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tnt_battle · **on:** Jul 17, 2018

A new graduate nurse applies for a physician's office licensed practical/vocational nurse position. The nurse has no training in bookkeeping, clerical duties, or phlebotomy. During the interview which is the most important question for the nurse to ask?

A) What is the scheduling process, and what breaks are provided?
B) What specific duties does this position require of the nurse to perform?
C) Do you provide additional training for any skills I may not possess?
D) Who is the supervisor I will report to and take orders from while working here?

Question 2

A licensed practical/vocational nurse (LP/VN) is concerned that the patients she cares for in the geriatric clinic report that recent changes in legislation has brought about

changes in prescription coverage and now the patients are unable to afford the medications they need. The LP/VN may exercise political voice best by writing:
A) the state representative for the state senate about the issue.
B) the local newspaper to make people aware of the changes in Medicare.
C) her U.S. Senator about the issue and suggestions as to what needs to be done.
D) the U.S. Senator from another state who presented the bill about the issue.

wergv · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 17, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Ans: B
Feedback:
The nurse's most important question to ask is what specific duties will the position require the nurse to perform because an office nurse may provide nursing care to patients and other staff handle the other tasks of an office, or the nurse may have a wide gamete of tasks to perform, including desk reception, scheduling appointments, obtaining labs and specimens, helping the physician, or collecting payments for the visit.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: C
Feedback:
The best way the nurse may use political voice in this instance to help the patients is to write her United States Senator about the issue. Nurses are able to give valuable information to the congressional leaders to help them make necessary changes, which in turn will help their older adult constituents. The U.S. Senator from another state does not have to answer her letter and most likely will not do anything about the issue since the nurse is not one of his or her constituents. Writing the local newspaper to publish information about the changes in Medicare may or may not occur, and without urging the citizens and taking action herself to write the appropriate U.S. Senator, the nurse will not accomplish the needed political voice. Medicare funding is Federal, so writing the state representative for the state senate will not help the nurse to exercise her political voice.