A nurse works in the intensive care unit. She enjoys being on the ...

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A nurse works in the intensive care unit. She enjoys being on the unit charge nurse team, the recruitment and retention team, and the peer evaluation team.
 
  The recruitment and retention team is responsible for hiring new employees into the intensive care unit. The five-member team, con-sisting of three registered nurses, a unit clerk, and a nurse's aide, conduct the interviewing process with key questions that were developed by the team. This is an example of ____. a. Centralized power
  b. Shared governance
  c. Span of control
  d. Vertical authority

Question 2

A staff nurse came in to work the 7 PM to 7 AM shift. She had met her friends for happy hour before her shift. Her breath smells of alcohol. If this nurse is allowed to provide care to patients, she may be at risk for ____.
 
  a. Maleficence
  b. Melange
  c. Nonmaleficence
  d. Nonmelange

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Answer to Question 1

B
Shared governance is a vehicle through which nurses actively engage in making decisions re-garding nursing practice, quality of patient care, education, nursing peer issues, and issues in the work environment.

Answer to Question 2

A
Maleficence is doing harm to the patient whether it is intentional or unintentional, such as an omission. If the nurse is intoxicated, she may fail to meet the standard of care for a patient. Me-lange (collection of a variety of things) and nonmelange are distractors.