As a nurse manager in a for-profit hospital, you are interested in promoting teaching programs for physicians, because evidence suggests that hospitals with teaching programs tend to promote better care for patients
Your administration indicates that it cannot support your ideas or pro-posal because of (select all that apply): a. Increased salary costs.
b. Duplication of tests and procedures.
c. Graduate medical education.
d. Potential damage to reputation through learner error.
A, B, C
Teaching hospitals tend to incur higher costs because of the salaries required for supervision of physicians, duplication of tests and procedures through the learning process, longer times re-quired to process patients, costs of state-of-the art technology, biomedical research, and stand-by capacity of specialized care. Because of the additional costs, few for-profit agencies and organi-zations support teaching programs.
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