A for-profit brokerage company that acts as an agent who negotiates for a contract regarding how and when the provision of health care services will be accomplished is called:
a. Medicare. c. integrated health care system.
b. health service organization. d. managed care.
Question 2Which of the following emerged as the answer to cost-efficient quality care?
a. Health care savings plan c. Managed care
b. Evidence-based care d. Planned parenthood
Question 3In caring for a baby with nonlife-sustaining defects, the nurse will most likely make decisions based on:
a. Personal ethical beliefs and values.
b. Treating all patients equally.
c. Treating all patients with respect and courtesy.
d. The futility of life issue.
Question 4When questioning the participants of your in-service program on the disadvantages of working in groups, which response by participants would indicate that further teaching is needed? Some of the disadvantages of working in groups include:
a. the fact that working in groups can be time consuming and it can foster dependency..
b. a potential for personality conflicts and for individual opinions to be influenced byothers..
c. promotion of ownership of problems and solutions..
d. inequity of time to share individual information and dependency may be fostered..