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elizabeth18

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The chief nursing officer needed to make changes in the staffing budget because the hospital was opening an additional 10 beds to the emergency department. The nursing administrator had to look at what type of costs?
 
  a. Variable costs
  b. Sunk costs
  c. Semivariable costs
  d. Marginal costs

Question 2

A nurse manager uses what technique to help control costs?
 
  a. Delegating appropriate tasks to unlicensed personnel
  b. Comparing costs with those of other departments
  c. Calculating the break-even points on an item
  d. Conducting comparisons in monetary units



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
Marginal costs are the extra costs created by providing care to one more service unit. They are calculated as the difference between the total costs before and after adding one additional service unit.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: A
Delegation of appropriate tasks to unlicensed personnel can save more expensive nurses' time for activities requiring more knowledge and skill.





 

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