Which statement is an example of the overall goal of quality management in today's health care activities?
1. The administrator walks around making a list of potential problems.
2. The nurse wipes up a spilled drink before clients are allowed to enter.
3. The Human Resources Department lets nonproductive employees go.
4. The nurse manager realizes a policy was ineffective in reducing incidents.
Answer: 2
Rationale: The focus of quality management is on ways to prevent problems and to improve quality of care. Identification of failed standards is reactive and not proactive. Assessment of problems within the organization was the focus of quality management in the past. Identification of inefficient employees is reactive, as opposed to proactive.
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word