Exam 9: Professional Relationship Issues

A physician writes an order that the registered nurse believes will harm the patient. The nurse believes the physician to be incompetent. What is the most appropriate action for the nurse?

A staff nurse suspects that her friend, another nurse on her unit, is impaired by illicit drugs. The nurse does not want to get her friend in trouble, but she fears that patients may be harmed. What is this conflict of loyalties an example of?

Which of the following prohibits harassment related to race?

Which of the following is characteristic of workplace incivility?

Which of the following would be described as "showing sympathy, care, and reciprocity to those with whom the nurse appropriately identifies, as well as working closely with others toward shared goals"??

Which of the following individuals is the nurse's primary obligation to?

A nurse chooses to go without lunch so that a patient can be taken outside to get a newspaper and a strong cup of coffee. Which of the following terms best applies to this situation?

When delegating patient care activities, what does the nurse have a responsibility to do?

Which of the following statements best describes the physician-nurse relationship in a hospital setting?

What guideline could a nurse use to consider alternative actions that require quick solutions, as well as to address urgent problems that require immediate responses simultaneously?

A nurse attempts to perform a urinary catheterization on a patient who is unable to void. The novice nurse is nervous and is unable to accurately catheterize the client. An experienced nurse storms into the patient's room, grabs the catheter out of the nurse's hands and loudly proclaims, "What's wrong with you, haven't you ever done this before?!" What definition best exemplifies this situation?

Which of the following statements best defines harassment?

"Hello, I my name is Dan Lee. I am a third-year nursing student who is part of the interprofessional team that will be caring for you during your hospitalization. I would like to hear about what brought you into the hospital." According to the ICN Code of Ethics for Nurses (2000), what is this an example of?