Mary is the manager of the critical care unit. She would like to hire a wound care nurse for the unit. The type of organizational budget Mary would use to ensure she can hire the new nurse is called the _____ budget
a. capital
b. personnel
c. operating
d. expense
B
The personnel budget is the staffing budget of the cost center.
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The nurse knows that basic suicide precautions may be started without a physician's order and maximum suicide precautions (or restrictions):
1. Need a physician's order and a psychiatric consult. 2. May be started on the recommendation of the psychiatric nurse. 3. Can be instituted without a physician's order only under emergency conditions. 4. Cannot be instituted without the client's consent.
The patient's pulse is below 60. The nurse is aware that the patient is not receiving digoxin. What does the nurse suspect is causing the bradycardia?
a. Low exercise tolerance b. Unrelieved severe pain c. Excessive bed rest d. A prone position
The nurse is reviewing recent laboratory values for a client who is being treated for malnutrition. Which laboratory finding indicates that the client is not receiving adequate iron supplementation?
a. Hematocrit, 31% b. Serum albumin, 3.5 g/dL c. Creatine phosphokinase (CPK), 55 U/mL d. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), 15.8 mm/hr
A hospital is concerned with nurse retention and realizes that job satisfaction is a major influence. To enhance employee satisfaction related to staffing, the management team:
a. negotiates for additional agency nurses. b. hires more part-time employees. c. includes participatory management into staffing decisions. d. uses "float" nurses to cover vacancies.