The nurse is caring for a client at the clinic who tests positive for the sexually transmitted infection (STI) trichomoniasis. The client reports having sex with multiple partners. Which response should the nurse provide?

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?

It is most important to assign which client to a registered nurse rather than a practical nurse (PN)?

Several nurses are elected by their peers to serve on a negotiating committee to recommend new healthcare benefits. After the new benefits plan is developed and approved, which action is most important for the nurses working on this committee to implement?

A 5-year-old boy with mumps is being transferred to the pediatric unit. Which nursing intervention is most important for the nurse to implement?

At 0200 the nurse phones the healthcare provider to request a PRN medication for a client who is unable to sleep. The healthcare provider is awakened, and gives the nurse a prescription for four times the normal dosage. When questioned by the nurse, the healthcare provider responds in a sleepy voice, "Yeah, OK," and hangs up the phone. Which action should the nurse take first?

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 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)?

A charge nurse agrees to cover another nurse's assignment during a lunch break. Based on the status report provided by the nurse who is leaving for lunch, which client should be checked first by the charge nurse?

Reference Range:

Glucose [74 to 106 mg/dL (4.1 to 5.9 mmol/L)]

An older client who had a hernia repair 12 hours ago suddenly becomes agitated, pulls out the intravenous (IV) catheter, and staggers out into the corridor demanding to be set free. The nurse assists the client back to bed and re-establishes the IV access. Which intervention is most important for the nurse to implement prior to leaving the client's room?

Four clients are scheduled to receive IV infusions, but there are only three IV pumps available. Which prescribed infusion can most safely be administered without an IV infusion pump?