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Lisaclaire · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

County Hospital has purchased a computerized reporting system for reporting incidents, including acts of violence. Violence reports are aggregated, trended, and used to mitigate future incidences of workplace violence.

This type of management framework is _____ management. a. risk
b. threat
c. total quality
d. human resources

Question 2

Shared governance is a vehicle for engaging organizations and creating the necessary forums and intersections that assure the decisions and actions remain dynamic and as close to the point of service as possible. Shared governance promotes:

a. dependence.
b. nonpunitive culture.
c. horizontal relationships.
d. executive decision making.

shoemake · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

C
Total quality management (TQM) comprises the general processes of setting standards, collecting information, assessing outcomes, and adjusting policies. TQM and risk management share the goals of problem elimination, performance enhancement, and eliciting total organizational commitment.

Answer to Question 2

C
Shared governance is an accountability-based model through which nurses actively engage in making decisions regarding nursing practice, quality of patient care, education, nursing peer is-sues, and issues in the work environment. Shared governance promotes involvement, investment, participation, sharing of power, interdependence, cooperation, horizontal relationships, autonomy, and accountability for nursing decisions. Nursing effectiveness is enhanced through the sense of ownership that comes with more active involvement in the leadership of the organization.