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CCRN Critical Care Nursing

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The nurse is working with a nursing assistant who has recently successfully completed her orientation. What would be an appropriate task to delegate to the nursing assistant?

Take the first two sets of vital signs for a patient receiving their first unit of packed red blood cells.
Collect information about a new patient.
Ambulate a patient who had a lumbar fusion surgery yesterday.
Teach a patient with diabetes how to use a Glucometer.

Explanation

Answer: C - An appropriate task to delegate to the nursing assistant would be able to ambulate a patient. Assessing and teaching are not within the nursing assistant’s scope of practice.

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