Nurses need to change practice focus to generating the best patient outcomes rather than being centered on accomplishing tasks. One way to do this is to:
A. Use the functional method of nursing care delivery.
B. Require all nurses be paired with an unli-censed patient assistant.
C. Assign each RN a research project due at the end of every month.
D. Practice evidence-based nursing care.
ANS: D
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A Incorrect because the functional nursing care delivery system is very task oriented.
B Incorrect because just by pairing unli-censed with licensed personnel there is no certainty that best patient outcomes will be generated.
C Incorrect because RNs conducting re-search projects every month does not in-dicate that task-focused thinking and higher patient outcomes will occur.
D Correct because best practices that are va-lidated in the literature from all over the world have demonstrated the best patient outcomes.
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