Identify the underlying premise for evidence-based practice.
a. Practice based on research produces better client outcomes.
b. Nurses need to provide strong rationales for all their interventions.
c. Nurses who use research to guide practice make fewer errors.
d. Evidence for practice is accumulated over the years when nurses perform the same skills repeatedly.
Select the action by the nurse that best helps promote the adaptation of a client in Addisonian crisis.
a. Assign the client to a private room.
b. Cover the client with one or two extra blankets to keep him warm.
c. Ambulate the client four times per day to maintain exercise tolerance.
d. Encourage the client to take a shower in-stead of a bed bath.
Why do forensic nurses practicing in an institutional setting commonly face basic value conflicts?
a. Health care is the primary goal.
b. Inmates do not regard the nurse as an au-thority figure.
c. Resources for health-care services are se-verely limited.
d. The principles of security are often at odds with the principles of treatment.
A unit manager is preparing the time schedule for the summer holiday season. Approximately one half of the staff has requested 1 to 2 weeks' vacation. Granting all the requested time will lead to severe staffing shortages.
What is the nurse manager's primary consideration in developing this schedule?
a. Nurses' satisfaction and work perfor-mance
b. Establishing good communication with staff members to reduce resentment
c. Granting requests by seniority and per-formance evaluations
d. Client safety needs
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