Exam 4: Organizational Structure for Effective Care Delivery

What is a primary factor in the increasing interest in the use of chiropractic care?

What is the oldest of the nursing care models?

The nursing student clinical group is attending the first clinical session of the semester. What nursing care delivery model do students usually expect to follow?

What has caused some of the concern about the use of unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP)?

Several small rural hospitals have been acquired by a large nationwide healthcare organization. Six months after the acquisition, the rural hospitals remain in conflict with the management team and with one another. Choose the questions that the management team should ask in order to identify the reasons for this continued discord. Select all that apply.

The obstetrics department, which is composed of labor and delivery, postpartum, nurseries, and the neonatal intensive care unit, operates under what organizational structure?

The healthcare organization is undergoing reorganization to a service-line structure. What are the benefits of this structure? Select all that apply.

Which factor would least likely be included in the analysis of an organization?

Which options are included in the six dimensions of shared governance? Select all that apply.

The patient who had a colonoscopy one hour ago suddenly experiences bright red rectal bleeding, becomes diaphoretic, and is short of breath. The nurse decides to implement standing emergency orders and initiates oxygen per mask and increases the patient's IV rate, while a colleague contacts the patient's physician. Which critical element of nursing is this nurse demonstrating? Select all that apply.

The marketing process includes which three elements listed below? Select all that apply.

This morning, the RN is assigned to administer medications to all of the patients on the medical-surgical unit. From this assignment, the RN knows that this organization adheres to which type of patient care delivery model?

Choose the statements that are correct about not-for-profit healthcare organizations. Select all that apply.

The nurse is interviewing for a position in a newly opened hospital. Which observation would best indicate to this nurse that the organization follows a shared governance model?

The primary physician identifies a healthcare provider to manage the care of a patient on the general medical unit of a hospital. Depending upon the facility, which healthcare provider may fill this role? Select all that apply.

What is a disadvantage of using the team approach for care delivery?

The organizational analysis documentation describes the organization as one with centralized leadership with a clearly defined organization chart hierarchy. The organization is divided into departments and follows detailed rules and regulation. This organization follows which theories? Select all that apply.

The nurse is organizing a smoking cessation group for the residents of a retirement center. 8What level of healthcare services does this represent?

Compare and contrast input, process, and output in systems organizational theory by selecting the options that represent process. Select all that apply.

These four principles of marketing are used to guide development of a marketing plan, focusing on the critical elements of the plan. Select all that apply.