The specific tools used to make quality visible to stakeholders ...

[Diane]

The specific tools used to make quality visible to stakeholders in health care are called:
 
  a. indicators.
  b. outcomes.
  c. variable selections.
  d. quality measures.

Question 2

As a nurse manager, you have been offered a position at a Veterans Administration hospital. In accepting the position, it is important for you to understand that veterans hospitals provide:
 
  a. Primary care and are privately funded.
  b. A range of services and are responsible to government and taxpayers.
  c. Secondary care only and are publicly ad-ministered and funded.
  d. Services to veterans under an HMO.

[jomama]

Answer to Question 1

A
Indicators are valid and reliable measures related to performance (Oermann & Huber, 1999, p. 41). They are the specific tools used to make quality visible to stakeholders in health care.

Answer to Question 2

B
Veterans Administration hospitals provide a range of services to veterans and are responsible to government and thus to taxpayers, who support the hospitals.

[Diane]

TYSM

[kthug]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it