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dmcintosh

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on: Jul 8, 2018
Health care facilities are incorporating the use of electronic health records (EHRs), and nurses are responsible for entering data on their patients.
 
  Nurses understand that there are many advantages to this new form of charting. Which of these factors make the electronic EHR an advantageous health care record for the nurse?
  a. Record keeping is safe and accurate.
  b. Documentation is timely.
  c. Corrections to the record can be made at the end of the shift.
  d. Coordination of vital signs to prescribed medications is automatic.

Question 2

Peer reviews are frequently included in the overall employee performance appraisal. What values are attributed to the peer review?
 
  a. The nurse has the ability to evaluate based on personal knowledge of the employee's performance.
  b. Friendships can interfere with peer ap-praisals.
  c. Selection of peers for appraisals can be biased.
  d. Frequency of shared work may influence evaluation by peer.


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sultana.d

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Reply #1 on: Jul 8, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: A
The EHR provides a confidential, easily accessible, and legible record of the patient's health his-tory and current admission. The other options are not true about the EHR.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: A
When asked to submit peer evaluations, they should be selected on the basis of time actually shared in the work day/week. The other options are not an attribute of the peer evaluation meth-od of appraisal.


dmcintosh

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Reply 2 on: Jul 8, 2018
Excellent

kusterl

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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