Exam 20: Patient Environment and Safety

The certified nursing assistant (CNA) places a confused, weak patient in a wheelchair and applies a vest protective device. The nurse should instruct the CNA to: (Select all that apply.)

Material safety data sheets (MSDS) are required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The nurse must:

An appropriate environmental nursing intervention for a patient with respiratory congestion is to:

A patient complains of not being able to sleep because of the noise in the hall at night. The nurse should:

A patient who has right-sided weakness following a stroke is admitted to a long-term care facility and exhibits increasing wandering and inability for self-care. To protect the patient from the most frequent cause of injury among the elderly, the nurse's most efficient intervention would be:

A nursing assistant on the day shift reports that he has raised the bed rails to keep an agitated patient from climbing out of bed. The nurse's best response to this information is: