Exam (elaborations) ATI Leadership Prediction Questions 2022 40 Questions & 100% Correct Answers

ATI Leadership Prediction Questions 2022 40 Questions & 100% Correct Answers 1. A nurse is orienting a newly licensed nurse to the procedure involved in obtaining informed consent. The nurse knows informed consent is based on the ethical principle of - autonomy. 2. By the middle of a shift, two of the three nurses working have gone home ill, leaving the nursing unit short staffed. Which of the following is the most appropriate action for the charge nurse? - Call the nursing supervisor and request additional staff. 3. Which of the following observations made by a nurse should be reported to the nurse manager as a violation against HIPPA? - Talking about clients with other nurses in the cafeteria 4. An RN is part of a team that consists of a licensed practicval nurse (LPN) and an assistive personnel (AP). One of the clients the team is assigned to care for has a small bowel obstruction and is NPO with a nasogastric (NG) tube set to continuous drainage. Which of the following tasks must be retained by the RN? - Assess for bowel sounds every 2 hr. 5. A nurse manager calls a meeting of the unit's staff members to discuss cost containment issues. The nurse manager has asked for member input regarding strategies that might help reduce costs. The nurse understands that this is an example of which of the following types of leadership? - Democratic 6. A client receiving care from a home health nurse asks what is included in a living will. The nurse explains that a living will is a document that - allows the client to express personal wishes regarding health care decisions 7. A nurse is completing a variance (or incident) report after administering an incorrect dose of medication to a client, even though the client experienced no ill effects from the error. The nurse should understand that the purpose of completing the variance report is to - identify situations that contribute to the occurrence of mediation errors. 8. An assistive personnel (AP) who appears to be under the influence of alcohol reports to duty on the night shift. Which of the following is an appropriate response by the charge nurse? - Ask the nursing supervisor to observe the AP and validate the charge nurse's suspicions.9. A nurse is concerned that some of the behaviors of the night charge nurse seem to be unprofessional. The charge nurse repeatedly asks the nurse for assistance with client care and brushes up against the nurse during the completion of the tasks. One night, the charge nurse asks the nurse to go out on a date and indicates that a sexual relationship between them would mean a better schedule for the nurse. The first action that the nurse should take in this situation is to - tell the charge nurse in clear terms that this conduct is causing feelings of discomfort and that the behaviors are to stop immediately. 10. An adult client who has an injury that requires immediate surgical intervention is being transferred from a small, rural hospital to a Level I emergency department. The client has been medicated during transport with intravenous meperidine (Demerol). The receiving nurse understands that consent for the surgery - should be obtained from a relative of the client 11. A nurse manager believes that a nurse is taking breaks that are too frequent and too length. Which of the following is an assertive statement that the charge nurse should use to initiate discussion of the issue? - "I understand that you are allowed to take scheduled breaks during each shift, but I have noticed that you are taking more than the number allocated. I would like to schedule a time when we could discuss this behavior." 12. A client in a long term care facility falls out of bed, fracturing the left hip. The side rails on the bed were not raised at bedtime, although this client was identified to be at risk for falling. The nurse recognizes this incident as an example of - negligence. 13. A nurse obtains blood samples for type and cross match from two clients who are both scheduled for surgical procedures in the morning. Later in the shift, the nurse becomes concerned that the labels on the specimens may have been accidentally switched. Due to the nature of the procedures, the nurse believes that neither client I likely to require a transfusion. Which of the following is an appropriate nursing action at this time? - Redraw both specimens, label them, and inform the blood bank of the possible error. 14. While making a client's bed, a nurse finds a capsule of medication in the sheets. Which of the following actions by the nurse are consistent with safe nursing practice? (Select all that apply). - Notifying the provider of the missed dose. Determining what medication the capsule contains. Documenting the missed dose of medication on the client's MAR.15. An assistive personnel (AP) is floated to the emergency department due to unexpected staff absences. The AP has never been assigned to the emergency department before and finds it to be extremely busy with multiple clients waiting to be seen. Which of the following is an appropriate assignment for the charge nurse to give to the AP? - Escort clients from the emergency department to other areas of the hospital for tests. 16. Which of the following situations, encountered by a nurse, requires the completion of a variance report? - The discovery that a preoperative client has received and eaten breakfast. 17. A nurse is delegating a client care task to an assistive personnel (AP). Which of the following is an appropriately stated direction? - "This client needs to ambulate using a walker three times today