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Chapter 01: Overview of Professional Nursing Concepts for Medical-Surgical Nursing
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1. A new nurse is working with a preceptor on a medical-surgical unit. The preceptor advises the
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new nurse that which is the priority when working as a professional nurse?
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All actions are appropriate for the professional nurse. However, ensuring client safety is the
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priority.Healthcareerrorshave been widely reported
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client injury, death, and increased health care costs. There are several national and
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nurse has the responsibility to guard the client’s safety. The other actions are important for
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quality nursing, but they are not as vital as providing safety. Not making medication errors does
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provide safety, but is too narrow in scope to be the best answer.
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DIF: Understanding
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MSC: Client Needs Category: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control
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2. Anurse is orienting a new client and family to t h e m e d i c a l - surgical unit. What information
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does the nurse provide to best help the client promote his or her own safety?
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b. Have the client monitor hand hygiene in caregivers.
c. Offer the family the opportunity to stay with the client.
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Each action could be important for the client or family to perform. However, encouraging the
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client to be active in his or her health care as a safety partner is the most critical. The other
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actions are very limited in scope and do not provide the broad protection that being active and
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involved does. vuvb
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3. A nurse is caring for a postoperative client on the surgical unit. The client’s blood pressure
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was 142/76 mm Hg 30 minutes ago, and now is 88/50 mm Hg. What action would the nurse
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but this is not more important than calling the RRT. The client’s blood pressure would be
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c. Tells the client and family about all upcoming tests.
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holistic or “whole-person” approach to care. By assessing the effect of the client’s culture on
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health care, this nurse is practicing client-focused care. Providing for basic needs does not
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demonstrate this competence. Simply telling the client about all upcoming tests is not
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safety measure, but not directly related to demonstrating client-centered care.
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5. A client is going to be admitted for a scheduled surgical procedure. Which action does the
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nurse explain is the most important thing the client can do to protect against errors?
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Medication reconciliation is a formal process in which the client’s actual current medications are
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compared to the prescribed medications at the time of admission, transfer, or discharge. This
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National client Safety Goal is important to reduce medication errors. The client would not have
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to be responsible for providers washing their hands, and even if the client does so, this is too
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narrow to be the most important action to prevent errors. Keeping the provider’s phone number
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