1. A newly licensed nurse is assigned to an experienced nurse for training on a medical unit
of a hospital. What type of nurse-to-nurse collaboration does this assignment demonstrate?
a. Interprofessional
b. Shared governance
c. Interorganizational
d. Mentoring - ANS-ANS: D
Mentoring is a collaborative partnership between a novice nurse and an expert nurse to help
transition a nurse through career development, personal growth, and socialization into the
profession. Interprofessional collaboration is working with several disciplines. Shared
Governance is a type of management for nursing. Interorganizational collaboration often
includes teams from inside and outside an organization to meet a common goal.
\1. Which activities are appropriate for the nurse to collaborate with a patient? (Select all that
apply.)
a. Prescribing a new medication dose
b. Health promotion activities
c. End-of-life comfort decisions
d. Interpreting laboratory results
e. Lifestyle changes to improve health - ANS-ANS: B, C, E
Nurses should include patients and their families when exploring health promotion activities,
end-of-life decisions, lifestyle changes, and treatment options. Prescribed medication doses
are initiated by educated professionals, although the patient gives feedback on the
effectiveness of medications. Patients are not trained to interpret lab results, but patients rely
on health professionals to explain results to them.
\2. The nurse is presenting an in-service on the importance of collaborative communication.
The nurse includes which critical event identified by the Joint Commission as an outcome of
poor communication among healthcare team members?
a. The occurrence of a patient event resulting in death or serious injury
b. Decreased ability to document expenses of care provided
c. Longer time to begin surgical cases
d. Increased time to discharge patients to outpatient care - ANS-ANS: A
The Joint Commission has identified that poor communication is the primary factor in the
occurrence of sentinel events, or events resulting in unintended death or serious injury to
patients. Lack of documentation, longer time to begin surgery, and increased delays in
discharge all contribute to the management of health care, but do not result in critical patient
outcomes.
\4. A registered nurse (RN) is reviewing the concept of collaboration. Which statement
correctly describes the RN nursing' role in collaboration?
a. State boards of nursing mandate that collaboration can only occur in hospitals.
b. Collaboration should occur only with physicians.
c. Collaboration occurs only between nurses with the same level of education.
d. Collaboration may occur in health-related research. - ANS-ANS: D
LPNs collaborate with many different persons, including patients, managers, educators, and
researchers. Collaboration does not occur only with physicians or nurses of equivalent
educational background, but with anyone who is working toward meeting patient goals.
Collaboration occurs in any healthcare setting as well as community and home settings.
of a hospital. What type of nurse-to-nurse collaboration does this assignment demonstrate?
a. Interprofessional
b. Shared governance
c. Interorganizational
d. Mentoring - ANS-ANS: D
Mentoring is a collaborative partnership between a novice nurse and an expert nurse to help
transition a nurse through career development, personal growth, and socialization into the
profession. Interprofessional collaboration is working with several disciplines. Shared
Governance is a type of management for nursing. Interorganizational collaboration often
includes teams from inside and outside an organization to meet a common goal.
\1. Which activities are appropriate for the nurse to collaborate with a patient? (Select all that
apply.)
a. Prescribing a new medication dose
b. Health promotion activities
c. End-of-life comfort decisions
d. Interpreting laboratory results
e. Lifestyle changes to improve health - ANS-ANS: B, C, E
Nurses should include patients and their families when exploring health promotion activities,
end-of-life decisions, lifestyle changes, and treatment options. Prescribed medication doses
are initiated by educated professionals, although the patient gives feedback on the
effectiveness of medications. Patients are not trained to interpret lab results, but patients rely
on health professionals to explain results to them.
\2. The nurse is presenting an in-service on the importance of collaborative communication.
The nurse includes which critical event identified by the Joint Commission as an outcome of
poor communication among healthcare team members?
a. The occurrence of a patient event resulting in death or serious injury
b. Decreased ability to document expenses of care provided
c. Longer time to begin surgical cases
d. Increased time to discharge patients to outpatient care - ANS-ANS: A
The Joint Commission has identified that poor communication is the primary factor in the
occurrence of sentinel events, or events resulting in unintended death or serious injury to
patients. Lack of documentation, longer time to begin surgery, and increased delays in
discharge all contribute to the management of health care, but do not result in critical patient
outcomes.
\4. A registered nurse (RN) is reviewing the concept of collaboration. Which statement
correctly describes the RN nursing' role in collaboration?
a. State boards of nursing mandate that collaboration can only occur in hospitals.
b. Collaboration should occur only with physicians.
c. Collaboration occurs only between nurses with the same level of education.
d. Collaboration may occur in health-related research. - ANS-ANS: D
LPNs collaborate with many different persons, including patients, managers, educators, and
researchers. Collaboration does not occur only with physicians or nurses of equivalent
educational background, but with anyone who is working toward meeting patient goals.
Collaboration occurs in any healthcare setting as well as community and home settings.
