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The Emergency Department staff members are concerned that working long hours without rest puts patient safety at risk. One staff member decides that she will risk her job and become a whistleblower.
 
  Whistle-blowing is an appropriate recourse when management: a. Disregards due process when disciplining a nurse.
  b. Delays responding to repeated efforts to provide safe care.
  c. Hires nurses who are not a part of the un-ion during a strike.
  d. Refuses to bargain in good faith with the elected bargaining agent.

Question 2

Lactation uses about 500 calories a day, making it the best way to lose weight after childbirth.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false



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Answer to Question 1

B
Whistle-blowing is often a result of organizational failure, including failure of the organization to respond to serious danger or wrongdoing created within the environment, which, in this instance, involves conditions that put the patient at risk.

Answer to Question 2

F



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