Exam 13: Organizational Structure

The patient is a 69-year-old woman who has a history of diabetes mellitus, peripheral vascular disease, and myocardial infarctions. She was admitted to the hospital with a stroke and is being transferred to a subacute facility and then to a rehabilitation facility. At every admission, she must review her entire history, provide telephone numbers of family members, list all 30 of her medications, and list all home care and medical supply companies. Also, at each facility, a physician or nurse practitioner completes a total history and physical about her and orders the same laboratory tests to be done. This is an example of:

Benefits of using a matrix structure in the hospital setting include:

A group of nurse entrepreneurs from the American Nurses Association has formed to develop a new coding system for nursing language. This coding system will enhance billing and could be used with a computer software program. This scenario best depicts which type of organizational structure?

Which organizational theory emphasized the informal aspects of organization social structure and was influenced by the Hawthorne experiments?

Managers apply their leadership skills to their reporting relationships to release energy and talents of people in a manner that adds value to the work they perform. What are some examples of the effects of added value (select all that apply)?

The network or pattern of social relationships and friendship circles within an organization is known as the: