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When providing care to patients, nurses use evidence-based practice to avoid urinary tract infections whenever the insertion of a urinary catheter is performed by:
 
  a. A UAP.
  b. An RN.
  c. An LPN.
  d. A senior nursing student.

Question 2

The term quality assurance has been replaced with: __________.
 
  a. quality improvement
  b. quality management
  c. risk management
  d. patient safety

Question 3

When providing care to patients at risk for ARDS, nurses use evidence-based practice whenever they:
 
  a. Suction a patient at high risk for developing ARDS every 2 hours.
  b. Suction a patient at high risk for developing ARDS whenever crackles are aus-cultated.
  c. Turn a patient at risk for developing ARDS every 2 hours.
  d. Turn a patient at risk for developing ARDS every 5 minutes.

Question 4

When engaging in population-based health care, a goal of the nurse would be to do which of the following?
 
  a. Maintain access to health care services c. Reduce health care disparities
  b. Maintain quality of health care services d. Increase health care delivery costs

Question 5

Registered nurses can be identified as which of the following within health care professionals?
 
  a. Culture c. Group
  b. Subculture d. Organization

Question 6

Name and describe the two things health care workers can expect in their workplace with respect to decision making.
 
  What will be an ideal response?
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6 years ago
Answer to #1

B

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A There is no evidence to support the use of this staff member in inserting urinary catheters to avoid urinary tract infections.
B Research supports the use of only RNs to insert urinary catheters to avoid uri-nary tract infections.
C There is no evidence to support the use of this staff member in inserting urinary catheters to avoid urinary tract infections.
D There is no evidence to support the use of this staff member in inserting urinary catheters to avoid urinary tract infections.

Answer to #2

a

a. Correct: In health care, the term quality assurance has been replaced by the term quality improvement because quality assurance suggests we can assure quality and, while we cannot do this, we can improve it.
b. Incorrect: In health care, the term quality assurance has been replaced by the term quality improvement, not quality management.
c. Incorrect: In health care, the term quality assurance has been replaced by the term quality improvement, not risk management.
d. Incorrect: In health care, the term quality assurance has been replaced by the term quality improvement, not patient safety.

Answer to #3

D

Feedback
A There is no evidence to support this as a measure to reduce the risk for patients to develop ARDS.
B There is no evidence to support this as a measure to reduce the risk for patients to develop ARDS.
C There is no evidence to support this as a measure to reduce the risk for patients to develop ARDS.
D Research has shown that turning patients at risk for developing ARDS every 5 minutes reduces that risk. There are hospital beds now designed to provide that care.

Answer to #4

C
The goals of population-based health care include reduction of health disparities among different
population groups, improvement of access to health care services, improvement of quality of health
care services, and reduction of health care delivery costs.

Answer to #5

B
Smaller groups within a culture are called subcultures. Subcultures may consist of professional and
occupational affiliations (nurses), nationality or race, age groups, gender, socioeconomic factors,
political viewpoints, and/or sexual orientation.

Answer to #6

Correct answers should include the following points.
o Transparencythe expectation of today's workers to know what decisions are made by managers as well as how these decisions are made
o Participative democracyclinicians participate in decisions made in the workplace
CCashley Author
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6 years ago
Electric Light Bulb All of these are right, thanks!
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