One reason that the nursing profession must partner with other groups is to:

One reason that the nursing profession must partner with other groups is to:
 
  A. Collect data about other organizations so they do not steal consumers.
  B. Role model for physicians' best-care practices.
  C. Acquire more resources to give best poss-ible patient care.
  D. Share responsibility of around-the-clock patient care.

Question 2

As nurses delegate more and more tasks to unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP), it becomes essential that nurses learn to:
 
  A. Bring out the best qualities of each of the team members to foster collaboration.
  B. Test the knowledge of the UAP on a daily basis.
  C. Develop time management lists for each UAP with the specific tasks they must do.
  D. Assign least experienced UAPs the most complex patients.

Question 3

It is significant for the profession of nursing to assist nurses in seeing their work as a collaborative process with the other professional team members rather than as a:
 
  A. Handmaiden career that gives orders to the other health-care disciplines
  B. Task-oriented group primarily interested in accomplishing orders from physicians
  C. Profession that prides itself on task com-pletion versus positive patient outcomes
  D. Profession interested only in self-glory that they are knowledgeable about patient conditions

Question 4

Which of the following best describes ongoing quality improvement (QI)?
 
  A. Identification of critical pathway va-riances
  B. Evaluation of patients' minimum data sets
  C. Measurement of patient satisfaction levels
  D. Ongoing evaluation of quality and patient outcomes