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Mr. Wonderful

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The primary physician identifies a healthcare provider to manage the care of a patient on the general medical unit of a hospital. Depending upon the facility, which healthcare provider may fill this role? Select all that apply.
 
  1. Nurse Practitioner Hospitalist
  2. Physician Intensivist
  3. Physician Hospitalist
  4. Registered nurse
  5. Clinical Nurse Specialist Intensivist

Question 2

One of the patients on a nurse's team has become very ill and is requiring more of the nurse's time than was anticipated. The nurse must delegate some patient care activities in order to have time to care for this critically ill patient.
 
  Which activity can this nurse only delegate to another nurse? 1. Assessment of a newly admitted patient.
  2. Checking the blood pressure of a patient who had blood pressure elevation yesterday.
  3. Helping a patient with a shower.
  4. Delivering a specimen to the lab.



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Answer to Question 1

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Explanation: 1. Either a physician or a nurse practitioner can fill the role as hospitalist in many facilities. The hospitalist is a generalist and provides medical coverage for hospitalized patients instead of the patient's personal or primary care physician.
2. Intensivists cover patients in the intensive care units and have considerable intensive care experience, something that most primary care physicians do not have.
3. Either a physician or a nurse practitioner can fill the role as hospitalist in many facilities. The hospitalist is a generalist and provides medical coverage for hospitalized patients instead of the patient's personal or primary care physician.
4. RNs work under the direction of a physician.
5. Intensivists cover patients in the intensive care units and have considerable intensive care experience, something that most primary care physicians do not have.

Answer to Question 2

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Explanation: 1. Assessment requires clinical nursing judgment and can only be delegated to another nurse.
2. This skill could be delegated to assistive personnel with instruction to notify the nurse if the blood pressure is elevated above a specific limit.
3. This is a general care skill that can be delegated to assistive personnel.
4. This is an indirect patient care activity that can be delegated to someone other than a nurse.




Mr. Wonderful

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Reply 2 on: Jul 8, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


essyface1

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Great answer, keep it coming :)

 

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