The manager of a small clinic has cross-trained the nurses to ...

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The manager of a small clinic has cross-trained the nurses to perform electrocardiogram (ECG) testing, phlebotomy, and some respiratory therapy interventions. This clinic is providing client-focused care. Which are the benefits of this delivery model?
 
  Select all that apply.
  A) Collaboration among many disciplines in providing client care
  B) Decreased steps to provide client care
  C) Decreased personnel required to provide client care
  D) Ease in tracking client progress
  E) Cost-effective care resulting in improved outcomes

Question 2

A client in the clinic is being asked to participate in a research study. The client asks why a nursing research study is necessary because research on this subject has already been published by the American Medical Association (AMA).
 
  Which goal of nursing research will the nurse share with this client regarding the goal of nursing research?
  A) It supports the medical profession.
  B) It validates nursing through medical research.
  C) It supports products used in nursing care.
  D) It validates nursing care, not medical care.

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: B, C

Client-focused care is a delivery model that brings all services and care providers to the client. Activities provided by auxiliary personnel (physical therapy, respiratory therapy, ECG testing, and phlebotomy) are moved close to the client, thereby decreasing the number of personnel involved and the number of steps to get the work done. Managed care focuses on cost-effective, quality care, which results in decreased costs and improved outcomes. Case management is a way to integrate healthcare services for individuals or groups and involves multidisciplinary teams that assume collaborative responsibility for planning, assessing needs, and coordinating, implementing, and evaluating care. Critical pathways are used to track the client's progress in case management.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: D

Many people do not understand that nursing is a separate profession from the medical profession. One reason that nursing research is undertaken is to ensure the credibility of the nursing profession as separate from medicine with the potential to make valuable contributions to client care. Nursing research validates nursing, not medicine. Nursing research is not established to support products but to improve client care. Nursing research does not seek to support the medical profession but the nursing profession.