The nurse manager is observing an experienced nurse who is new to the unit perform a dressing change. The experienced nurse is using sterile gauze, but the orders for the dressing change indicate that it is a clean dressing change. The time to complete the procedure was under 5 minutes.

The patient tolerated the procedure without complaints. How would the nurse manager interpret this situation?

1 The experienced nurse is demonstrating decreased productivity.

2 The patient was satisfi ed with the demonstrated task.

3 The experienced nurse is not demonstrating effi ciency.

4 The experienced nurse can teach other nurses how to do the dressing.

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