LVN FUNDAMENTALS questions n
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autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire - correct answer ✔✔ What are the leadership styles?
democratic - correct answer ✔✔ What is the most effective management style in a health care
environment?
Laissez-faire
- A policy or attitude of letting things takes their own course without interfering - correct answer
✔✔ A nurse manager does not participate, but delegates the staff scheduling to the nurses on
the unit. What type of leadership is this?
Democratic - correct answer ✔✔ A nurse manager allows the staff nurses to participate in trial
use of new IV pumps and contribute input when choosing new product. What type of
leadership is this?
Authoritative - correct answer ✔✔ A nurse manager makes a decision for the staff to wear blue
scrubs without consulting the staff nurses. What type of leadership is this?
right person
right tasks
right circumstances
right direction and communication
right supervision and evaluation - correct answer ✔✔ 5 rights of delegation
,Activities of daily living
Ambulating
Feeding
Positioning
Vital signs (on stable clients)
Intake and output - correct answer ✔✔ tasks are most appropriately delegated to assistive
personnel (AP)
Tracheostomy care
Suctioning
Inserting urinary catheter
Checking nasogastric tube patency
Medication administration
Sterile specimen collection
Reinforcing client teaching - correct answer ✔✔ appropriate tasks can be delegated to an
LVN/LPN
Nursing process
Client education
Tasks that require nursing judgment
including care of unstable client. - correct answer ✔✔ tasks RN cannot delegate
Performs basic hygiene care and grooming
Reports to the LPN or RN
Provides assistance with ADLs
- nutrition, elimination, mobility
Performs basic skills: Vital Signs, Pulse Ox, I&O.
, Emphasis is on maintaining a safe environment and recognizing situations to report to
immediate superior.
Noninvasive skills and do not require sterile technique. - correct answer ✔✔ Skills of Assistive
Personnel (AP) or Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP)
Meets the health needs of a client
Care for clients whose condition is considered to be stable or chronic with expected outcome
Performs reinforcement teaching
Contributes to care plan through discussing client problems/findings with the RN
Calculates and monitors IV flow rate
Administer IVPB medications
Monitor IV fluids - correct answer ✔✔ Skills of LVN/LPN
* Air, breathing, Circulation
* Nursing Process (always assess first)
* Prioritize systemic before local (life b4 limb)
* Prioritize acute before chronic
*Prioritize Actual problems before potential future problems
* Prioritize according to Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
* Recognize and respond to trends vs. transient findings
* Recognize signs of emergencies and complications vs. expected findings
* Apply clinical knowledge to procedural standards to determine the priority action. - correct
answer ✔✔ Prioritization Principles in client care
Autonomy - correct answer ✔✔ The right to make one's own decisions
Beneficence - correct answer ✔✔ The obligation to do good for others.
answers rated A+ latest update
autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire - correct answer ✔✔ What are the leadership styles?
democratic - correct answer ✔✔ What is the most effective management style in a health care
environment?
Laissez-faire
- A policy or attitude of letting things takes their own course without interfering - correct answer
✔✔ A nurse manager does not participate, but delegates the staff scheduling to the nurses on
the unit. What type of leadership is this?
Democratic - correct answer ✔✔ A nurse manager allows the staff nurses to participate in trial
use of new IV pumps and contribute input when choosing new product. What type of
leadership is this?
Authoritative - correct answer ✔✔ A nurse manager makes a decision for the staff to wear blue
scrubs without consulting the staff nurses. What type of leadership is this?
right person
right tasks
right circumstances
right direction and communication
right supervision and evaluation - correct answer ✔✔ 5 rights of delegation
,Activities of daily living
Ambulating
Feeding
Positioning
Vital signs (on stable clients)
Intake and output - correct answer ✔✔ tasks are most appropriately delegated to assistive
personnel (AP)
Tracheostomy care
Suctioning
Inserting urinary catheter
Checking nasogastric tube patency
Medication administration
Sterile specimen collection
Reinforcing client teaching - correct answer ✔✔ appropriate tasks can be delegated to an
LVN/LPN
Nursing process
Client education
Tasks that require nursing judgment
including care of unstable client. - correct answer ✔✔ tasks RN cannot delegate
Performs basic hygiene care and grooming
Reports to the LPN or RN
Provides assistance with ADLs
- nutrition, elimination, mobility
Performs basic skills: Vital Signs, Pulse Ox, I&O.
, Emphasis is on maintaining a safe environment and recognizing situations to report to
immediate superior.
Noninvasive skills and do not require sterile technique. - correct answer ✔✔ Skills of Assistive
Personnel (AP) or Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP)
Meets the health needs of a client
Care for clients whose condition is considered to be stable or chronic with expected outcome
Performs reinforcement teaching
Contributes to care plan through discussing client problems/findings with the RN
Calculates and monitors IV flow rate
Administer IVPB medications
Monitor IV fluids - correct answer ✔✔ Skills of LVN/LPN
* Air, breathing, Circulation
* Nursing Process (always assess first)
* Prioritize systemic before local (life b4 limb)
* Prioritize acute before chronic
*Prioritize Actual problems before potential future problems
* Prioritize according to Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
* Recognize and respond to trends vs. transient findings
* Recognize signs of emergencies and complications vs. expected findings
* Apply clinical knowledge to procedural standards to determine the priority action. - correct
answer ✔✔ Prioritization Principles in client care
Autonomy - correct answer ✔✔ The right to make one's own decisions
Beneficence - correct answer ✔✔ The obligation to do good for others.
