1.A 13-year-old female adolescent tells the charge nurse in the pediatric unit that she does not
want a male nurse assigned to care for her. Which of the following responses should the
nurse make? "I'll change the assignment so a female nurse is caring for you today."
2. A charge nurse is providing teaching to a new staff nurse about the management of a team
consisting of a licensed practical nurse (LPN) and an assistive personnel (AP). Which of the
following pieces of information should the charge nurse include in the teaching? The nurse
should be familiar with the task she plans to delegate.
3.A client who is postoperative has a hemoglobin of 8.0 g/dL. The nurse delegates the
administration of a unit of packed red blood cells for this client to a nurse floating from a
psychiatric unit. Which of the following nursing actions is appropriate for the nurse to take at
this time? Decline to hang the blood
4.A group of nurses on a telemetry unit informs a nurse manager of a need to update the
cardiac monitoring system to improve arrhythmia detection. Which of the following
responses should the nurse manager make? "This purchase will need to be addressed in
the capital budget plan for the unit."
5.A home health care nurse is conducting a home hazard assessment. For which of the
following finding should the nurse intervene? The clients household lamps have 40 watt
light bulbs
6.A new nurse manager on a busy oncology unit keeps her office door closed when she is in the
office, not offering to help resolve daily staffing issues, and not scheduling any staff
meetings. Which of the following types of leadership behavior is the nurse manager
displaying? Laissez-faire
7.A nurse enters a client's room and discovers a small fire in a trash can. Which of the
following actions should the nurse take first? Move the client out of the room
8.A nurse enters the room of an older adult client and finds him attempting to crawl over the
side rail. Which of the following actions should the nurse take? Ask an assistive personnel
to sit with the client
9.A nurse finds a client standing next to his bed with the side rails up. The client is visibly
confused and not wearing an identification bracelet, and his IV is detached. The client states,
"I can't remember my name." After assisting the client back into bed, which of the following
actions should the nurse take next? Assess the client for injury.
10.A nurse from a facility's float pool receives an assignment to float on a nursing unit. The float
nurse tells the charge nurse that she has never worked on this unit before. How should the
charge nurse respond? "I will assign you to work with a registered nurse on the unit who
is experienced and will act as a resource for you."
11.A nurse has several tasks to complete to prepare a client scheduled for surgery. Which of the
following tasks can the nurse delegate to an assistive personnel (AP)? Assist with placing
the client onto the stretcher for transport to the surgical suite.