Costing out nursing services relies on nursing interventions that are initiated by ____.
a. Medical and nursing diagnoses
b. Physician contacts
c. Primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of care
d. Treatment needs
Question 2Measuring the productivity of nurses is complex because the ____.
a. Care outcomes should never be associated with cost
b. Disease processes and nursing outcomes are not well understood
c. Most efficient combination of resources for performing care processes is not known
d. Use of diagnosis-related groups is not widespread
Question 3Historically, many of the changes that have occurred in nursing or have affected the profession are the result of what type of change?
A) Planned
B) Change by drift
C) Rational-empirical
D) Normative-re-educative
Question 4Becoming adept at using the production process allows nurse leaders to analyze the ____.
a. Accountability of licensed nurses
b. Effectiveness of staff communication modules
c. Impact of making input substitutions
d. Potential for human error
Question 5What is change by drift?
1 . Unplanned
2 . Accidental
3 . Planned
4 . Threat
A) 1, 2
B) 1, 3
C) 2, 4
D) 3, 4
Question 6A diabetic educator is participating in a production process analysis. She has been asked to determine the monetary amount associated with purchasing one handheld computer for a client.
The figure that the diabetic educator is looking for is the ____. a. Dollar trend
b. Price
c. Revenue need
d. Total cost
Question 7What is important to incorporate in change?
A) Change should be planned and implemented quickly.
B) Change should be planned and implemented gradually.
C) Change should be planned and implemented sporadically.
D) Change should be planned and implemented suddenly.
Question 8The most basic form of economic evaluation that is fundamental to all other forms of economic evaluation is a(n) ____.
a. Budget report
b. Cost analysis
c. Operational expense report
d. Strategic plan
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