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Cooldude101 · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

The nurse educator on a gerontological unit has recognized the need to implement evidence-based practice around the prevention of wandering. The nurse will be implementing the Iowa model of evidence-based practice.

According to the model, which of the following is a problem-focused trigger that most likely prompted the nurse's desire for changes in practice?
A) The emergence of new and innovative research around the prevention and management of wandering
B) The release of new standards by the administration of the hospital
C) The fact that wandering patients have recently fallen or gone missing from the unit
D) Increases in patient acuity of the past several months with no commensurate increase in staffing levels

Question 2

Knowing that the healthcare organization utilizes the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems Version 9 (ICD-9) for patient and third-party billing, a nurse has requested such records for patients admitted in

the last 3 months to the emergency department. The nurse has requested that the records be provided in an electronic, rather than paper-based, format because
A) confidentiality is easier to maintain when working with electronic data.
B) electronic data are more likely to be current than paper-based records.
C) patients often do not grant permission for release of their health records in hard copy.
D) electronic data are easier to manipulate in order to perform statistical analysis.