Smorgasboard
Acid Base Imbalance
Torts/EP
Smorgasboard
Delegation
100

The nurse is reviewing the surgical consent with the client during preoperative education and finds the client does not understand what procedure will be performed. What is the nurse’s best next step?

Notify the healthcare provider about the client’s question.

100

A client is experiencing respiratory acidosis. Which organ system is responsible for compensation in this client?

Renal

100

A nurse is providing care to a client on strict bed rest following surgery. The nurse assists the patient to the bedside commode and the client sustains an injury to the operative area. Which type of torts has the nurse committed?

Negligence

100

Which is the nurse’s role in regard to informed consent? (3)

Confirm the client has sufficient knowledge, witnesss, make sure consent is in chart.

100

Vital signs, empty foley, daily ADL's

UAP

200

“It seems so unfair that this dialysis is going to ruin my whole life."

Anticipatory grieving.

200

pH 7.3, PaCO2 36 mm Hg, HCO3− 19 mEq/L

Metabolic Acidosis

200

The nurse questions a health care provider’s decision to not tell the client about a cancer diagnosis. Which ethical principle is the nurse trying to uphold for the client?

Autonomy

200

A nurse suspects an older adult client is experiencing caregiver abuse. Which assessment findings are consistent with the nurse’s suspicions?

Cuts and bruises in different stages of healing

200

Check nasogastric tube patency and obtain a urine specimen collection using straight catheterization. 

LPN

300

A nurse is planning care for a client that is to receive packed red blood cells (RBCs). The nurse should plan for the total infusion time not to exceed which of the following?

4hrs

300

pH 7.32, PCO2 35, HCO3 20

Metabolic acidosis?

300

A nurse tells a client that the flu shot may cause some discomfort but describes the benefits of the immunization.

Beneficience

300

The nurse should ask about a client’s potential allergies during which phase of the nursing process?

Assessment

300

Assisting a client that is 12 hr postoperative following an appendectomy to use a bedpan

UAP

400

A nurse is assessing a client who is receiving one unit of packed red blood cells (RBCs) to treat intraoperative blood loss. The client reports chills and back pain, and the client's blood pressure is 80/64 mm Hg. Which action should the nurse take first?

Stop the infusion of blood.

400

The nurse is caring for a client with hyperkalemia. Which body system assessment is the priority?

Cardiac

400

Ensuring that time and resources are distributed equitably to clients.

Justice

400

A nurse witnesses an unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) reprimanding a client for not using the urinal properly. The UAP threatens to put a diaper on the client if the client does not use the urinal more carefully next time. Which tort is the UAP committing?

Assault

400

IV push medications and initiate blood transfusion

RN

500

An internal process unique to each person with variable time frames.

Grief Process.

500

Calcium level 15.5

Hypercalcemia

500

The nurse overhears a healthcare provider's conversation with the charge nurse. The healthcare provider says that a certain nurse cannot care for clients because the nurse is stupid and will not follow orders. Which tort has the healthcare provider committed?

Slander

500

A client admitted with right leg thrombophlebitis is to be discharged from an acute-care facility. Following treatment with a heparin infusion, the nurse notes that the client's leg is pain-free, without redness or edema. Which step of the nursing process does this reflect?

Evaluation

500

Insert a nasogastric tube in a client.

LPN