The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative defined teamwork and collaboration within health care as having four key elements. Which of the following is not one of these key elements?

a. the whole is greater than the sum c. mutual respect
b. fostering open communication d. shared decision making


A
The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative focuses on fostering open communication, mutual respect, shared decision making, and functioning effectively within nursing and interprofessional teams, not "the whole is greater than the sum," which is part of the definition for the term synergy.

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