You practice using nursing's code of ethics for professional registered nurses. This code:

1. Improves self-health care

2. Protects the client from harm

3. Ensures identical care to all patients

4.Define the principles by which nurses provide care to their clients 

Lacey Conrad, a 18 YO woman, is in the ER w/ fever and cough. The MD asks you to obtain her vital signs, auscultate her lung sounds, listen to her heart sounds, determine her level of comfort and collect blood & sputum samples for analysis. Which standard of practice are you performing? 

1. Diagnosis

2. Evaluation 

3. Assessment 

4. Implementation

Lacey Conrad remains in the ER & has developed wheezing and shortness of breath. The MD has ordered a medicated nebulizer treatment now and in 4 hours. Which standard of care are you performing? 

1. Planning

2. Evaluation

3. Assessment

4. Implementation

You are caring for a client with end stage lung disease. The client wants to go home on oxygen and be comfortable. The family wants the client to have a new surgical procedure. You explain the risks and the benefits of the surgery to the family and discuss the client's wishes with the family. You are acting as the client's ____:

1. Educator 

2. Advocate 

3. Caregiver

4. Case manager

Evidence based practice is generally defined as:

1. Nursing based on tradition

2. Scholarly inquiry of nursing and biomedical research literature

3. A problem solving approach to clinical practice based on best practices

4. Quality nursing provided in an efficient & economically sound manner 

The examination for RN licensure is exactly the same in every state in the US. This exam: 

1. Guarantees safe nursing care for all clients

2. Ensures standard of nursing care for all clients 

3. Ensures that honest and ethical care is provided 

4. Provides a minimal standard of care 

Contemporary nursing requires that the nurse possess knowledge and skills for a variety of professional roles and responsibilities. 

Which of the following are examples (choose all that apply)? 

1. Caregiver

2. Autonomy & accountability

3. Patient adovocate

4. Health promotion

Advance practice nurses generally: 

1. Function independently 

2. Function as unit directors 

3. work in acute care settings

4. work in the university setting