NR 446 Exam 2 Collaborative Study
Questions with Verified Answers 2025
Factors to consider when assigning client rooms? -Correct Answers ✔-condition
and care of client needed, specific needs (cardiac monitoring, mechanical
ventilation), special precautions (isolation, falls, seizures), dressing changes
What are some factors of the Health Care Team? -Correct Answers ✔-knowledge
and skill of team members, amount of supervision necessary, staffing mix (RN,
PN, AP), nurse-client ratios, experience with similar clients
What should the nurse do when they receive an unsafe assignment? -Correct
Answers ✔-1. bring the unsafe assignment to the attention of scheduling/charge
nurse
2. if no resolution happens, take concern up chain of command
3. if satisfactory resolution is still not happening, nurse should file written protest
to the assignment (ADO, DOPS) with approp. administer
4. failure to accept the assignment without following proper channels can be
considered client abandonment
should a client on airborne precautions be in a private room? -Correct Answers ✔-
yes
when can a client on drop/contact precautions share a room? -Correct Answers ✔--
same active infection with same micro-organisms
-remain 3 feet away from each other
-clients have no other existing infections
In which clients is a private room preferred? -Correct Answers ✔-agitation,
dementia, wandering, those who require quiet environment (risk ICP/stroke/TBI),
sensory overload, acutely ill (NG/IV/ET) or reduced cognitive function, and near
death
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Who needs their own room? -Correct Answers ✔-isolation precautions,
transgendered, end of life, neutropenia and chemotherapy
Who can be paired together? -Correct Answers ✔-males with males, females with
females, similar disease processes
Who cannot be paired together? -Correct Answers ✔-males with females,
infections with new surgeries
When assigning RN's to different clients, what should you take into consideration?
-Correct Answers ✔--types of patients they normally care for
-what experience are they lacking (education, disease processes, care for
complicated patients, care for complicated skills)
what is the level of competence directly related to? -Correct Answers ✔-length of
time in practice and exposure to clinical situations
what happens to level of competence when nurses move to a different clinical
setting? -Correct Answers ✔-they return to a lower stage because of acquisition of
new skills and knowledge
Which clients should be assigned to LPN? -Correct Answers ✔-stable, cannot take
care of new clients or if there is a change in status, pare them with clients that are
most like their experience
What can the LPN do in terms of assessment? -Correct Answers ✔-assess and
monitoring but not the initial or if there is change
What can the LPN do in terms of diagnosis? -Correct Answers ✔-only help RN
what can LPN do in terms of planning? -Correct Answers ✔-only help RN
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