Nursing has been identified as being invisible in health care. ...

[moongchi]

Nursing has been identified as being invisible in health care. What is the most urgent issue in establishing a standardized nursing language?
 
  a. Value and necessity in contracts and service specifications
  b. Value and necessity in creating a visible definition of professional practice
  c. Value and necessity in health policy decisions
  d. Value and necessity for client safety and professionals' accountability

Question 2

The nurse is caring for a patient with Clostridium difficile. Which of the following nursing actions will have the greatest impact in preventing the spread of bacteria?
 
  a. Monthly in-services about contact precautions
  b. Placing all contaminated items in biohazard bags
  c. Mandatory cultures on all patients
  d. Proper hand hygiene techniques

[Ptupou85]

Answer to Question 1

D
The value and necessity for client safety and professionals' accountability, along with accurate data for system and clinical evaluation, is the more urgent issue in establishing a standardized nursing language.
The value and necessity in contracts and service specifications has been an invisible aspect of nursing.
More recently the argument has shifted from the issue of visibility to the value and necessity for client safety and professionals' accountability.
The value and necessity in health policy decisions has been an invisible aspect of nursing.

Answer to Question 2

D
Proper hand hygiene is the best way to prevent the spread of bacteria. Monthly in-services place emphasis on education, not on action. Biohazard bags are appropriate but cannot be used on every item that C. difficile comes in contact with, such as a human. Mandatory cultures are expensive and unnecessary and would not prevent the spread of bacteria.

[moongchi]

TYSM

[Jossy]

Excellent