HESI Case Study - Management of a Surgical Unit questions with correct answers

How should Ms. Hatch respond to this situation? CORRECT ANSWER Request that a night shift staff RN go to the room to evaluate the situation. The night charge nurse states "That UAP is incompetent." As the day shit charge nurse, how should Ms. Hatch respond? CORRECT ANSWER Your concern needs to be addressed with the unit manager In making initial client care assignments, which client can be assigned to a PN, rather than an RN? CORRECT ANSWER A 2-day postoperative client with an abdominal incision and a Jackson-Pratt drain. A day shift nurse will be 30min late. How should the nurse's client care assignments be manages until the nurse arrives? CORRECT ANSWER Assign an additional client to each of the day shift staff nurses Which additional client should be assigned to the same PN? A client: CORRECT ANSWER Experiencing hypo active bowel sounds on the second postoperative day after a colon resection. (As this is a expected finding.) When making initial rounds, the charge nurse should see which client first? CORRECT ANSWER A postoperative client with a tracheostomy who has signs of a tracheoesophageal fistula. Client with syncope needs to go to bathroom, and... How should the charge nurse respond to this information? CORRECT ANSWER Asses the client with the possible fistula while the PN assists the other client to the restroom