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Defines the principles by which nurses' provide care to their clients - ANSWER ✔✔ The nurse
practices nursing in conformity with the code of ethics for professional registered nurses. This
code:
Assessment - ANSWER ✔✔ An 18-year-old woman is in the emergency department with fever
and cough. The physician asks the nurse to measure vital signs, auscultate lung sounds, listen to
heart sounds, determine the level of comfort, and collect blood and sputum samples for analysis.
The nurse is performing what aspect of practice?
Implementation - ANSWER ✔✔ A client is wheezing and short of breath. The physician orders
a medicated nebulizer treatment now and in 4 hours. The nurse is providing what aspect of care?
Advocate - ANSWER ✔✔ The nurse is caring for a client with end-stage lung disease. The
client wants to go home on oxygen therapy and be comfortable. The family wants the client to
undergo a new surgical procedure. The nurse explains the risk and benefits of the surgery to the
family and discusses the client's wishes with the family. The nurse is acting as the client's:
A problem-solving approach to clinical practice based on best practices - ANSWER ✔✔
Evidence-based practice is defined as:
Provides a minimal standard of knowledge for practice - ANSWER ✔✔ The examination for the
registered nurse (RN) licensure is exactly the same in every state in the United States. This
examination:
Function independently - ANSWER ✔✔ Advanced practice nurses (APNs) generally:
The client - ANSWER ✔✔ Nursing practice in the twenty-first century is an art and science that
is centered on:
Florence Nightingale - ANSWER ✔✔ Who acted to decrease mortality by improving sanitation
in the battlefields, which resulted in a decline in illness and infection?
Mary Mahoney - ANSWER ✔✔ The professional nurse responsible for increasing respect for
the individual and awareness of cultural diversity was:
Healthy People 2010 - ANSWER ✔✔ The document that developed goals and objectives to meet
the health of the public is known as: