Leadership Review. Quiz Repertoire Inquiries and Solutions (Updated Edition)

A client with diabetes and a history of coronary artery disease who is complaining of increased shortness of breath. A nurse (RN), practical nurse (PN), and unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) are working as a team to provide care for an acutely ill client requiring immediate bedside insertion of a chest tube. Which assignment is best use of each persons skills? The UAP obtains an oxygen saturation level while the RN reports findings to healthcare provider. An older woman with a long history of hypertension is transferred from a long-term care facility to the hospital intensive care unit because of an exacerbation of heart failure (HF). She has a signed and witnessed "do not resuscitate" from in her record. Which action should the nurse take? Confirm current resuscitation wishes with client and family. A healthcare provider notifies the nurse that new prescriptions have been written for a client. Which is the 1st action the nurse should implement? Read all of the new prescriptions for the client written by the provider The nurse assigns unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) to apply sequential compression devices to a client. Which instruction should the nurse include when assigning this task to the UAP? Report any change in color in the client's feet or legs. It is most important to assign which client to a registered nurse rather than a practical nurse? After ambulating, a postoperative client grimaces and reports incisional pain at a "9" on a point scale.