When interviewing an applicant for a position, the nurse manager describes the unit's care delivery system as one in which each nursing assistant is cross-trained to perform specific tasks, and the RNs do all treatment, medication administration,
and discharge teaching. The nurse ap-plicant knows this nursing care delivery strategy to be: a. The case method.
b. Functional nursing.
c. Primary nursing.
d. Nurse case management.
B
The functional model of nursing is a method of providing patient care by which each licensed and unlicensed staff member performs specific tasks for a large group of patients.
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Which of the following disorders is the leading cause of upper GI hemorrhage?
a. Stress ulcers b. Peptic ulcers c. Nonspecific erosive gastritis d. Esophageal varices
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a. Negative valence and expectancy value of 1 b. Positive valence and expectancy value of 0 c. Positive valence and expectancy value of 1 d. Negative valence and expectancy value of 0
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