Leadership


  1. Nurse upset unit changes quitting → Reflect feelings

  2. Staff skipping meal breaks noticed → Determine reason first

  3. New permanent pacemaker teaching → Telephone programming allowed

  4. Herpes simplex isolation care → Wear cover gown

  5. Intermittent tube feeding prep → Check residual volume

  6. Purpose nursing code ethics → Practice principles

  7. Shift report priority pneumonia restlessness → Assess first

  8. Needlestick injury safety knowledge → Complete incident report

  9. False HIV documentation chart → Libel

  10. Restraints applied without order → Remove restraints

  11. Manager ignores staff feelings → Competing style

  12. Frayed IV pump cord → Remove equipment

  13. Cannot afford asthma nebulizer → Social worker referral

  14. Appropriate LPN assignment post-op → CBI client

  15. Advance directive conflict CPR → Follow directives

  16. Floating L&D to med-surg → Clarify competencies

  17. Married minor emergency surgery → Client signs consent

  18. Post-op pain quality issue → Pain policy review

  19. Ethics understanding nurse actions → CE, pain meds

  20. Rehab transfer report content → Last pain dose

  21. Delegation task to AP → Pain scale use

  22. AP appropriate care task → Established ostomy

  23. Sterile field pouring solution → Label facing up

  24. Post-op assessment priority change → Rising pulse

  25. HIPAA breach cafeteria discussion → Remind confidentiality

  26. Ethical practice education concern → DNR misunderstanding

  27. Surgery decision family conflict → Client decides

  28. Home oxygen delivery delayed → Notify provider

  29. LTC client confused agitated → Reorient first

  30. Witnessing informed consent → Voluntary, understanding

  31. Incident report documentation → Objective description

  32. Cataract surgery discharge teaching → Opposite-side sleep

  33. Tuberculosis negative pressure room → Report health department

  34. Emergency disoriented arrhythmia → Treat without consent

  35. Client reconsiders surgery decision → Right to refuse

  36. Strep pharyngitis precautions → Wear mask

  37. Delegation appropriate AP task → Postmortem care

  38. ICP corticosteroids shift report → GCS score

  39. Chemical exposure clinic arrival → Don PPE

  40. Vancomycin elevated creatinine → Consult provider

  41. Mass casualty triage priority → Red tag

  42. AP equipment responsibility → Tag broken equipment

  43. Stroke dysphagia referral sign → Impaired cough

  44. Home fall risk hazards → Rugs, wheeled chair

  45. Dysphagia room equipment → Yankauer suction

  46. Compare medication error rates → Benchmarking

  47. Client rights education → Permission disclosure

  48. Reportable STI infection → Gonorrhea

  49. Case management nursing role → Critical pathways

  50. Wrong surgical site concern → Clarify with surgeon

  51. Highest priority med-surg → Absent pedal pulse

  52. Delegate vitals to AP → Post-transfusion stable

  53. Client worried valuables stolen → Facility safe

  54. Caregiver emotional distress observed → Brief supportive talk

  55. Full-thickness burns 72% → Black tag

  56. Early Alzheimer advocacy action → Reminiscence therapy

  57. TENS therapy assistance → Physical therapist

  58. Pressure ulcer specialist referral → Slough present

  59. COPD lives alone discharge → Home safety referral

  60. AP gave dysphagia meds → Assess breath sounds

  61. Enema technique error → Wrong leg flexed

  62. Wheelchair transfer safety → Lock wheels

  63. Staff resistant scheduling change → Change champions

  64. Hip arthroplasty lives alone → Assess needs

  65. LPN appropriate assignment → Stable emphysema

  66. IV pump overinfusion → Assess lungs

  67. Advance directives understanding → Ventilator decisions

  68. Manager report priorities → Staff shortages

  69. Before wrist restraints → Least restrictive first

  70. Cost-containment nursing action → Clean gloves colostomy

  71. Recent stroke assessment referral needed → Unilateral neglect

  72. Newborn nursery AP task → Weigh formula-fed newborn

  73. Newborn care LPN task → Administer Hep B

  74. TB discharge teaching understanding → Regular sputum cultures

  75. Floating nurse feels unsafe → Request assignment change

  76. Ethics advocacy example → Suggest support group

  77. Multiple clients assessment priority → NG tube crackles

  78. Advocacy nurse role statement → Empower client decisions

  79. ED float nurse assignment → Urinary catheterization

  80. Rheumatoid arthritis OT referral → Needs bathing help

  81. Sterile gown technique → Hands above waist

  82. Newspapers hallway compromise → Compromising strategy

  83. Prevent injury ethical principle → Nonmaleficence

  84. Client refuses surgery decision → Understands refusal risks

  85. Client refuses urine specimen → Document refusal

  86. C. diff equipment cleaning → Chlorine bleach

  87. Jaw pain indigestion priority → Assess first

  88. Delegate turning bone cancer → Assess needs first

  89. Wedding ring before surgery → Facility safe

  90. Addison’s disease AP task → Change positions slowly

  91. Cardiac cath risks question → Notify provider

  92. Advance directives explanation → Treatment instructions

  93. Postpartum priority action → Check uterine tone

  94. LPN teaching role → Reinforce insulin teaching

  95. HIPAA understanding → Access own records

  96. Droplet precaution infection → Mumps

  97. Minor emergency surgery consent → Attempt guardian contact

  98. Restraint safety understanding → Tie to movable frame

  99. Suspected chemical impairment nurse → Collect objective data

  100. LPN task appropriate → NG tube feeding

  101. Respite care explanation → Caregiver time away

  102. AP task renal failure → Obtain stool sample

  103. Diabetes supply cost concern → Social services referral

  104. Documentation below benchmark → Identify barriers

  105. Hip fracture awaiting surgery → AP vitals signs

  106. Shift report issue priority → Medication error report

  107. Total knee discharge teaching → Meds, PT, follow-up

  108. Reportable communicable disease → Chlamydia

  109. Informed consent guideline → DPOA consent allowed

  110. Hospice care explanation → Multidisciplinary terminal care

  111. Hospice severe sedation → Contact provider

  112. Post-cardiac cath priority → Delayed cap refill

  113. Evaluate delegated vitals → Recheck abnormal values

  114. Disease report state level → Pertussis

  115. Dementia unit safety → Exit alarms

  116. Unauthorized EMR access → Log out computer

  117. SBAR background info → Code status

  118. Preceptor time management → Set care goals

  119. Bioterrorism disaster priority → PPE supply

  120. Sterile technique maintained → Label up, proper opening

  121. Suspected elder abuse → Separate caregiver

  122. Extra medication dose found → Assess client first

  123. Repeated medication errors → Review nurse process

  124. Ethics committee consult → Religious transfusion refusal

  125. Telehealth main objective → Assess client needs

  126. Disaster triage treatment first → Airway compromised

  127. Fire evacuation priority → Ambulatory chemo client

  128. Pulmonary function test understanding → Nose clip

  129. Staff conflict TB refusal → House supervisor mediation

  130. ED triage priority → Dyspnea RR 26

  131. Finger-stick glucose teaching → Warm hands