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Leadership Week 7 Ex
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The individual in a clinical nurse specialist role would be known as holding the: | staff position. |
Changing the operational process of an organization is often necessary when adding or updating patient care and health information technologies. Three key dimensions of the organization design to engage in making this change are: | centralization. coordination. formalization. |
Identify the elements of organizational structure that address patient safety. What structural changes do you recommend for further improving safety in an organization using organizational design principles? | Empowering employees to report problems or potential problems, encouraging innovations and improvements in processes, and rewarding continual learning and exploration |
A health care organization plans to integrate an electronic health record (EHR), health information network, and clinical data analysis into all clinical areas. Using the five theories of organization as a social system would put forward to manage the cha | Open systems theory where the leaders emphasize the dynamic interaction and interdependence of the organization with its external environment and internal subsystem |
A complex combination of a hierarchical structure with project teams is the definition of which type of organization structure? | Matrix |
A collaborative process of assessment, planning, facilitation, care coordination, evaluation, and advocacy for options and services to meet multiple service needs of clients and families is known as: | case management. |
Variables that influence nursing practice and client care delivery include: | skill mix for client condition severity, nurse-to-client ratio, use of temporary staff, workload, nursing education and experience, and technology level. |
When clients are grouped together and cared for by one nurse, this is known as: | group nursing. |
Nurses involved in the selection or development of a nursing care delivery system should consider which of the following as important? | Fiscal accountability, client characteristics, staffing composition, case mix severity, and clinical service intensity Practice guidelines and new medication information and technology Role of the RN, practice expectations, accountability of nurses, |
Nurse managers, in collaboration with nursing leadership, design nursing systems for the provision of client care and the betterment of the organization. Nurse managers should consider which of the following as important? | They should include staff nurses in the development and selection process of the professional practice model. |
Which of the following statements correctly describes case management? | Registered nurses (RNs) have emerged as the large majority of case managers, especially in hospitals, because of their specialized expertise for the function of determining medical necessity for health care payment and because of care coordination for com |
Although all clients need coordinated care, population health management best serves the needs of targeted, high-risk populations for: | building personal relationship to identify knowledge deficits, counseling needs, facilitate monitoring, treatment adherence, and stabilization. |
Multiple unique goals are achieved with case management services that are different from the goals of managed care. Nurses as case managers contribute to which of these goals? | Coordinating client-focused care by planning and arranging access to appropriate services and interventions Providing nursing interventions to meet diagnosed client needs in the most cost-effective manner Tracking outcomes and guiding services acros |
A model of population care coordination would include: | data analysis of population, population needs assessment, identification and selection of health services, multidisciplinary planning, implementation of wellness and prevention interventions, and monitoring/evaluation of care management. |
Leaders and managers should know the many aspects of case management. Identify the two correct statements. | Case management entails providing holistic care, conservation of resources, and care across episodes and settings. A current trend is the push for accountability and accreditation for case management organizations. |
Case managers were deployed to decrease fragmentation; reduce expense by streamlining care; and control costs by linking, advocating, coordinating, negotiating, educating, and monitoring. Today the model that guides hospitals and clinics to case manage is | Public health guides the health care organization to coordinate and integrate services across the continuum from hospital to community to reduce costs and eliminate redundancy of services. |