The role of the professional nurse has evolved to emphasize:
1. providing care to patients directly at the bedside.
2. planning patient care to cover longer hospital stays.
3. leading the activities of a team of interdisciplinary health care providers.
4. managing care to cure health problems once they have occurred.
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1. Incorrect. This is one task of the role of a nurse but is not what encompasses the notion of the evolved professional nurse.
2. Incorrect. One goal of managed care is decreased, not increased, length of stays.
3. Correct. Professional nurses are part of the team of health care providers who collabora-tively care for patients in the managed care model.
4. Incorrect. Nurses do not cure health problems; they care for patients with health care ail-ments.
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