Professional Nursing Practice Environment Exam
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nursing shortages,
What are some workplace inappropriate staffing,
issues that nurses face? client safety and advocacy, and
workplace rights and safety.
Maintains that:
Nurses have a duty to care for clients in crises such as
pandemics
The American Nurses Employers have a duty to reduce the physical and
Association (ANA)'s Crisis emotional risks nurses face while supporting work-life
Standard of Care: COVID- balance to the greatest degree possible
19 Pandemic (2020a) Institutions have a responsibility to safeguard
employees through evidence-based policies and
practices that are "transparently decided and have
clear accountabilities"
The National Academies Recommends the level of care provided should
of Science, Engineering, involve the least difference between daily
and Medicine (NASEM) responsibilities and duties assigned during a surge
, States that "Nurses in management or administration
Provision 4 of ANA's Code should facilitate open communication with health care
of Ethics with Interpretive personnel allowing them, without fear of reprisal, to
Statements express concerns or even to refuse an assignment for
which they do not possess the requisite skill"
1. Identify mechanisms within health care
systems thatprovide opportunities for registered
nurses (RNs) to affect institutional policies.
2.Develop conflict resolution models for use within
organizations that address RNs' concerns about client
care and delivery issues.
Five Opportunities and 3.Seek legislative solutions for workplace problems
Challenges for Workforce by reviewing issues of concern to nurses in
Advocacy Programs employment settings and introducing appropriate
legislation
4.Develop legal centers for nurses that could provide
legal support and decision-making advice as a last
recourse to resolve workplace issues.
5.Provide RNs with self-advocacy and client
advocacy information
Which action by a Asking if the assignment is due to an emergency
medical-surgical nurse
represents acting in good
faith when receiving a
float assignment to the
pediatric unit?
Which component is Scope of work
contained in the workflow
design sector of the
Workforce Advocacy
Ecosystem Model?