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c0205847 · **on:** Jul 23, 2018

When the oncology unit's interdisciplinary team meets every Monday morning at 0830 to discuss the unit's individual clients, the group is best displaying:

1. Staff education
2. Collaborative practice
3. Team communication
4. Nursing shared governance

Question 2

Which of the following actions is the best example of a nurse exercising nursing authority?

1. Assigning team responsibilities to individual team members
2. Evaluating a team member's ability to perform a bladder scan
3. Readjusting a client's turning schedule to provide hourly repositioning
4. Determining that a client will not be ambulated based on assessment findings

s.meritte · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: 2
Collaboration of health care team members is required to help meet the complex needs of clients in health care settings. Such collaborative interaction may strengthen individual members' knowledge and communication skills. Nursing shared governance is a process directed towards the standard of nursing care among a particular groups of professional nurses.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: 4
Authority refers to legitimate power to give commands and make final decisions specific to a given position. Canceling a client's ambulation is the best example because it shows critical thinking in determining the appropriateness of an intervention. The remaining options are better examples of nursing responsibility.