Feedback from staff suggests that the new scale is too difficult for patients who have limited language skills and who are already under duress to understand. The difficulty in implementing the new scale refers to testing:

Feedback from staff suggests that the new scale is too difficult for patients who have limited language skills and who are already under duress to understand. The difficulty in implementing the new scale refers to testing:

After several months of heavy patient loads in the Emergency Department and inability to secure sufficient and experienced staff, the department is especially taxed by a train accident that brings in many seriously injured individuals. You observe that Rama ignores the requests of several of the injured, even when time is available to care for them and is rude to two older adult patients. You are concerned that Rama is evidencing which state?

Mary is a newly-hired, new graduate nurse. Mary adapts her practice to imitate her co-workers on the unit. She is demonstrating:

Which of the following is an effective approach in the appraisal of research studies?

A charge nurse allows a nurse an additional twenty minutes for his lunch break to take care of a personal matter. The charge nurse agrees to watch his patients for the additional twenty minutes, only if he agrees to help with the end-of-shift drug count. The charge nurse is demonstrating which of the following types of conflict management?

With regard to nursing practice, nurse managers are held responsible for: (Select all that apply.)

A nurse manager has recently become aware of a conflict between the pharmacy and the staff nurses regarding sending and receiving medications. Which of the following actions should the nurse take first to resolve the conflict?

The Rehabilitation Unit at Pleasant Valley Hospital has a high number of falls. What interventions might assist to reduce the number of falls on the unit?

A nurse is serving on a continuous quality improvement (CQI) committee that has been assigned to develop a program to reduce the number of medication administration errors following a sentinel event at the facility. Which of the following strategies should the committee plan to initiate first?

During a review of back injuries, a unit manager discovers a large number of injuries are occurring in spite of mechanical lifts being used. Furthermore, it is determined that some lifts are outdated. In establishing a quality improvement plan, the unit manager should: