The nurse needs a reminder of professional responsibility when ...

[neverstopbelieb]

The nurse needs a reminder of professional responsibility when performing which of these actions?
 
  a. Making an informed clinical decision
  b. Making an ethical clinical decision
  c. Making a clinical decision in the patient's best interest
  d. Making a clinical decision based on previous shift assessments

Question 2

Professional nurses are responsible for making clinical decisions to
 
  a. Prove traditional methods of providing nursing care to patients.
  b. Take immediate action when a patient's condition worsens.
  c. Apply clear textbook solutions to patients' problems.
  d. Formulate standardized care plans for groups of patients.

[shewald78]

Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
The professional nurse is responsible for assessing patients each shift. Making informed, ethical decisions in the patient's best interest is practicing responsibly.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
Professional nurses are responsible for making clinical decisions to take immediate action when a patient's condition worsens. Patient care should be based on evidence-based practice, not on tradition. Clear textbooks solutions to patient problems are not always available. Care plans should be individualized.