Nursing Today
You are preparing a presentation for your classmates regarding the clinical care coordination conference for a patient with terminal cancer. As part of the preparation, you have your classmates read the Nursing Code of Ethics for Professional Registered Nurses. Your instructor asks the class why this document is important. Which statement best describes this code?
1. Improves self–health care
2. Protects the patient’s confidentiality
3. Ensures identical care to all patients
4. Defines the principles of right and wrong to provide patient care
Defines the principles of right and wrong to provide patient care
A nurse is caring for a patient with end-stage lung disease. The patient wants to go home on oxygen and be comfortable. The family wants the patient to have a new surgical procedure. The nurse explains the risk and benefits of the operation to the family and discusses the patient’s wishes with them. The nurse is acting as the patient’s:
1. Educator
2. Advocate
3. Caregiver
4. Communicator
Advocate
A critical care nurse is using a new research-based intervention to correctly position patients who are on ventilators to reduce pneumonia caused by accumulated respiratory secretions. This is an example of which QSEN competency?
1. Patient-centered care
2. Evidence-based practice
3. Teamwork and collaboration
4. Quality improvement
Evidence-based practice
The nurse manager meets with the registered nursing staff about an increase in urinary tract infections in patients with a Foley catheter. The staff work together to review the literature on catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), identifies at-risk patients, and establishes new catheter care practices. This is an example of which QSEN competency?
1. Patient-centered care
2. Safety
3. Teamwork and collaboration
4. Quality improvement
Quality improvement
The nurses on an acute care medical floor notice an increase in pressure injury formation in their patients. A nurse consultant decides to compare two types of treatment. The first is the procedure currently used to assess pressure injury risk. The second uses a new assessment instrument to identify at-risk patients. Given this information, the nurse consultant exemplifies which career?
1. Clinical nurse specialist
2. Nurse administrator
3. Nurse educator
4. Nurse researcher
Nurse researcher