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nmorano1 · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

A continuum of care:

a. deals strictly with health promotion.
b. focuses on the needs of the community.
c. is a linkage of health services across set-tings.
d. provides another health care option for the homeless.

Question 2

You recently acquired a position as a unit manager. During your time on the unit, you have formed a strong social network among your staff, have promoted the development of relation-ships between your staff and workers in other areas of the

organization, and have formed rela-tionships that generate ideas from patient organizations and the local nursing education program. According to complexity theory, you are engaging which principle? a. Empowerment
b. Systematic thinking
c. Development of networks
d. Bottom-up interactions

juwms · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

C
A continuum of care is a linkage of health services across health care delivery settings and sites of care. Nurses need to focus on managing the continuum of care as a basis of nursing practice. Collaboration and communication are essential elements of coordination and integration across a seamless continuum of care: Continuity of patient care involves a series of coordinating lin-kages across time, settings, providers, and consumers of health care.

Answer to Question 2

C
According to complexity theory, social networks evolve around areas of common interest and are able to respond to problems in creative and novel ways.