A staff nurse educates a nursing student about collaborative health care teams. The staff nurse recognizes that additional teaching is warranted when the nursing student lists which of the following as a characteristic of a collaborative health care team?
a. They are composed of a single health care discipline in order to maintain cost effectiveness.
b. They are broadly classified as multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary teams.
c. Two or more skilled clinical practitioners will combine efforts in providing care.
d. There is an expectation that care will be provided collaboratively.
Question 2When working on a hospital unit, the nurse should begin the discharge planning process at which time?
a. With a careful review of initial admission data.
b. Within 24 hours of the hospital admission.
c. Just prior to the client's hospital admission.
d. Immediately before the client is discharged.
Question 3The nurse recognizes that a characteristic of effective team collaboration includes which of the following?
a. It promotes inclusion of the client and family.
b. It increases fragmentation of client care.
c. It discourages synergistic creativity among professionals.
d. Its goal is to duplicate efforts to promote safe, high-quality care.
Question 4The nurse is working within an interdisciplinary team. The nurse recognizes that interdisciplinary teams are characterized by
a. only formal interactions.
b. individual problem solving.
c. absence of overlapping of professional roles.
d. a common mission of working together to resolve complex clinical problems.
Question 5The nurse is teaching at a community center about how the focus on care provision has shifted from the hospital to the community and a public health focus.
The nurse teaches the community members that health care systems organized around acute, episodic care no longer suffice as a primary service model due to the complexity of contemporary health care, which requires a different care process to match new health realities. The nurse lists which of the following reasons for this?
a. Decreased ethnic and racial diversity
b. Overall shorter life spans secondary to superinfections
c. Oversupply of highly skilled physicians and registered nurses
d. Higher incidence of chronic health conditions
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