A Nurse Believes That an Assignment Is Unfair and Refuses

question 15

Multiple Choice

A nurse believes that an assignment is unfair and refuses to care for the assigned patients.What could be the outcome if the nurse abandoned the patient assignment?

• A)The nurse would be assigned to another group of patients.
• B)Untoward patient outcomes
• C)Other nurses would take on the nurse's assignment.
• D)Disciplinary action by the Board of Nursing
• E)Disciplinary action by the nurse's employer

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Definitions:

RAM Memory

Volatile computer memory where data can be read and written, used for storing the operating system, application programs, and data in current use.

Read/Write Head

A component of a disk drive, such as a hard drive, that reads data from and writes data to the disk.

Mechanical Hard Disk

A data storage device that uses mechanical platters and a moving read/write head to access data.

CPU

The Central Processing Unit (CPU) is the primary component of a computer that performs most of the processing inside the computer, acting as the "brain" of the computer.