Nurses are empowered in their organizations when they are held accountable. This allows each accountable nurse to have:
A. Similar decision-making ability as the physicians
B. More power in the practice arena
C. Excuses for not being able to complete patient assignments on time
D. The ability to automatically negate other health-care team members' recommenda-tions
ANS: B
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A Incorrect because nurses do not have sim-ilar decision-making ability as physicians.
B Correct because nurses who are empo-wered have more power.
C Incorrect because accountable and empo-wered nurses do not use excuses.
D Incorrect because being empowered would not allow nurses to automatically negate others' recommendations.
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