Nurse accountability, which involves the delivery and accurate ...

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Nurse accountability, which involves the delivery and accurate documentation of quality care, is vital. Healthcare facilities and agencies have contiguous (or continuous) quality improvement committees. What is the role of this committee?
 
  A) Monitors quality of ongoing care
  B) Caters to employees who are unable to work
  C) Assigns recognition to hospitals
  D) Offers health services.

Question 2

A nurse caring for elderly clients in an assisted living facility is required to educate clients on the effects of aging on the endocrine system.
 
  When caring for elderly clients, the nurse identifies which factor is a result of aging on the endocrine system? A) Decrease in metabolic rate
  B) Wakefulness at night
  C) Decrease in voluntary movements
  D) More susceptible to heat stroke

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Answer to Question 1

A
Feedback:
Continuous quality improvement committees monitor quality of ongoing care. Joint Commission assigns recognition to hospitals. Social Security Disability insurance caters to employees who are unable to work and health maintenance organizations offer health services.

Answer to Question 2

A
Feedback:
Decreased metabolic rate is one of the results of aging on the endocrine system. Wakefulness at night, decrease in voluntary movements, and being more susceptible to heat stroke are results of aging on the nervous system and on the endocrine system.

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