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Medical-Surgical Nursing

What Should the Nurse Do?

Medical-Surgical NursingWhat Should the Nurse Do?

What Should the Nurse Do?

1 .
You have completed a comprehensive physical and history assessment on a young patient with whom you have developed a good rapport. You are leaving at the end of your shift and say goodbye. The patient asks you if you will be their nurse tomorrow. You answer honestly that you never know what your assignment will be the day before. The patient states that they would like to request you as their nurse so they can get to know you better, and asks if the two of you could have coffee in the cafeteria tomorrow. If you were the nurse, what would you do?
2 .
A nurse in a busy ER enters the room of a patient who presents with a broken wrist. The patient is in pain and becomes impatient as the nurse begins to ask questions. How should the nurse respond when the patient asks, “Can’t you just look this all up in my medical record?”
3 .
An 88-year-old patient on the med-surg unit fell in their room after trying to get from bed to the bathroom without assistance. What safety and surroundings assessment components related to the patient’s home environment could have helped prevent this incident?
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