Author Question: A non-nurse questions why nurses make such an effort to serve and protect the wishes of their ... (Read 13 times)

stevenposner · **on:** Jul 7, 2018

A non-nurse questions why nurses make such an effort to serve and protect the wishes of their patients. You, as a nurse, respond that by serving and protecting the wishes of their patients, nurses are participating in:

a. unionization. c. collective bargaining.
b. workplace advocacy. d. legal decision making.

Question 2

If a nurse contacts the physician and the physician gives an inappropriate answer or gives no orders, the nurse should document this by:

a. contacting the supervisor and completing a peer review committee report.
b. completing an incident report and routing the report to the medical ethics committee.
c. completing a physician's order and sending it to the emergency room physician to obtainorders.
d. documenting the call in the chart, the information relayed, and the fact that no orders
were given.

kswal303 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 7, 2018

Answer to Question 1

B
Nurses who serve and protect the wishes of their patients are participating in workplace advocacy.
Patient advocacy is a form of workplace advocacy.

Answer to Question 2

D
If the physician gives an inappropriate answer or gives no orders, document the call, the information
relayed, and the fact that no orders were given. Peer review pertains to nursing. Completing an
incident report would be appropriate only if the physician hangs up or terminates the call. Completing
a physician's order is illegal without the physician's dictation of orders to the nurse.