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cagreen833

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It is significant for the profession of nursing to assist nurses in seeing their work as a collaborative process with the other professional team members rather than as a:
 
  A. Handmaiden career that gives orders to the other health-care disciplines
  B. Task-oriented group primarily interested in accomplishing orders from physicians
  C. Profession that prides itself on task com-pletion versus positive patient outcomes
  D. Profession interested only in self-glory that they are knowledgeable about patient conditions

Question 2

Which of the following best describes ongoing quality improvement (QI)?
 
  A. Identification of critical pathway va-riances
  B. Evaluation of patients' minimum data sets
  C. Measurement of patient satisfaction levels
  D. Ongoing evaluation of quality and patient outcomes



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: B

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A Incorrect because nurses are not hand-maidens and RNs do not give orders.
B Correct because nurses should not be per-ceived as a task-oriented group under physicians.
C Incorrect because nurses need to pride themselves on positive patient outcomes.
D Incorrect because nursing is not a self-glory focused profession.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D

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A Incorrect because QI is not critical path-way variances.
B Incorrect because QI is not minimum data set evaluation.
C Incorrect because patient satisfaction le-vels are not QI.
D Correct because QI is ongoing evaluation of quality and outcomes.





 

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