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Marty · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

Tara, the unit manager, is telling her colleague about her recent project, which involves seeking the most effective approaches to incontinence care, with the intention of adopting evi-dence-supported approaches on her dementia care unit.

Her colleague suggests that translation of research into practice is: a. Less important than knowledge-generating research, which is required to advance the nursing profession.
b. A priority of all healthcare practitioners to improve patient care.
c. Characterized by lack of knowledge about how to use evidence to guide prac-tice.
d. So difficult that it is useless to begin the query in the first place.

Question 2

Mary is the manager of the critical care unit. She would like to hire a wound care nurse for the unit. The type of organizational budget Mary would use to ensure she can hire the new nurse is called the _____ budget.

a. capital
b. personnel
c. operating
d. expense

macybarnes · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

B
The National Institutes of Health identified translational research, or getting research into the hands of practitioners to improve patient care, as a priority.

Answer to Question 2

B
The personnel budget is the staffing budget of the cost center.