Practice Question
A charge nurse is reviewing laboratory results with a newly licensed nurse to determine whether a client's WBC count has returned to the expected reference range. Which of the following roles is the charge nurse demonstrating?
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Correct Answer:
Consultant
Rationale:
🔹 A consultant provides expert guidance to help others interpret clinical information such as labs.
🔹 The charge nurse is offering specialized knowledge to the new nurse.
🔹 Consultants help improve care by sharing expertise, not performing tasks.
🔹 The role focuses on support and clarification, ideal for teaching interpretation of lab values.
🔹 This promotes safe practice and enhances nursing competency.
Advocate
🔹 Advocacy focuses on client rights, not laboratory interpretation.
🔹 It involves speaking up for the client, not teaching staff.
Change agent
🔹 A change agent promotes system improvements, not lab result interpretation.
🔹 It involves organizational transformation.
Researcher
🔹 Research skills involve generating new knowledge, not routine clinical consultation.
🔹 The nurse is not conducting a study.
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Question Details
- Category: RN Nursing Exam(s)
- Subcategory: ATI Exam(s)
- Domain: RN ATI Leadership & Management
- Answer Choices: 4