Exam 14: Assertiveness: Your Responsibility

A staff nurse enters the room in which you're giving care to a patient in traction. She calls you aside and states, "I've watched you all morning. You don't seem to know how to do anything right. Look at you now! You're bathing the patient and it's almost time for lunch." An assertive approach would be to say

A nurse demonstrates assertive behavior by doing which of the following?

When a nurse tells a peer, "You have to watch out for the charge nurse. Sometimes she's OK, but sometimes she's just plain unreasonable. The best thing to do is to tell her off the first time she gets on your back about something. Keep me posted and I'll try to help you." An assertive reply would be

The instructor tells a nursing student to hurry with the assignment in order to help a classmate who is behind with work. The student has promised a patient she'd return in 15 minutes to polish the patient's nails. Which response would be considered assertive?

The nurse is assigned to park in a newly created parking lot that is far from the hospital building. Some of the lights in the new parking lot have not been installed. As the nurse is about to leave, she notices several young men loitering near the walkway she must take. The nurse should