Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Exam Prep

Category - Acute Care Nurse Practioner Practice Test

The NP 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?
  1. Take the first two sets of vital signs for a patient receiving their first unit of packed red blood cells.
  2. Collect information about a new patient.
  3. Ambulate a patient who had a lumbar fusion surgery yesterday.
  4. 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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