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Question 1: How does the environmental context, the setting where you are taking care of the patient, influence what you notice about your patient and the quality of the care you provide your patient? Give one example of how the environment can hinder your clinical judgments as well as one example of how the environment can support your clinical judgments.
Question 2: An "expert" nurse with experience looks at the whole picture, uses intuition and pattern recognition to comprehend the meaning of a patient situation, and then makes sound clinical judgments. Describe the challenges that novice nurse, who lacks experience, faces when making clinical judgments.
Question 3: Explain the steps you would take to prioritize care for a patient experiencing blood loss after an abdominal hernia repair. What would you do first?
Question 4: The overall goal of patient advocacy is to protect the rights of the patient. To be an effective advocate, the nurse must be assertive, prioritize protecting the patient rights, recognize that conflicts may arise with other healthcare personnel requiring negotiation, and empower and educate patients to make their own health care decisions. Give two examples of when you have observed a nurse engage in patient advocacy.
Question 5: How are patient outcomes improved when a nurse engages in "reflection-in-action"?