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LCritchfi · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

When giving a lecture regarding outcomes, the nurse educator explains that an important report issued by the ANA concerning outcomes is which of the following?

a. Crossing the Quality Chasm
b. To Err Is Human
c. Nursing Report Card for Acute Care Settings
d. Keeping Patients Safe

Question 2

There are three levels of management in nursing. Which action by the nurse would indicate the nurse is a first-line nurse manager?

a. Responding to a patient complaint
b. Deciding to incorporate walking rounds shift report hospitalwide
c. Reevaluating the nursing policy permitting IV push of certain medications by RNs
d. Designating assignment of new admissions

31809pancho · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

C
The American Nurses Association's 1995 report entitled a Nursing Report Card for Acute Care
Settings listed indicators for patient-centered outcomes, structures of care, and care processes.
Crossing the Quality Chasm, To Err Is Human, and Keeping Patients Safe are all reports
concerning patient safety and quality care from the Institute of Medicine (IOM).

Answer to Question 2

A

Feedback
A The first-line manager is the nurse manager and would be responsible for res-ponding to patient complaints.
B Middle-level managers set short- and long-term goals.
C It is a responsibility of upper-level management to forecast trends in nursing.
D This would be the responsibility of the charge nurse.