CRNE Exam Prep - Question List

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246. A medical facility transfers and assigns decision-making authority through the decentralization process. Which of the following is true about this process?
  1. It is the distribution of authority at all levels of management and in all of the organization.
  2. The important and key decisions are made by a limited number of individuals at the top of the organization.
  3. One of its strengths is the organization is able to respond quickly to major issues and changes.
  4. One of its weaknesses is it does not facilitate coordinated operations at divisional level.
247. Nicolas is a 38-year-old male who is admitted to the facility after a drinking spree. The client is staggering and confused. The client becomes verbally abusive after a registered nurse refused to let him have a smoke inside the emergency department. The nurse asks a group of nurses to obtain leather restraints. The RN threatens to place Nicolas in restraints if he does not calm down. The client can legally charge the nurse with which of the following?
  1. Negligence
  2. Assault
  3. Battery
  4. Invasion of privacy
248. A registered nurse enters a private room and finds a co-nurse drinking a bottle of whiskey. Another bottle of whiskey is seen on top of the table. Which of the following is the first action of the registered nurse?
  1. Step out and lock the room.
  2. Call the facility’s security.
  3. Call the police.
  4. Call the nursing supervisor.
249. A Registered Nurse realizes that she made an error in documenting an assessment finding on a client who was admitted for an elective surgery. The RN obtains and opens the client’s chart to correct the error. Which of the following actions done by the RN demonstrates the right way of correcting errors?
  1. The nurse draws one line through the error and initialing and dating the line.
  2. The nurse erases the error by using a whiteout, writes the correct data, and initials and dates the line.
  3. The nurse removes the page that contains the error, writes a new report, and files the new record.
  4. The nurse calls the nursing supervisor to report the error.
250. A nurse enters a room and finds a post-operative client lying on the floor. The client is assessed and assisted back to the bed. The nurse informs a physician of the incident and then writes an incident report. Which of the following is NOT a correct way of writing and filing an incident report?
  1. The nurse makes no reference to the incident report in the client’s record.
  2. The nurse does not use the incident report as a substitute for a complete entry in the client’s record regarding the incident.
  3. The nurse writes the client’s name, age, and diagnosis on the incident report.
  4. The nurse places the incident report form in the client’s record.

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