ATI leadership
Leading and Managing Client Care: Evaluating Performance of a Newly Licensed Nurse
- (correct Answer) - -Assigning is the process of transferring the authority,
accountability, and responsibility of client care to another member of the health
care team.
-Delegating is the process of transferring the authority and responsibility to
another team member to complete a task, while retaining the accountability.
-Supervising is the process of directing, monitoring, and evaluating the
performance of tasks by another member of the health care team.
-Nurses must delegate appropriately and supervise adequately to ensure that clients
receive safe, quality care.
reference: chapter 1: Leading and Managing Client Care
Leading and Managing Client Care: Priority Intervention for Incorrect Transfer
Technique - (correct Answer) - -Monitor performance.
-Provide feedback.
-Intervene if necessary (unsafe clinical practice).
reference: chapter 1: Leading and Managing Client Care
Leading and Managing Client Care: Appropriate Assignment During Orientation -
(correct Answer) - -Unsafe assignments are those that Assign the nurse to care for
an excessive number of clients or a mix including too many clients with high
acuity.
-Assign the nurse to care for clients in specialty areas where the nurse lacks the
knowledge, skills, and ability to provide safe and competent care.
-When a nurse receives an unsafe assignment, they should take the following
actions, Bring the unsafe assignment to the attention of the scheduling/charge
nurse and negotiate a new assignment
reference: chapter 1: Leading and Managing Client Care
Professional Practice: Responding to Client Request for Medical Records - (correct
Answer) - -pt has right to see medical record promptly
- this right is secured through HIPPA
- can be paper or online record
reference Chapter 3: Professional Practice
Professional Practice: Treatment Decision - (correct Answer) - -Ethical theory
analyzes varying philosophies, systems, ideas, and principles used to make
judgments about what is right and wrong, good and bad.
-Utilitarianism (teleological theory): Decision-making based on what provides the
greatest good for the greatest number of individuals
-Deontological theory: Decision-making based on obligations, duty, and what one
considers to be right or wrong
reference: Chapter 3: Professional Practice
Professional Practice: Identifying a Breach of Confidentiality - (correct Answer) -
-Quasi-Intentional Torts
-Invasion of privacy: Intrusion into a client's private affairs or a breach of
confidentiality
-e.g., a nurse releases the medical diagnosis of a client to a member of the press
reference: Chapter 3: Professional Practice
Professional Practice: Reviewing HIPAA Guidelines - (correct Answer) - -federal
regulations have a great impact on nursing practice. -Some of the federal laws
affecting nursing practice include the following.
-Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
-Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
reference: Chapter 3: Professional Practice
postoperative Nursing Care: Assessing Needed Equipment for a Client Who Has
Dysphagia - (correct Answer) - keep emergency equipment at the bedside
-resuscitation bag
-suction equipment
reference: Chapter 97: Postoperative Nursing Care
Leading and Managing Client Care: Resolving Staff Conflict - (correct Answer) - -
Leading and Managing Client Care: Evaluating Performance of a Newly Licensed Nurse
- (correct Answer) - -Assigning is the process of transferring the authority,
accountability, and responsibility of client care to another member of the health
care team.
-Delegating is the process of transferring the authority and responsibility to
another team member to complete a task, while retaining the accountability.
-Supervising is the process of directing, monitoring, and evaluating the
performance of tasks by another member of the health care team.
-Nurses must delegate appropriately and supervise adequately to ensure that clients
receive safe, quality care.
reference: chapter 1: Leading and Managing Client Care
Leading and Managing Client Care: Priority Intervention for Incorrect Transfer
Technique - (correct Answer) - -Monitor performance.
-Provide feedback.
-Intervene if necessary (unsafe clinical practice).
reference: chapter 1: Leading and Managing Client Care
Leading and Managing Client Care: Appropriate Assignment During Orientation -
(correct Answer) - -Unsafe assignments are those that Assign the nurse to care for
an excessive number of clients or a mix including too many clients with high
acuity.
-Assign the nurse to care for clients in specialty areas where the nurse lacks the
knowledge, skills, and ability to provide safe and competent care.
-When a nurse receives an unsafe assignment, they should take the following
actions, Bring the unsafe assignment to the attention of the scheduling/charge
nurse and negotiate a new assignment
reference: chapter 1: Leading and Managing Client Care
Professional Practice: Responding to Client Request for Medical Records - (correct
Answer) - -pt has right to see medical record promptly
- this right is secured through HIPPA
- can be paper or online record
reference Chapter 3: Professional Practice
Professional Practice: Treatment Decision - (correct Answer) - -Ethical theory
analyzes varying philosophies, systems, ideas, and principles used to make
judgments about what is right and wrong, good and bad.
-Utilitarianism (teleological theory): Decision-making based on what provides the
greatest good for the greatest number of individuals
-Deontological theory: Decision-making based on obligations, duty, and what one
considers to be right or wrong
reference: Chapter 3: Professional Practice
Professional Practice: Identifying a Breach of Confidentiality - (correct Answer) -
-Quasi-Intentional Torts
-Invasion of privacy: Intrusion into a client's private affairs or a breach of
confidentiality
-e.g., a nurse releases the medical diagnosis of a client to a member of the press
reference: Chapter 3: Professional Practice
Professional Practice: Reviewing HIPAA Guidelines - (correct Answer) - -federal
regulations have a great impact on nursing practice. -Some of the federal laws
affecting nursing practice include the following.
-Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
-Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
reference: Chapter 3: Professional Practice
postoperative Nursing Care: Assessing Needed Equipment for a Client Who Has
Dysphagia - (correct Answer) - keep emergency equipment at the bedside
-resuscitation bag
-suction equipment
reference: Chapter 97: Postoperative Nursing Care
Leading and Managing Client Care: Resolving Staff Conflict - (correct Answer) - -
