You are working on a labor and delivery unit in the local hospital
Your supervisor informs you that the hospital wants to look at outcomes of postpartum infections and then compare them with other institutions that are of similar size and have similar clientele. You recognize that the hospital will be doing which of the following? a. Auditing c. Benchmarking
b. Quality performance d. Downsizing
C
You recognize that the hospital is benchmarking. This process involves the organization comparing an aspect of its outcomes with the outcomes from another institution that is of similar size and has similar clientele.
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a. Hyperactivity b. Constipation c. Diarrhea d. Dry mouth e. Hypertension
The nurse will gather information about which organ system to figure a patient's Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score?
1. Integumentary 2. Lymphatic 3. Hematologic 4. Endocrine
After a class discussion on teamwork, the instructor asked the participants if they could identify some of the disadvantages of teamwork. Which of the following responses would indicate that further teaching is needed?
a. Teams may take longer to accomplish a task or achieve a goal. b. Teams equalize power through shared governance. c. Team process takes time, effort, and resources. d. Team members may disagree on the best course of action to take for a specific situation.
A meta-summary involves developing a list of abstracted findings from the primary studies and calculating the:
A) Intensity effect size B) Frequency effect size C) Specific effect size D) Manifest effect size