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Kikoku · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

You are a new nurse manager and your mentor who is a nurse manager provides you with some guidelines about coordination. What would your mentor include? Select all that apply.

1. Staff need to understand the purpose of coordination.
2. Expect staff to use coordination effectively.
3. Policies and procedures are not standard part of coordination.
4. Coordination is an element to be assessed in staff performance appraisal.
5. Discuss coordination during staff meetings and orientation on the unit.

Question 2

In which situation would it be necessary to re-regulate practice? Select all that apply.

1. Nurses are asked to cross-train to another specialty.
2. An insurance company opens a nationwide nurse call line.
3. The hospital hires unlicensed assistive personnel.
4. A nursing school revises its curriculum.
5. The healthcare organization goes national and hopes to encourage mobility among its administrative nurses.

paavo · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

1, 4, 5
Explanation: 1. Understanding the purpose of coordination helps to apply it.
2. The nurse manager should not expect staff to use coordination effectively, but rather should assess and guide staff in its use.
3. Applying policies and procedures is part of coordination with an HCO.
4. Coordination should be assessed in performance appraisal.
5. The nurse manager should bring up coordination routinely in meetings and orientation for new staff.

Answer to Question 2

2, 5
Explanation: 1. This is a redesign practice used by many organizations to compensate for the nursing shortage.
2. The use of telemedicine requires re-regulating professional practice because nurses can use this technology to provide care in situations in which the patient is in a different state from the one where the nurse is licensed and located.
3. This is a redesign practice used by many organizations to compensate for the nursing shortage.
4. This is an example of restructuring in which nursing education attempts to prepare nurses for the real world.
5. This mobility would result in the nurses working in different states from where they live and are licensed.