You have worked two 16-hour shifts in 4 days and you are very tired. The coworke

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You have worked two 16-hour shifts in 4 days and you are very tired. The coworker who was due to relieve you has had a car accident on the way to work. Your supervisor asks you to work another 16-hour shift so he will not have to pull a nurse from another floor who will not be familiar with the patients. You have already worked 8 hours today, for a total of 40 hours this week. You feel that you are too tired to work oven another hour, much loss 8 more hours. How will you respond? When you arrive at clinical one morning, you meet a fellow nursing student in the bathroom. She smells of alcohol and is slurring her words. She confides that she was ''partying until 4 a.m." and never slept last night. She tells you that she will be fine after a couple of cups of coffee. Do you have any responsibility to share this information? Why or why not? If you do have that responsibility, with whom do you share the information? While assisting with a urology procedure, some Cidex, a strong antiseptic cleanser, splashes into your eye. How will you know the first aid action to take?

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Though it is a very difficult situation but being a nurse it is better for the patient to be taken care of by a familiar nurse rather than a stranger nurse. So I will give my best try to work in that hours but if it is too tiring and can't handle standing, I'll ask supervisor to call the nurse from another floor and I'll guide her accordingly of what patient needs and what is to be done. Then I'll stay for a while and if everything is going well then I'll ask permission to leave.

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