Attracting nursing staff to a facility, hiring, and orienting new nursing staff is a costly process. Implementing programs that result in retention of nursing staff is cost-effective for health care facilities. Programs that result in nursing job satisfaction and nursing staff retention are examples of what client care management principle?

A physician is preparing to perform a chest tube placement on a client with a pneumothorax. The client’s nurse informs a recently hired nurse on the unit that the chest tube placement is about to begin and gives the new hire nurse the opportunity to observe and assist with the procedure. The client’s nurse has just engaged in which form of staff education?

A group of nurses is discussing the benefits of specialized certifications in specific areas of nursing. One of the nurses states, “I believe that the additional knowledge that I acquired by studying for my specialty certification was worth the time and money that I spent. It enhances my client care and benefits my clients every day.” Several nurses in the group decide to study for their certifications based on the certified nurse’s positive experience. This is an example of which type of staff education and development?

A nurse states to a nurse coworker, “The education coordinator and the charge nurse keep asking me for my new CPR and ACLS cards. I suppose that they will let me know when those certifications are about to expire.” What is the appropriate response by the nurse coworker regarding the nurse’s responsibility for continuing education?

Supervision of delegated client care responsibilities, tasks, and activities is essential to the delivery of quality, cost-effective, multidisciplinary client care. What is the correct definition of supervision?

A heath care facility uses the self-scheduling method for nursing schedules and individual unit staffing. Each nurse pencils in the preferred schedule by order of seniority, then all nurses are responsible to adjust scheduled days to cover that unit’s target number of licensed nurses per schedule. The assistant nurse manager approves each finalized schedule and makes minor adjustments if necessary. What concepts of staff management does the assistant nurse manager employ to achieve completion of the nursing schedule?

Supervision is an essential component of the appropriate delegation of client care. Which example demonstrates inappropriate supervision?

Nurse with less than one year of experience complains to an experienced nurse,“The charge nurses are always checking up on me and evaluating my client care. I feel as if the charge nurses do not trust me to give good care to my clients.”Which response by the experienced nurse demonstrates an understanding of appropriate staff supervision?

A friend contacts a nurse at work and states, “Our friend, _______, has just been in a car accident and is in your emergency room. I am so worried. Can you check your hospital computer system and tell me the extent of the injuries?” What is the most appropriate response by the nurse to the concerned friend?

Health care facilities store a large portion of their clients’ health information on the facility’s health information system. Each health care team member with a need to access health information is given a password or log in code. How closely is access to a facility’s health information system monitored?

How should computer monitors that display accessed client health information be positioned to ensure that no visitors to a health care facility or unauthorized persons will be able to view information stored on the facility’s health information system?