A nurse is educating a group of community members about how hypertension screening is effective in reducing the rate of cardiovascular disease, thus reducing the expenses that are spent on management of this disease. Which of the following ratios is being described?
a. Cost-disease analysis
b. Cost-efficiency analysis
c. Cost-benefit ratio analysis
d. Cost-effectiveness analysis
Answer: c. Cost-benefit ratio analysis
You might also like to view...
A new board member is orientating to the cost analysis of the hospital?s budget. The CFO (chief financial officer) explains which of the following contains the highest cost for the organization:
1. Nursing budget. 2. Dietary budget 3. Environmental services budget. 4. Laboratory budget.
The nurse sits with a patient who is tearful after receiving a diagnosis of new onset multiple sclerosis. The patient is fearful of further physical degeneration, and the nurse listens and helps the patient express her fears
What role is the nurse performing? 1. Consultant 2. Advocate 3. Researcher 4. Counselor
After the physician has performed a liver biopsy, the nursing interventions would usually include
a. allowing the patient to get up to use the bathroom if he desires. b. keeping the patient on the right side for minimum of 2 hours. c. taking vital signs every 4 hours. d. keeping the patient on the left side for minimum of 4 hours.
A client has been readmitted for right lower lobe pneumonia. The client asks why he keeps getting pneumonia on the right side and not the left
Based on this information, which point will help a nurse emphasize with the client why the right bronchus is more susceptible to fluids or foreign objects than the left? A) The right bronchus is short. B) The right bronchus is narrow. C) The right lung has three lobes. D) The left lung has two lobes.