Several Nurses Are Concerned That Agency Policies Related to Restraint

question 21

Multiple Choice

Several nurses are concerned that agency policies related to restraint and seclusion practices are inadequate.Which understanding about the relationship of substandard institutional policies and individual nursing practice should guide nursing practice?

• A) The policies do not absolve an individual nurse of the responsibility to practice according to professional standards of nursing care.
• B) Agency policies are considered the legal standard by which a professional nurse must act and therefore override other standards of care.
• C) In an institution with substandard policies,the nurse has a responsibility to inform the supervisor and leave the premises without delay.
• D) Interpretation of policies by the judicial system is rendered on an individual basis and therefore cannot be predicted.

Understand the differences between various types of nursing diagnoses.

Recognize methods for validating clinical inferences and diagnoses.

Identify which problems nurses can independently treat.

Apply Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to prioritize nursing diagnoses.

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Definitions:

Activity Duration

The total time period required to complete a specific task or activity within a project, from start to finish.

PERT Network

A project management tool used to schedule, organize, and coordinate tasks within a project, PERT stands for Program Evaluation and Review Technique and it visually illustrates a project’s timeline and the dependencies between tasks.

Non-Critical Activities

Tasks or processes in project management that have slack and therefore, do not impact the project's completion time if delayed.

Critical Paths

The sequence of stages determining the minimum time needed for an operation, particularly in project scheduling.