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jho37

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High quality relationships between nurses and nurse leaders __________.
 
  a. decrease medication errors
  b. decrease retention of nurses
  c. decrease patient safety outcomes
  d. decrease patient satisfaction

Question 2

A staff nurse has volunteered to work on the hospital's Quality Insurance Committee. As part of the training, the nurse would be taught that tracking the rate of medication errors is a clinical:
 
  a. outcome. c. structure.
  b. practice. d. process.



rleezy04

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Answer to Question 1

a

a. Correct: Decreased medication errors were the outcome of the study conducted by Squires et al in 2010.
b. Incorrect: Incorrect.
c. Incorrect: Incorrect.
d. Incorrect: Incorrect.

Answer to Question 2

D
Tracking the rate of medication errors as a performance measure is considered a clinical process. An
example of a clinical structure is the percentage of nurses and pharmacists who are certified or
licensed, and an example of a clinical outcome is the number of deaths from medical errors.



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