Which of the following does not provide health care ratings or scoring of hospital performance? ...

Answer to #1

B
Several groups and agencies report on health care and hospital quality and performance. Some of these groups include Health Grades, Leapfrog Hospital Quality and Safety, Thomson Reuters, the Department of Health and Human Services' Hospital Compare site, and U.S. News and World Report. Morningstar is a financial investment-based publication.

Answer to #2

A
Today's nurses have access to a large variety of resources on evidence-based practice. Some of these that are journal-based include Health Affairs, Hasting Report, Advances in Nursing Science, and Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing. Some resources that are not journals, but are Internet or Web-based, include Centre for Evidence-Based Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau, Research Centre for Transcultural Studies in Health, and Cochrane Collaboration.

Answer to #3

D
A number of characteristics have been identified and associated with professionals. Some characteristics specifically assigned as professional values include caring, equality, truthfulness, ethics, and nonjudgmental attitude. Professional characteristics concerned with professional behaviors and attributes include: political awareness, self-discipline, time-management skills, appearance, initiative, and effective communication.

Answer to #4

D
Nurse-sensitive patient outcomes are those that can be impacted directly and indirectly by nursing practice. Some of these nurse-sensitive outcomes are deep vein thrombosis, pneumonia, shock, cardiac arrest, and failure to rescue (Needleman, Buerhaus, Mattke, Stewart, & Zelevinsky, 2002).

Answer to #5

B
The first Nightingale Training School for Nurses was opened in 1860 at St. Thomas's Hospital in London, England. This school has also been referred to as the first Nightingale School of Nursing.

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