The nurse is working in a busy intensive care unit. A client is admitted with extensive medical ...

Correct Answer: 4
Rationale 1: Compassion is about being aware of one's relationship to others; sharing joys, sorrows, pain, and accomplishments; and participating in the experience of another.
Rationale 2: Confidence is the quality that fosters trust. It means the nurse has comfort with himself, his clients, and his family.
Rationale 3: Commitment is a convergence between one's desires and obligations and the deliberate choice to act in accordance with them.
Rationale 4: Conscience deals with morals, ethics, and an informed sense of right and wrong as well as an awareness of personal responsibility. This nurse understands the situation of taking on a critically ill client when he is already busy enough and makes an appropriate request for a change in assignment.