Answer to Question 1
D
The Recommended Baccalaureate Competencies and Curricular Guidelines for the Nursing Care of Older Adults is an updated version of The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice. This document was first published by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) in 2008 and was updated in 2010 . The other three documents do not have information about curricular requirements to prepare students to care for the older population.
Answer to Question 2
A
To be responsive to the legal obligation to report reasonably suspicious acts of abuse and because there is great variation among the states, nurses should determine the specific reporting requirements of their jurisdictions, including where reports and complaints are received and in what form they must be made. The statements that the nurse is a mandatory reporter and that abuse should be reported if suspected are true, but they do not help the nurse learn to handle the complaint. The manager may want to know about claims of abuse and it may be facility policy to report up the chain of command, but the nurse is responsible for filing the formal complaint.
Sharing patient information with colleagues is an important nursing role
Care must be taken in handling bodily fluids to prevent the transfer of infectious agents through co
Critical thinking and the process of planning care
Critical thinking and implementing care
Linkages between nursing outcomes
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