A team of nurses who provide care in a community hospital have been encouraged to participate in continuing educational activities. Why is continuing education needed in nursing?
A) Continuing education helps to delineate the distinctions between nurses and physicians.
B) Continuing education increases the public visibility of individual nurses and the nursing profession.
C) Continuing education has the potential to partially alleviate the nursing shortage.
D) Continuing education allows for safer division of labor on hospital units and more effective delegation of tasks.
C
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Health care officials hope that enrollment in all nursing programs and continuing education will reduce the current and projected critical shortage of nurses. Continuing education is not driven by a desire to increase the visibility of nursing, to draw distinctions between nursing and medicine, or to facilitate the division of labor.
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