A nurse who performs a skin assessment while bathing an immobile client would be displaying:
1. Efficiency
2. Leadership
3. Organization
4. Effectiveness
ANS: 1
Effective use of time means doing the right things, whereas efficient use of time means doing things right. The nurse is showing efficiency by combining various nursing activities—in other words, doing more than one thing at a time. Organization is a general term that may include effi-ciency, while leadership is the ability to manage people and resources.
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