Author Question: Only one nurse was scheduled to care for 12 postsurgical patients with a nursing assistant. The ... (Read 22 times)

vicotolentino · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

Only one nurse was scheduled to care for 12 postsurgical patients with a nursing assistant. The nurse is concerned for the safety of the patients and the nursing license. What is the most appro-priate first step in this situation?

a. Contacting the nursing supervisor and documenting the action
b. Refusing to care for the patients without appropriate help and leaving
c. Contacting the State Board of Nursing and documenting the action
d. Contacting the hospital administrator on call to complain and documenting the ac-tion

Question 2

A parent of three children has the oldest child start school this year, and the parent cries as the child is left at kindergarten on the first day. How is the loss that the parent is experiencing best described?

a. Maturational
b. Situational
c. Actual
d. Perceived

okolip · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

A
If a nurse is assigned to care for more patients than is reasonable for safe care, he or she should notify the nursing supervisor. If the nurse is required to accept the assignment, he or she must document this information in writing and provide the document to nursing administrators. Al-though documentation does not relieve a nurse of responsibility if patients suffer harm because of inattention, it shows that the nurse attempted to act appropriately. Refusing to care for the pa-tients without appropriate help and leaving could be regarded as abandonment. Complaining to the administrator is not the first step, nor is calling the Board of Nursing.

Answer to Question 2

A
People experience maturational losses as they go through a lifetime of normal developmental processes. For example, when a child goes to school for the first time she will spend less time with her parents, leading to a change in the parent-child relationship. Situational loss occurs as a result of an unpredictable life event. A situational loss often involves multiple losses. A divorce, for example, begins with the loss of a life companion, but often leads to financial strain, changes in living arrangements. People experience an actual loss when they can no longer touch, hear, see, or have near them valued people or objects. Examples include the loss job. Perceived losses are uniquely experienced by a grieving person and are often less obvious to others. A perceived loss is very real to the person who has had a loss. For example, a person perceives she is less loved by her parents and experiences a loss of self-esteem.