A nationally known management consultant, whose consulting fee is very high, is scheduled to speak at a day-long hospital education conference. The head nurse wants the information presented at the educational program to be disseminated among the staff. Which plan will be most useful in achieving this goal?

The nurse is caring for an older adult who was admitted with a urinary tract infection and is now exhibiting signs of severe inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). Which collaborative care goal(s) should the nurse include in the plan of care? Select all that apply.

During an evening shift on a medical unit, the only nurse on the unit is busy with an unstable client. The unit clerk, who is also both a certified medication aide and an unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP), reports to the nurse that a healthcare provider is on the telephone and wishes to prescribe an as needed (PRN) dose of an oral over-the counter laxative for a client who is constipated. Which instruction should the nurse provide the unit clerk?

A client is transferred to the surgical intensive care unit after an exploratory laparotomy following a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The post anesthesia care unit (PACU) nurse reports to the receiving nurse the total amount of blood loss during surgery, intravenous catheter sites and fluid currently infusing. The PACU nurse also includes the time of the last administration of pain and nausea medications. Which additional information should the nurse provide to complete the report?

A group of nurse managers is asked to engage in a needs assessment for a piece of equipment that will be expensed to the organizations budget. Which question is most important to consider when analyzing the cost-benefit for this piece of equipment?

Breakfast trays have arrived on the unit, but the daily serum glucose level is not available on the chart of a client with type 1 diabetes mellitus. Which action should the nurse take?

A nationally known management consultant, whose consulting fee is very high, is scheduled to speak at a day-long hospital education conference. The head nurse wants the information presented at the educational program to be disseminated among the staff. Which plan will be most useful in achieving this goal?

An experienced, female practical nurse (PN) is hired to work on the surgical unit of a tertiary hospital. The first day she is working on the unit, the PN tells the charge nurse that she has excellent wound care skills. It is a busy day and a postoperative client needs to have a sterile dressing change. Which action is best for the charge nurse to take?

The nurse determines that an intravenous (IV) vesicant chemotherapy infusion is infiltrated. In responding to this finding, which task can the nurse delegate to the unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP)?

The fire alarm goes off while the charge nurse is receiving the shift report. Which action should the charge nurse implement first?

The registered nurse (RN) is gathering supplies to assist a healthcare provider with a bedside thoracentesis when the emergency department (ED) use as to report on a client with unstable angina that must be admitted immediately. A practical nurse (PN) and unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) as the RN. How should the RN assign the necessary nursing actions?