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A nursing student’s friends ask her to go on a weekend camping trip. The student has a major exam on Monday. In helping set personal priorities, what should be considered?

  • The student’s diminishing finances, which must last throughout the semester.
  • The student’s parents’ pride in her academic success.
  • The student’s personal stress level as finals grades are approaching. (correct)
  • The student’s friends, who have supported her in the past.

Which of the following statements is true about your personal mission statement?

  • It remains unchanged throughout your life.
  • It defines your relationship with society.
  • It describes your purpose in life. (correct)
  • It requires knowledge of triage and disaster planning.

When setting nursing priorities, which factors must be considered?

  • Compassion and patient needs (correct)
  • Patient and family requests
  • Physician’s orders and patient status
  • Knowledge base and nursing theories

The nurse has given report to the oncoming nurse. She must clock out in 10 minutes to avoid overtime, which has been looked upon as poor time management and discouraged by nursing administration. The oncoming nurse has been called away. A client who has experienced ineffective pain management during the shift is due for more medication and requests it. What is the nurse’s decision-making regarding personal priorities based on?

<p>A personal value system (D)</p>
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You have received oncoming report. Using concepts of Maslow and Watson for priority setting, which client would you assess first?

<p>An asthmatic pediatric patient with expiratory wheezing (C)</p>
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How does priority setting in your personal setting differ from a clinical setting?

<p>Priority setting in a clinical setting requires teamwork. (C)</p>
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Your hospital has moved from paper and pen documentation to computerized documentation. Although you have attended the required training session, you still feel it takes longer and is not as descriptive. What is your best response?

<p>Ask your supervisor for additional training on computerized documentation. (D)</p>
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The nurse is caring for a client admitted for complications following an abortion. The nurse values adoption over abortion. How will the nurse best serve this patient?

<p>Asking the charge nurse for an alternate assignment (B)</p>
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A single mother is staying with her 8-month-old daughter, admitted for dehydration secondary to gastroenteritis. After the third hospital day, the exhausted mother states she would like to go home to shower and get clean clothes, but she does not want to leave her daughter. The nurse should:

<p>inquire if another family member is available to stay in her absence. (A)</p>
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Which of the following makes decision making during an emergency more difficult?

<p>The consequences to each decision are not known. (C)</p>
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What is the common result when the nurse has not identified her own personal values?

<p>Delayed decision making results in confusion. (D)</p>
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Learning to set meaningful priorities will help the nurse to do what?

<p>Make decisions quickly (A)</p>
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The nurse’s personal values help the nurse determine what?

<p>Priorities (A)</p>
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The nurse begins work by setting priorities of care. What intervention will be the nurse’s highest priority?

<p>Administer a diuretic to the patient with pulmonary edema. (C)</p>
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Applying Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, what patient requires the nurse’s priority attention?

<p>The patient who is hungry after being NPO for several days (D)</p>
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The nurse is caring for a patient who has just signed an informed consent to be included in a research study for an experimental medication. The patient tells the nurse that she really doesn’t want to be part of this study, but her doctor was so excited about the possibilities and talked so ideologically about how her participation could help all of mankind that she felt she couldn’t decline to participate. What is the nurse’s priority action?

<p>Inform the physician the patient signed the consent under duress. (B)</p>
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How does Watson’s theory direct the nurse’s prioritizing of patient care?

<p>The patient who is the sickest should be cared for first. (B)</p>
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The LPN is asked by a physician to administer a medication that can only be administered by an RN or a physician according to facility policy. The LPN explains why she cannot give the medication, but the physician keeps insisting the LPN should give the medication while the physician supervises. What is the best resource for the LPN to use to base decision-making?

<p>The facility procedure manual (B)</p>
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The LPN is considering going back to school to become an RN. What type of decision making is required in this situation?

<p>Decision allowing time to process (D)</p>
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The nurse is working on a busy unit that is short-staffed. Which of the following patient assessments is the highest priority?

<p>A patient with chest pain radiating to the left arm and diaphoresis (A)</p>
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