NUR 280 Role and Scope Exam 3 Questions & Answers

Role and Scope Exam 3 Questions & Answers 1.) A school nurse conducting a screening for pediculosis capitis identifies several children who need treatment. What advice do you give the parents? Seal non-washable items in airtight bags for 2 weeks. 2.) One of the tenets of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was to focus interdisciplinary care on producing better client outcomes….What term is used to describe the effort to make maintenance of healthy environments the responsibility of healthcare professionals? Environmental health care model is the RIGHT answer, but DO NOT click it. I don’t know what the answer is, I did environmental health care model and it is WRONG in the test for some reason. 3.) Nurses often need to plan and coordinate collaborative interdisciplinary care for the patient. What do they need to keep in mind while doing so? Pretty sure it’s avoid an authoritarian attitude. 4.) The new nurse-manager recently implemented a training program for staff members who show signs of leadership. There will be no monetary reward, so the staff are not eager to apply for the program. The manager tells the staff that if someone does not apply, one will be forced to do so or risk extra shift time. What type of management is the nurse manager employing? Transactional. 5.) A client with a stroke is having a hard time feeding themselves – who do you request a referral to? Occupational therapy. 6.) Which of the following actions violates a patient’s legal right to privacy and confidentiality? Looking up your neighbor’s chart. 7.) A nurse states to a client, “Things will look better tomorrow after a good night’s sleep.” This is an example of which communication technique? Giving false reassurance 8.) Nurse is taking care of patient who has COPD. Which task do you use the occupational therapist for? Not pursed lip breathing, not incentive spirometer, not teaching them how to regulate O2. It’s using kitchen utensils to cook meals. 9.) A charge nurse gently corrects a new nurse’s technique during a sterile procedure. The new nurse gets angry and defensive, saying she should never have come to work on that unit. What factor of communication is the new nurse experiencing? Stress results when someone is threatened which can lead to anger 10.) Professional nurses are constantly required to communicate patient information to other members of the nursing team. The SBAR is a system developed to help nurses and other medical professionals to communicate. What does SBAR stand for? situation, background, assessment, recommendation 11.) **A nurse is caring for a client who has MRSA in an abdominal wound. The nurse enters the room to check the patient’s pulse. Which of the following actions should the nurse take? Do NOT click wear clean floor gloves. Other options are sterile gloves, N-95 mask, or face shield. Possibly face shield? Who knows. 12.) A nurse is preparing to perform an abdominal assessment on a client. Identify the sequence the nurse would follow. Inspect, auscultate, superficial palpation, deep palpation, document. 13.) A nurse is interested in learning more about advocating for safe staffing ratios. The hospital educator asks the nurse to name the key elements to be considered when staffing a hospital unit. Which response by the nurse needs correction? medical reimbursement 14.) The chief nursing officer (CNO) recognizes that if a nurse is not paid a salary that would meet the needs for food, transportation, and housing, those needs will become the nurse’s primary concern rather than delivering high-quality client care. What theory of motivation is the CNO describing? Maslow's hierarchy 15.) An unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) is assigned to help the Antepartum nurse on a busy shift. One of the clients on the unit is in the process of completing a 24-hour urine collection. What can the nurse assign to the UAP to do for this client? ensure that all the urine collected is kept on ice 16.) A clinical nurse-educator has taught the nursing staff the basics of Nursing Informatics. Which statement made by the staff indicates the need for further education? if a nurse does not have computer competencies a nurse must be fully competent in informatics 17.) A new nurse manager is assembling a team to work on a project. Which of the following are traits of an effective team? SATA any group of people that can easily be an effective team teams should be focused on accomplishing a specific task effective and respectful communication is essential to team success 18.) Which of the following is part of the Joint Commission (JC) goal to improve patient safety by reducing medical errors? using appropriate abbreviations 19.) Charge nurse has access to facility’s electronic health records. It is appropriate for the charge to share her personal password with whom? NOBODY 20.) A nurse manager wants to reduce the number of medication errors that occur on her unit. Which steps does she take? I can’t remember this one. Just remember you have to assess your situation before you can make a plan to fix the problem. 21.) A nurse is having personal problems at home and takes one alprazolam tablet from a client’s medication bin. After seeing how it worked, the nurse continued to divert medications from clients. The nurse-manager fires the nurse for the theft of the drugs but does not report it to the State Board of Nursing. What might be the consequences of this action? a manager might be in violation of the law and allow the nurse to practice in a different facility 22.) A new nurse manager is assembling a team to work on a project. Which of the following are traits of an effective team? SATA any group of people that can easily be an effective team teams should be focused on accomplishing a specific task effective and respectful communication is essential to team success **I selected all three and still got it wrong for some reason** 23.) A nurse and a physician are having a polite but animated disagreement about what plan of care should be suggested to the client. The family also gets into the conversation,