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s.tung · **on:** Jul 7, 2018

To engage your staff in awareness of their current practice and how it is affirmed or not by evidence, you plan a short series of learning presentations on evidence and use of heparin and saline to maintain IV patency.

You meet with the educator to plan out the goals for each session with the overall purpose of increasing knowledge and awareness of staff in readiness to consider questions related to the IV practice. This learning approach is an example of which change man-agement approach? a. Linear
b. First-order
c. Facilitative
d. Integrative

Question 2

The unit manager is working in a large metropolitan facility and is told that two UNPs are to be assigned to work with her. Delegation begins with:

a. Acknowledging the arrival of the second UNP on the unit.
b. Providing clear directions to both UNPs.
c. Matching tasks with qualified persons.
d. Receiving reports from the prior shift.

cswans24 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 7, 2018

Answer to Question 1

A
In the second stage, the moving or changing stage of Lewin's first-order, planned change process, planned interventions and strategies are executed to support the implementation of the change. One commonly used method is educating staff about the need for the change.

Answer to Question 2

C
In delegating to the UNPs, the nurse must consider what cannot be delegated, as well as the fac-tors of safety, time, critical thinking, and stability of patients.