Your hospital has moved from paper and pen documentation to ...

[jparksx]

Your hospital has moved from paper and pen documentation to computerized documentation. Although you have attended the required training session, you still feel it takes longer and is not as descriptive. What is your best response?
 
  1.
  Continue charting using paper and pen.
  2.
  Ask another nurse to chart for you in exchange for you passing her medications.
  3.
  Resign and look for another job at a hospital with a paper documentation system.
  4.
  Ask your supervisor for additional training on computerized documentation.

Question 2

How does priority setting in your personal setting differ from a clinical setting?
 
  1.
  Priority setting in a personal setting requires teamwork.
  2.
  Priority setting in a personal setting requires advanced planning.
  3.
  Priority setting in a clinical setting requires teamwork.
  4.
  Priority setting in a clinical setting requires advanced planning.

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Answer to Question 1

ANS: 4
The nurse must learn to work on the changing priorities of the organization and progress toward emerging practice opportunities. The nurse should keep her personal value system of quality and time-efficient patient care representative of the new things she learns.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: 3
When setting your personal priorities, you often can do that by yourself; but when setting priorities in the clinical arena, teamwork is required.

[jparksx]

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