What are true or false answers
A PSW can orient a person newly admitted to a facility to their new surroundings?
What is true? A PSW should show the client the area they will be using, times for meals, how lights and callbells work and more. This is orienting the client.
Gathering information from all sources
What is assessment
A PSW can be delegated inserting an IV
What is false. A clinet requiring an IV is not usually considered stable.
A client is bleeding
What is an objective observation?
A PSW tells a supervisor of anything unusual or changed with their client
What is reporting? Reports do not generally include things that are considered normal for the client
A PSW can look after IVs in any setting
What is false? A PSW can never be responsible for an IV
Doing what is on the care plan
What is implementation
A PSW can be delegated the first suppository a client has ever had
What is false? The outcome of this procedure has not been established
A PSW notices that the client is frustrated
What is a subjective observation?
Reporting an error made by a PSW at the end of the shift
What is incorrect timing for reporting? All errors should be reported immediately
A support worker can never refuse to perform a delegated task
What is false? If the PSW does not have the required training, if the clinet is not stable or if outcomes of the treatment are not established, a PSW should refuse the task while giving the reason for the refusal
identifying problems that can be addressed through nursing measure
What is the nursing process
The client must be stable, the outcomes of the task must be established and the PSW must be trained
What are some of the conditions for delegation to be allowed
The urine has an unusual odor
What is an objective observation?
Time can be saved by documenting a task that you plan to do before it is completed
What is false? A task must be completed before it is documented
A PSW can be delegated the task of inserting a catheter in certain circumstances
What is true? If this is how the person normally eliminates from their bladder, a PSW can be delegated inserting a catheter
Determining whether the strategies on the care plan are effective or not
What is evaluation
A PSW is a regulated healthcare worker
What is false? A PSW is an unregualted care provider, or UCP
A client states they have pain
What is an objective observation?
A PSW is becoming frustrated with any aspect of the client care or progress
What is something that should be reported and discussed to the nurse or supervisor, but not documented?
Support workers can obtain written consent for surgery
What is false? For consent to occur, more information than a PSW is trained for must be given to the client.
The step that invloves setting goals and developing strategies to meet those goals
What is planning
A PSW can delegate a task to another PSW
What is false? Only people authorized to complete a controlled act are allowed to delegate it
A client looks like they have pain
What is a subjective observation
A client has made sexually suggestive comments to a PSW
What is something that should be reported and documented?