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1. What is a major cause of the nursing shortage?
A. Lack of recognition
B. Voluntary overtime
C. Supportive managers
D. Positive image of nurses - Answer A
2. Recommended strategies to decrease the nursing shortage include all of the following except:
A. Improving scheduling and ensuring safer staffing levels
B. Giving nurses a bigger voice in their work and providing collaborative teaching of doctors and nurses
C. Providing diversity training and implementing best practice strategies for preventing lateral hostility
D. Promoting current TV shows about nursing and health care - Answer D
3. Retaining older nurses is one way to decrease the nursing shortage. Recommended strategies to retain
older nurses include all of the following except:
A. Implementing flexible work schedules, using shorter shifts, decreasing patient-nurse ratio, and
promoting a professional nurse practice environment
B. Fostering respect for people in general and for older nurses specifically by improving lighting at the
bedside, providing adequate training in the use of
technology, using larger print and fonts, installing raised toilets, purchasing adaptive beds, using
mechanical patient lifts, installing softer floors, and providing
waist-high electrical outlets
C. Making modifications to the work environment, implementing ergonomics in health care facility
design, structuring decentralization, and decentralizing
workstations and storage of supplies and equipment
D. Increasing job responsibilities - Answer D
4. The method that involves financing care is:
, A. Managed care
B. Team nursing
C. Functional nursing
D. Case method - Answer A
5. The staffing system that involves critical paths, variation analysis, intershift reports, case consultation,
health care team meetings, and quality assurance is:
A. Team nursing
B. Case management
C. Functional nursing
D. Primary nursing - Answer B
6. The staffing system that focuses on promotion of health and management of chronic and terminal
diseases is:
A. Primary nursing
B. District nursing
C. Managed care
D. Case method - Answer C
7. Differentiated practice primarily involves all of the following except:
A. Competency
B. Education
C. Skill
D. Experience - Answer D
8. It is probably most economical for health care to be provided by:
A. Professional nurses
B. Technical nurses
C. Unlicensed personnel