Costing out nursing services relies on nursing interventions that ...

[washai]

Costing out nursing services relies on nursing interventions that are initiated by ____.
 
  a. Medical and nursing diagnoses
  b. Physician contacts
  c. Primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of care
  d. Treatment needs

Question 2

Measuring the productivity of nurses is complex because the ____.
 
  a. Care outcomes should never be associated with cost
  b. Disease processes and nursing outcomes are not well understood
  c. Most efficient combination of resources for performing care processes is not known
  d. Use of diagnosis-related groups is not widespread

[Chou]

Answer to Question 1

A
According to McCloskey (1989), two models for costing out nursing services have been identi-fied. One model is based on total nursing cost per diagnosis-related group, and one model is based on the initiation of nursing services by medical and nursing diagnoses.

Answer to Question 2

C
Productivity measurement is complex for the following reasons: (1) measuring nursing care out-comes is difficult and controversial; (2) the relationships between care processes and nursing outcomes are not well understood; and (3) the most efficient combination of resources for per-forming care processes is not known (Edwardson, 1989).

[washai]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

[at]

Gracias!