VATI ;MEDICAL-SURGICAL ALATERNATE
ITEM FORMAT QUIZ WITH ANSWERS
A charge nurse is delegating a task. The nurse understands which of the following
represents effective delegation? Select all that apply.
Select one or more:
a. Asking the nurse if they are capable of completing the delegated task.
b. Delineating the desired outcomes of the delegation.
c. Referring to the ANA Code of Ethics for effective delegation practices.
d. Monitoring how the delegated task is being accomplished.
e. Delegating a task that should be assigned to a manager. - ANSWER-a. Asking
the nurse if they are capable of completing the delegated task.
b. Delineating the desired outcomes of the delegation.
d. Monitoring how the delegated task is being accomplished.
,- Asking the individual who is being delegated if they are capable of completing
the delegated task is considered effective delegating. Identifying the qualified
person best able to complete the job in terms of capability and time to do so is
considered effective delegation.
- Effective delegation means planning ahead when identifying tasks to be
accomplished. Assess the situation, and clearly delineate the desired outcomes.
- Monitoring how the task is being accomplished is considered effective
delegating.
A nurse is aware that priorities need to be continuously set and reset in order to
meet the needs of multiple clients. Which principles of client care should the nurse
use for prioritization when giving report? Select all that apply.
Select one or more:
a. Prioritize systemic before local.
b. Prioritize potential problems before actual.
c. Prioritize acute before chronic.
d. Recognize and respond to transient findings.
, e. Listen carefully and don't assume. - ANSWER-a. Prioritize systemic before
local.
c. Prioritize acute before chronic.
e. Listen carefully and don't assume.
- Prioritizing systemic before local ("life before limb") is a prioritization principle
in client care. Examples include prioritizing interventions for a client in shock over
interventions for a client with a localized limb injury.
- Prioritizing acute (less opportunity for physical adaptation) before chronic
(greater opportunity for physical adaptation) is a prioritization principle in client
care. Examples include prioritizing the care of a client with a new injury/illness
(e.g., mental confusion, chest pain) or an acute exacerbation of a previous illness
over the care of a client with a long-term chronic illness.
- Listen carefully and don't assume is a prioritization principle used in client care.
Recognizing that a postoperative client's report of pain could be due to pain in
another location rather than expected surgical pain.
A nurse is obtaining a sterile specimen from an indwelling urinary catheter. Place
the following steps in the order the nurse should use to obtain this specimen:
A. Remover clamp to resume drainage.
ITEM FORMAT QUIZ WITH ANSWERS
A charge nurse is delegating a task. The nurse understands which of the following
represents effective delegation? Select all that apply.
Select one or more:
a. Asking the nurse if they are capable of completing the delegated task.
b. Delineating the desired outcomes of the delegation.
c. Referring to the ANA Code of Ethics for effective delegation practices.
d. Monitoring how the delegated task is being accomplished.
e. Delegating a task that should be assigned to a manager. - ANSWER-a. Asking
the nurse if they are capable of completing the delegated task.
b. Delineating the desired outcomes of the delegation.
d. Monitoring how the delegated task is being accomplished.
,- Asking the individual who is being delegated if they are capable of completing
the delegated task is considered effective delegating. Identifying the qualified
person best able to complete the job in terms of capability and time to do so is
considered effective delegation.
- Effective delegation means planning ahead when identifying tasks to be
accomplished. Assess the situation, and clearly delineate the desired outcomes.
- Monitoring how the task is being accomplished is considered effective
delegating.
A nurse is aware that priorities need to be continuously set and reset in order to
meet the needs of multiple clients. Which principles of client care should the nurse
use for prioritization when giving report? Select all that apply.
Select one or more:
a. Prioritize systemic before local.
b. Prioritize potential problems before actual.
c. Prioritize acute before chronic.
d. Recognize and respond to transient findings.
, e. Listen carefully and don't assume. - ANSWER-a. Prioritize systemic before
local.
c. Prioritize acute before chronic.
e. Listen carefully and don't assume.
- Prioritizing systemic before local ("life before limb") is a prioritization principle
in client care. Examples include prioritizing interventions for a client in shock over
interventions for a client with a localized limb injury.
- Prioritizing acute (less opportunity for physical adaptation) before chronic
(greater opportunity for physical adaptation) is a prioritization principle in client
care. Examples include prioritizing the care of a client with a new injury/illness
(e.g., mental confusion, chest pain) or an acute exacerbation of a previous illness
over the care of a client with a long-term chronic illness.
- Listen carefully and don't assume is a prioritization principle used in client care.
Recognizing that a postoperative client's report of pain could be due to pain in
another location rather than expected surgical pain.
A nurse is obtaining a sterile specimen from an indwelling urinary catheter. Place
the following steps in the order the nurse should use to obtain this specimen:
A. Remover clamp to resume drainage.
