Listed below are some of the reasons nurses document. Which is ...

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Listed below are some of the reasons nurses document. Which is not necessarily correct?
 
  a. compliance with accreditation criteria
  b. accurate data needed to plan the patient's care in order to ensure continuity of care
  c. a resource for the hospital's protection only
  d. documented legal record to protect the patient, organization, and nursing and medical providers

Question 2

Which of the following is an appropriate order of steps for the step-by-step process to change an organization's culture?
 
  a. identify ways to communicate change; collect and reach agreement about culture; form a group
  b. collect and reach agreement about organization's actual culture; identify discrepancies between actual and ideal culture; develop a strategic action plan
  c. develop an action plan; come to agreement on preferred culture of organization; celebrate small changes
  d. celebrate small changes; repeat the change; collect input and reach agreement about success of change

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Answer to Question 1

C
Documentation is an important part of professional nursing practice and helps provide evidence of the nurse's actions for the patient. Documentation is a professional responsibility for all health care professionals. Some reasons nurses document include: 1) compliance with accreditation criteria and professional nursing standards; 2) accurate data needed to plan the patient's care in order to ensure continuity of care; 3) a resource for review, quality improvement, reimbursement, education, research, and protection for nurses, other health care professionals and the organization (not only the hospital); and 4) documented legal record to protect the patient, organization, and nursing and medical providers.

Answer to Question 2

b

a. Incorrect: The order of steps is incorrect.
b. Correct: In Cameron and Quinn's nine-step process for changing an organization's culture, the steps occur in the following order: 1 ) form a group of key employees in the organization, including those responsible for implementing the change; 2 ) collect input and reach agreement about organization's current culture; 3 ) discuss what the organization's ideal culture would look like; 4 ) figure out what to keep and what to change to shift the culture; 5 ) develop a strategic action plan; 6 ) celebrate small, easy changes; 7 ) leaders develop their skills in leading change; 8 ) measure progress in achieving cultural change by identifying measures and milestones of change; 9 ) identify ways to communicate change to help employees become aware of how things have changed.
c. Incorrect: The order of steps is incorrect.
d. Incorrect: The order of steps is incorrect.