A long-term care facility's organization reflects a functional structure. Which facility practice reflects a basic weakness in this organizational strategy?
1. The nursing department is responsible for writing the client's comprehensive care plan.
2. The dietary department is responsible for nutritional assessment.
3. All nursing tasks fall under the nursing department.
4. Physical and occupational therapy departments coordinate and evaluate activities of daily living.
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Rationale 1: In functional structure, individual departments are grouped and responsible for specific tasks. A weakness of the functional structure is that coordination of services across departments is poor. Nursing would find it difficult to write a comprehensive care plan without input from other departments.
Rationale 2: In functional structure, individual departments are grouped and responsible for specific tasks. The dietary department would be responsible for nutritional assessment in this structure, so this is not a weakness.
Rationale 3: In functional structure, individual departments are grouped and responsible for specific tasks. All nursing tasks would be grouped under the nursing department, so this is not a weakness.
Rationale 4: In functional structure, individual departments are grouped and responsible for specific tasks. Physical and occupational therapy would logically coordinate and evaluate activities of daily living, so this is not a weakness.
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