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In a health care organization, ownership is
 
  a. a willingness to invest in decision-making and express ownership in those decisions.
  b. the best method for integrating staff roles and relationships into structures and pro-cesses to achieve positive patient out-comes.
  c. recognition and acceptance of the im-portance of everyone's work and of the fact that an organization's success is bound to individual performance.
  d. linking health care providers and patients along all points in the system.

Question 2

The ANCC (American Nurses Credentialing Center) is an organization that recognizes excellence in nursing in hospitals. Which outcome would be expected by an institution receiving Magnet Hospital status? (Select all that apply.)
 
  a. Nurses as teachers
  b. Quality nursing leadership
  c. Better salaries for staff
  d. Increased use of UAPs
  e. Quality of care
  f. Community relationships



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: C
Ownership is recognition and acceptance of the importance of everyone's work and of the fact that an organization's success is bound to individual performance. Accountability is a willingness to invest in decision-making and express ownership in those decisions. Equity is the best method for integrating staff roles and relationships into structures and processes to achieve positive pa-tient outcomes. Partnership is linking health care providers and patients along all points in the system.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: A, B, E, F
A, B, E, and F are characteristics developed by ANCC to accredit hospitals through their nursing care performance. C and D are not characteristics used to acquire Magnet status.



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