1. A nurse is preparing to witness informed consent for a Have you discussed
oth-
client who is preoperative. The client asks the nurse, er treatments with your
"Are there other options besides surgery?"
Which of the following responses should the provider?
nurse make?
"It is time to sign the consent so your treatment can
begin."
"I would not have this type of surgery if I were you."
"Have you discussed other treatments with your
provider?"
"I can inform the surgeon you do not want the
surgery."
2. A nurse on a quality control committee is evaluat-
ing the results of recently implemented measures de-
signed to reduce client medications errors. Which
Compare the number of
of the following methods should the nurse use to
evalu- ate the success of the changes? medication errors
Establish a benchmark to identify a standard of perfor- before and after the
mance. action was
Compare the number of medication errors before and
after the action was implemented. implemented
Provide the staff with a questionnaire to quantify staff
satisfaction with the changes.
Conduct a study about the time and money costs of
implementing the change.
3. A nurse intercepts a messenger at the nurses'
station
my responsibility to re-
who has a flower delivery for a client on the unit. As the mind you that we
have to nurse accepts the flowers, the messenger says, "I know respect our
clients' privacy Ms. Welch from the neighborhood. What happened
to her?" Which of the following responses should
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the nurse make?