California was the first state to mandate nurse-to-patient _____
a. staffing plans c. staffing patterns
b. staffing ratios d. staffing departments
B
By January 2005, hospitals in the state of California were required by the California legislature to meet a 1:5 (nurse-to-patient) staffing ratio in all medical-surgical units. Similar legislation is pending in other states, such as Massachusetts.
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Which nursing diagnosis would be most appropriate for this presentation? a. Sexual dysfunction b. Relational impairment c. Ineffective sexuality pattern d. Impaired sexual arousal
Which of the following statements synopsize the relationship between research and practice? (Select all that apply.)
a. Practice limits nursing research to issues that are client-centered. b. Research participation helps nurses to meet re-licensure requirements for evidence-based practice. c. Research knowledge, combined with experiential wisdom, constitutes the base for practice. d. Research emphasizes what can be done in practice, rather than what has been done in practice. e. Practice does not affect research: research affects practice. f. Practice provides inspiration for meaningful nursing research. g. Practice helps a nurse differentiate between rigorous, well-designed research and useless research.
Which medication would have the least risk to a fetus if given to a pregnant client?
1. Estrogen with progesterone (Ortho Novum) 2. Warfarin (Coumadin) 3. Potassium chloride (K-Lor) 4. Ranitidine (Zantac)
As computerization of medical systems and health records progresses, and numerous systems become linked, a likely outcome might be:
a. obscuration or piracy of individual identities b. longer delays in aggregate and individual processing of data c. misdiagnosis because individual data are not considered d. ability to comprehensively search information on any condition