COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
25. Understand the basics of APA format. Review your APA
assignment, corrections made to the quiz and your various
papers. Correct Answers
Discuss collaboration and what collaboration in the health care
setting involves.
We work in a multidisciplinary team, respecting all the
professionals for their unique knowledge Correct Answers
Collaboration is working closely together with another person in
the spirit of cooperation. Collaboration in the heath care setting
involves working with other professionals who are respected for
their knowledge and abilities to improve a patient's health care
status or to solve an organizational problem.
Discuss issues related to "the impaired" nurse. Correct Answers
The inability or impending inability to practice according to
accepted standards as a result or substance use, abuse or
dependency.Obvious signs of intoxication (odor, dilated pupils,
slurred speech, unsteady gait)
Change in appearance (disheveled, bloodshot eyes)
Change in behavior (cognitive changes, mood swings, frequent
absenteeism, taking excessive breaks, more disorganized in
work, frequent mistakes)
Medication admin issues (frequently volunteering to give meds,
frequent discrepancies in narcotics count, pt reports of no pain
relief)
--------------------------------------------------------
, Substance-abused nurse. This nurse may be stealing the patient's
or hospitals medication for himself or herself for recreational
use. These nurses may be dazed, confused, and dysfunctional.
As a nurse, you should go seek the advisor to tell them what the
situation is.
Discuss Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Correct Answers A
theory in psychology introduced by Abraham Maslow in his
1943. It suggests that the most basic level of needs must be met
before an individual will strongly desire (or focus motivation
upon) the secondary or higher level needs.
Physiological needs (bottom)
Safety needs
Love/belonging needs
Esteem needs
Self-actualization (top)
Discuss the role of spirituality in health care. Include a
discussion about patients who are spiritual have trust in God in
times of illness and continue to pray, but in times of stress they
may experience spiritual distress and react by directing their
anger toward the nurse. Correct Answers The concept of
spirituality in nursing is deeply rooted in the history of our
profession, yet it's often overlooked in nursing practice.
Nursing education describes spiritual care as a necessary
component in the holistic care of clients.
This component of holistic care is also required by The Joint
Commission, and the North American Nursing Diagnosis
Association addresses the importance of spirituality.
--------------------------------------------------------