There are multiple mergers and acquisitions of various health-care organizations. Which of the following is an advantage of this ongoing trend?
A. Need for less professional education be-cause employees can learn from each other on the job
B. More opportunity to use institutional li-censure for UAPs
C. Opportunity to use more UAPs and less professional staff
D. Sharing resources to decrease cost ex-penditures
ANS: D
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A Incorrect because nurses need more pro-fessional education than ever before.
B Incorrect because there is no institutional licensure for UAPs.
C Incorrect because having less professional staff is not an opportunity but a disadvan-tage that has been proved to cause in-creased mortality.
D Correct because nurses do need to share expenditures when possible to expand re-sources
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