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The formal process of using patient data for providing evidence for the design of care protocols is termed:

When nurses portray an attitude that their cultural group is superior to another, it is known as practicing the concept of cultural:

An approach for decreasing nursing RN skill mix was implemented in a one size fits all approach across organizations in the 1990s. These changes in skill mix led to:

The staffing method used when units are staffed below maximum workload conditions and staff is then supplemented when needed is called:

Which organizational theory emphasized the informal aspects of organization social structure and was influenced by the Hawthorne experiments?

Nurses utilize _____ through critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills to determine when and how to apply evidence-based knowledge.

Donabedian’s aspects of quality include: (Select all that apply.)

An experienced critical care nurse left a CCU staff nurse position to finish a master’s degree. Periodically, he would return to work as a per diem nurse in the CCU. The staff was impressed with the nurse’s performance; however, one staff member complained that he was unfamiliar with the new telemetry monitors when he first returned to work several months ago. This comment showed up in his evaluation, resulting in a poorer overall evaluation from the nurse manager compared with previous evaluations. This is an example of:

Nurses working on the intermediate care unit have had many hours of overtime in the last 6 months. Before forming a team, the nurse manager gathers data about patient condition severity, staffing ratios, educational levels of staff, and personality mixes on each shift. What level of decision making is this process?

According to the _____ organizational approach, organizations are logical and predictable with identifiable and scientifically measurable characteristics that can be predicted, observed, or manipulated.