A communication system developed originally to address communication patterns in critical situations is:

Nursing leaders and managers participate in marketing by promoting the value nursing brings to the organization. This level of market planning is:

A temporary group of individuals formed to carry out a specific mission or project is known as a:

Utilizing the DECIDE acronym for the process of decision making, what are the first and final steps in the process? (Select all that apply.)

Subunit or _____ power refers to relationships across departments.

The Joint Commission’s (TJC’s) emergency management accreditation standards call for hospitals to sustain disaster operations for at least ______ hours.

Which of the following statements is true about the New England Medical Center (NEMC) case management model?

Nurses on the midnight shift are experiencing difficulty with receiving materials from the central supply department. Last night a patient was admitted to the unit from the emergency department with a heart dysrhythmia. The nurse requested that a temporary pacemaker kit be placed in the unit as a standby in case the patient required its use. The central supply unit did not comply until the patient required its emergent use. The nurse was stressed. This is an example of which type of stress?

Attributes of a total quality organization according to BNQA include: (Select all that apply.)

An intravenous infusion center is considering switching intravenous pumps to another vendor. A team of nurses is gathered to examine the benefits and uses and to conduct a cost analysis of various intravenous pumps. After thoroughly reviewing the data and piloting several intravenous pumps, the team votes to determine which pumps to use. The nurses selected the pump which provides them with the most safeguards for safe infusion delivery. Which type of decision-making tool was used in this process?