Safety
When a blood transfusion reaction occurs the nurse should
Stop the infusion
Start 0.9% Normal Saline
Collect a specimen
Send the blood to the laboratory/blood bank
What should the nurse do when a client has stated he is leaving the hospital against medical advice?
Document what happened
Explain the risks involved in leaving
Ask the client to sign a form relinquishing the hospital
When the RN delegates to the LVN/LPN, what guides the principles of delegation
The Nurse Practice Act
Gather data about the nurse's performance and attendance history
Sharing information
Cleaning contaminated surfaces, evaluating the safety of sharps, prohibiting recapping of needles, and using PPE
Injection safety
What is it considered when a UAP scolds a client for missing the urinal and threatens to put a diaper on the client if it happens again.
Assault
What should the nurse consider when delegating to a UAP
The UAP's level of experience
A leader that has to initiate disciplinary action with an employee should follow
the institution's formal reporting processes
Sharing power, valuing team members, depending on the team, and being accountable for your role are components of
Interprofessional collaboration
When sentinel events occur and the organization studies what happened to prevent errors in the future, the organization is considered to have a
Culture of safety
Which actions support skills in interprofessional collaboration
Recognizes the knowledge of each member
Encouraging client and family participation
Supporting team members input
A nurse delegates a task to an LVN and later discovers that task is not complete. What should the nurse do
Verify the LVN knows how to perform the task
When making change and protecting psychological safety, leaders provide opportunities for
Verbal abuse, gossip, or ostracism between individuals of the same level of the organization
Horizontal violence
Unexpected patient movements can cause
back injuries
Failure to rescue
A UAP refuses to perform an assigned task. What should the nurse do?
The nurse's duty to tell the truth
Varacity
A nurse that want to move up the career ladder, but finds that it is comprising her time with family is experiencing?
Interpersonal Conflict
A data driven effort lead by stake holder to meet predetermined goals through data analysis and evaluation.
Quality improvement
outlines the rights of clients in healthcare settings and their decision making
Task requiring a certain skill that the LVN is allowed to do with the LVN scope of practice
Effective leaders communicate a vision for the future through
involving others and connecting daily work to the vision
An organization the equalizes power between employees and employers
Collective bargaining