Which statement about change in hospitals reflects the impact on nursing?
1. Nurses need to gather more data about the positive effects that nursing care has on patient outcomes in the acute care setting.
2. Nurses need to advocate for more unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) to help nurses provide quality, low-cost care.
3. Nurses need to be more assertive in obtaining longer hospital stays for patients who have not reached their expected outcomes due to complications.
4. Nurses continue to provide patient education without difficulty despite changes occurring in hospitals.
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Explanation: 1. Some studies support the positive effects nursing care has on patient outcomes in the acute care settings; nurses need data to demonstrate that decreasing nursing staff in hospitals will increase patient complications and affect outcomes negatively.
2. An increasing number of UAPs has increased staff stress and concern for errors and potential legal consequences.
3. Rather than advocating for longer hospital stays, nurses should be more focused on the prevention of complications.
4. Providing patient education in acute care has become even more difficult with the decreasing length of stay. Patients are sicker when they enter the system and their length of stay is shorter, so they are not able to absorb patient education information.
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