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MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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2. A medical-surgical unit reports higher rates of patient satisfaction coupled with highrates
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MSC: Client Needs: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
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