A Newly Admitted Patient Has Several Orders the Physician Has

question 18

Multiple Choice

A newly admitted patient has several orders the physician has written. As manager of care, a graduate RN knows that three of the following tasks can be routinely delegated to a nursing assistant, but one of them must be reserved for the RN to complete. Which task must the RN complete?

• A) Reminding to use the incentive spirometer
• B) Irrigating of a urinary catheter
• C) Conducting fingerstick glucose tests
• D) Collecting data for intake and output

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Definitions:

Environmental Pressures

Various factors in the environment that can influence the survival, reproduction, and evolution of organisms, often leading to natural selection.

Heritable Changes

Alterations in a genetic material that can be passed on from one generation to another.

Lamarck

A French naturalist known for his theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics, a concept preceding Darwin's theory of natural selection.

Biogeography

Study of patterns in the geographic distribution of species and communities.