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APUS57

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The physician asks the nurse to perform a procedure. The nurse is unsure whether nurses are allowed to perform this procedure. What is the nurse's best source of information to determine whether the procedure can legally be performed by the nurse?
 
  1.
  Ask another nurse with more experience
  2.
  Nurse Practice Act
  3.
  Call the nursing instructor
  4.
  Call any school of nursing

Question 2

After the student graduates and begins to practice the healing art in the real world of nursing, he or she develops what type of knowledge?
 
  1.
  Knowing that
  2.
  Knowing how
  3.
  Knowing why
  4.
  Knowing when


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l.stuut

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Reply #1 on: Jul 17, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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The Nurse Practice Act is the best resource to determine what practices are allowable for LPNs in that state.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: 2
The nurse develops knowing how knowledge when caring for a patient or a category of patients over time. This information evolves without explanation while performing the day-to-day responsibilities of the profession.


APUS57

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Reply 2 on: Jul 17, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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Excellent

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