A cardiac rehabilitation clinic hired a nurse practitioner to manage the clinic. The nurse practitioner had recently obtained critical care certification. What type of power does the nurse practitioner have?
a. Charismatic power
b. Informal power
c. Coercive power
d. Expert power
ANS: D
People gain expert power through knowledge, skills, and information. Personal power can be derived from the ability to make decisions because of expert or information power and from the ability to provide resources because of reward power.
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1. The small bowel in feces. 2. The gallbladder through the liver. 3. The kidneys through urine. 4. It is evaporated out the skin.
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