A nurse utilizes the nursing process to take care of clients in a busy medical-surgical unit in a suburban hospital.
The nurse uses bedside and hand-held monitors to collect a variety of information, including blood glucose level, clotting time, electrocardiograph rhythm, cardiac output, blood pressure, oxygen saturation of hemoglobin, and temperature. For which part of the nursing process does the nurse use the above technology?
A) Assessment
B) Planning
C) Implementation
D) Evaluation
Question 2
A nurse attends the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's (AACN) educational conference and reports back to the hospital all that she has learned.
When presenting the information to her nurse manager, the nurse discusses the recommended generalist nurse's abilities that the AACN proposes for nursing. Which of the following abilities should the generalist nurse be able to perform with technology?
A) Participate in decisions regarding the use of demographic data
B) Use technology to advance patient education at the bedside
C) Use appropriate technologies to assess and monitor hospital practices
D) Adapt the use of technologies to meet the nurse's needs
It is important to ask patients what other health care providers they are seeing, such as the dentis
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Medical assistant interviewing a patient.
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