What is the single greatest factor that contributes to the struggle of today's nurses to "know" the client?
1. Nursing shortage
2. High client acuity
3. Shorter hospital stays
4. Increasing client loads
ANS: 4
Nurses have increasingly less time to spend with clients, making it much harder to know who they are. Nursing shortages, high client acuity, and shorter hospital stays are all contributing fac-tors to why nurses have increasing client loads and less time with the patient.
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