How have recent changes in health care delivery affected practice settings for medi-cal-surgical nurses?
A. Third-party payment systems have restricted the delivery of medical-surgical nursing services to acute care hospitals.
B. Managed care organizations prefer less expensive care delivered by unlicensed personnel.
C. Medical-surgical nursing is practiced in community centers and long-term care facilities.
D. The delivery of medical-surgical nursing practice is now limited to adults only.
C
Medical-surgical nursing is practiced in a wide variety of settings. Although hospitals remain the largest employer of nurses, community-based integrated health care centers and long-term care facilities also require nurses with medical-surgical nursing experience.
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