You Are the Charge Nurse on a Busy Medical-Surgical Unit

question 8

Multiple Choice

You are the charge nurse on a busy medical-surgical unit.You are also the preceptor to a novice nurse.What response would be expected from a nurse in the novice stage of clinical competence development when assigned to perform a morning assessment on a patient?

• A)Nurse uses Doppler to obtain pulses on a patient with no palpable peripheral pulses
• B)Reporting to the charge nurse that they cannot feel a patient's peripheral pulses and the blood pressure is only palpable
• C)Nurse calls for help when she finds the patient with barely palpable blood pressure and hard to arouse
• D)Reporting to the charge nurse that she decided to let the patient sleep until the breakfast trays arrive because the patient was sleeping so soundly

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Definitions:

Price Ceiling

A legal maximum price set by the government for goods and services, intended to prevent prices from rising above a certain level.

Equilibrium Price

The price at which the quantity of a product offered is equal to the quantity of the product in demand, leading to market stability where there is no shortage or surplus.

Temporary Surplus

A situation where the supply of a product exceeds its demand for a short period, often leading to price reductions.

Quantity Supplied

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