N588 Exam 3 Questions With Correct
Answers
A framework that divides work within an organization and designates
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points of authority, responsibility, accountability, and non decision-
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making support = - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-organizational structure
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Organizational structure affects _____________, which affects
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outcomes, which affects _____________ - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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processes
money
The RN is planning the care for his group of patients for the day. Which
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is the most appropriate assignment for an unlicensed assistive
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personnel (UAP)? |
•A. A patient requiring a colostomy irrigation
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•B. A patient receiving continuous tube feedings
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•C. A patient who requires urine specimen collections
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•D. A patient with difficulty swallowing food and fluids - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-•C. A patient who requires urine specimen collections
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,•The RN is giving a bed bath to an assigned patient when an UAP enters
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the patient's room and tells the nurse that another assigned patient
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needs something for pain. What is the most appropriate nursing action?
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•A. Finish the bed bath and then administer the pain med.
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•B. Ask the UAP to find out when the last pain med was given to the
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patient.
•C. Ask the UAP to tell the patient in pain that a pain med will be given
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as soon as the bath is completed.
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•D. Cover the patient, raise the side rails, tell the patient that you will
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return shortly, then administer the pain med to the other patient. -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•D. Cover the patient, raise the side rails, tell the
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patient that you will return shortly, then administer the pain med to the
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other patient.
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•The nurse employed in a long-term care facility is planning
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assignments for the patients on a nursing unit. The nurse needs to
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assign four patients and has a LPN and three UAP's on a nursing team.
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Which patient would the nurse most appropriately assign to the LPN?
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•A. A patient who requires a bed bath
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•B. An older patient requiring frequent ambulation
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•C. A patient who requires hourly vital sign measurements
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,•D. A patient who requires abdominal wound irrigations and dressing
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changes every 3 hours - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•D. A patient who
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requires abdominal wound irrigations and dressing changes every 3
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hours
•The nurse should use which guideline(s) to plan delegation and
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assignment-making activities? (Select all that apply.) | | | | |
•A. Ensuring patient safety
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•B. Requests from the staff
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•C. The clustering of rooms on the unit
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•D. The number of anticipated discharges
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•E. Patient needs and workers' needs and abilities - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-A, E |
•A nurse is delegating patient care assignments for the shift. Which is
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appropriate for the RN to delegate to the UAP?
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•A. Providing a dressing change
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•B. Evaluating pain relief after administering pain medication
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•C. Collecting I & O
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•D. Selecting a menu for a low-sodium diet - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•C.
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Collecting I & O | | |
, •The RN is preparing assignments for the day shift. Which of the
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following patients should the nurse assign to the LPN?
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•A. A patient with chronic renal failure who is being admitted to
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undergo peritoneal dialysis.
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•B. A patient with angina whose laboratory findings for cardiac enzymes
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are pending.
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•C. A patient who has a pleural effusion and bilateral chest tubes.
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•D. A patient who is two days postop following a hip replacement. -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•D. A patient who is two days postop following a
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hip replacement.
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•Which of following patients are appropriate for the RN to assign to a
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LPN? Select all that apply.
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•A. A patient who needs to ambulate for the first time after a
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thoracotomy.
•B. A patient who needs pre-op teaching before a skin graft.
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•C. A new patient who needs an admission assessment.
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•D. A patient who has a unit of whole blood that has been infusing for 1
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hour.
•E. A patient who has a repeat bone marrow biopsy scheduled for
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tomorrow - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A, D, E
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Answers
A framework that divides work within an organization and designates
| | | | | | | | | |
points of authority, responsibility, accountability, and non decision-
| | | | | | |
making support = - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-organizational structure
| | | | | |
Organizational structure affects _____________, which affects
| | | | | |
outcomes, which affects _____________ - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
| | | | | |
processes
money
The RN is planning the care for his group of patients for the day. Which
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
is the most appropriate assignment for an unlicensed assistive
| | | | | | | | |
personnel (UAP)? |
•A. A patient requiring a colostomy irrigation
| | | | | |
•B. A patient receiving continuous tube feedings
| | | | | |
•C. A patient who requires urine specimen collections
| | | | | | |
•D. A patient with difficulty swallowing food and fluids - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-•C. A patient who requires urine specimen collections
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,•The RN is giving a bed bath to an assigned patient when an UAP enters
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
the patient's room and tells the nurse that another assigned patient
| | | | | | | | | | |
needs something for pain. What is the most appropriate nursing action?
| | | | | | | | | |
•A. Finish the bed bath and then administer the pain med.
| | | | | | | | | |
•B. Ask the UAP to find out when the last pain med was given to the
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
patient.
•C. Ask the UAP to tell the patient in pain that a pain med will be given
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
as soon as the bath is completed.
| | | | | |
•D. Cover the patient, raise the side rails, tell the patient that you will
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
return shortly, then administer the pain med to the other patient. -
| | | | | | | | | | | |
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•D. Cover the patient, raise the side rails, tell the
| | | | | | | | | |
patient that you will return shortly, then administer the pain med to the
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
other patient.
| |
•The nurse employed in a long-term care facility is planning
| | | | | | | | | |
assignments for the patients on a nursing unit. The nurse needs to
| | | | | | | | | | | |
assign four patients and has a LPN and three UAP's on a nursing team.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Which patient would the nurse most appropriately assign to the LPN?
| | | | | | | | | |
•A. A patient who requires a bed bath
| | | | | | |
•B. An older patient requiring frequent ambulation
| | | | | |
•C. A patient who requires hourly vital sign measurements
| | | | | | | |
,•D. A patient who requires abdominal wound irrigations and dressing
| | | | | | | | | |
changes every 3 hours - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•D. A patient who
| | | | | | | | | |
requires abdominal wound irrigations and dressing changes every 3
| | | | | | | | |
hours
•The nurse should use which guideline(s) to plan delegation and
| | | | | | | | | |
assignment-making activities? (Select all that apply.) | | | | |
•A. Ensuring patient safety
| | |
•B. Requests from the staff
| | | |
•C. The clustering of rooms on the unit
| | | | | | |
•D. The number of anticipated discharges
| | | | |
•E. Patient needs and workers' needs and abilities - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-A, E |
•A nurse is delegating patient care assignments for the shift. Which is
| | | | | | | | | | | |
appropriate for the RN to delegate to the UAP?
| | | | | | | |
•A. Providing a dressing change
| | | |
•B. Evaluating pain relief after administering pain medication
| | | | | | |
•C. Collecting I & O
| | | |
•D. Selecting a menu for a low-sodium diet - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•C.
| | | | | | | | | | |
Collecting I & O | | |
, •The RN is preparing assignments for the day shift. Which of the
| | | | | | | | | | | |
following patients should the nurse assign to the LPN?
| | | | | | | |
•A. A patient with chronic renal failure who is being admitted to
| | | | | | | | | | | |
undergo peritoneal dialysis.
| |
•B. A patient with angina whose laboratory findings for cardiac enzymes
| | | | | | | | | |
are pending.
| |
•C. A patient who has a pleural effusion and bilateral chest tubes.
| | | | | | | | | | |
•D. A patient who is two days postop following a hip replacement. -
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•D. A patient who is two days postop following a
| | | | | | | | | |
hip replacement.
| |
•Which of following patients are appropriate for the RN to assign to a
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
LPN? Select all that apply.
| | | |
•A. A patient who needs to ambulate for the first time after a
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
thoracotomy.
•B. A patient who needs pre-op teaching before a skin graft.
| | | | | | | | | |
•C. A new patient who needs an admission assessment.
| | | | | | | |
•D. A patient who has a unit of whole blood that has been infusing for 1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
hour.
•E. A patient who has a repeat bone marrow biopsy scheduled for
| | | | | | | | | | | |
tomorrow - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A, D, E
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