You are in the process of designing a patient education program that will provide education and monitoring for patients with hypertension. To support your planning, you draw out and present patient data from:

Because of the complexity of reimbursement systems and its implications for the services available to patients, the nurse has a key role in:

A client smoking in his bathroom has dropped a cigarette butt into a wastepaper basket, which begins to smolder. Which of the following actions is the nurse's priority?

A nurse is planning care for a hospitalized client who is immobile and in a continuous mitten restraint. Which of the following interventions should be included in the client's care plan? (Select all that apply.)

A nurse is preparing to administer intravenous fluids via an infusion pump to a client. Which of the following actions should the nurse take to prevent an electrical hazard? Select all that apply.

You are in the process of designing a patient education program that will provide education and monitoring for patients with hypertension. To support your planning, you draw out and present patient data from:

The chief nursing officer of a Magnet® hospital has conducted a study of ways to improve healthcare services. Healthcare services that add value for clients:

Ellen is a novice nurse on your unit. As her supervisor, you notice Ellen's knowledge and skill deficiencies. These deficiencies have been noticed by her peers as well. Which of the following is likely to be the greatest asset to Ellen in improving her performance?

A recent nursing graduate in a busy Emergency Department triages a patient who has sustained a large, deep puncture wound in his foot while working at a construction site. He is bleeding and is in pain. The nurse enters the triage data that she has obtained from the patient into a computerized, standard emergency patient-classification system. After she enters the assessment data, she notices an alert on the computer screen that prompts her to ask the patient about the status of his tetanus immunization. What system of technology is involved in generating the alert?

The nurse manager knows that the most serious effect that absenteeism has on the nursing unit is that:

During a performance appraisal, Joanne, the nurse manager, indicates that Alysha has difficulty mentoring students on the unit. Alysha responds that this is not her responsibility. In responding to Alysha, Joanne needs to consider: