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ATI Leadership and Ethics NURS 252 Questions
Extract:
Question 1 of 5
A manager notes that the incidence of medication errors has increased since the implementation of staffing changes. What strategy should the manager consider to reduce errors?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Including nurses in decision-making fosters collaboration and addresses practice issues, reducing errors. Emphasizing consequences, improper reporting, or delegating responsibility do not effectively address root causes.
Question 2 of 5
Feedback from staff suggests that the new scale is too difficult for patients who have limited language skills and who are already under duress to understand. The difficulty in implementing the new scale refers to testing:
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Effectiveness tests how well an intervention works in real-world settings, including usability issues like patient understanding. Efficacy tests ideal conditions, practice failure implies complete failure, and comparative error involves comparison issues.
Question 3 of 5
During an annual performance evaluation, a manager provides truthful feedback about the nurse's performance. What ethical principle does this represent?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Fidelity involves truthfulness and trust, reflected in honest feedback. Autonomy respects decision-making, nonmaleficence avoids harm, and justice ensures fairness, but none directly apply to truthful feedback.
Question 4 of 5
The nurse manager wants to use evidence-based recommendations to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia. After developing a spirit of inquiry and identifying a problem, what is the next step to effectively gather evidence for guiding practice (i.e., evidence-based inquiry)?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Developing a clinical question guides the evidence search, ensuring relevance. Integration, appraisal, or database identification follow after formulating the pytanie.
Question 5 of 5
A nurse is a member of a quality-improvement committee seeking to reduce the risk of adverse events in a health care facility. When reviewing recently submitted incident reports, which of the following incidents should the nurse identify as a sentinel event?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Paralysis is a severe adverse outcome, qualifying as a sentinel event requiring investigation. Prevented surgery, a non-injurious fall, or cultural insensitivity do not meet sentinel event criteria.