Exam 11: Building Nursing Management Skills

A nurse is working on a medical-surgical unit and receives a phone call from a provider who would like to give orders for a new patient.What should the nurse do to make the telephone order safer for the patient?

The instructor has suggested that the student nurse could improve organizational skills and manage time better by scheduling selected nursing activities in the daily assignment.Which activity should be scheduled?

The nurse calls a physician to come to the unit to assess a patient.Which of the following is the most effective telephone communication by the nurse?

The nurse wants to anticipate patient needs in order to increase patient satisfaction and decrease the use of call bells in the assigned section.What actions can be taken to achieve this?

A nurse has been assigned the following patients.Which patient is a priority to assess first?