A patient is admitted with congestive heart failure, diabetes mellitus, and dementia. He has a new dark spot on the top of his toes on his right foot. The nurse contacts the primary care physician, consults with the wound care specialist nurse, writes a nursing order for a referral to the diabetic educator, and contacts the discharge planner to facilitate future discharge plans. Which of the following care delivery models best describes how the nurse is providing care?

A hospital organizational culture that assumes customer needs and wants should determine the quality, price, and availability of a product. This type of orientation is:

The implementation of an electronic health record (EHR) could enhance patient care by facilitating:

Nurses who are successful at time management:

The field in health care that aims at a better understanding of the end results of health care practices and interventions is called:

Staff nurses involvement in budgeting is essential because they:

Jay, a nurse in the intensive care unit, has been caring for a patient with end-stage renal disease, congestive heart failure, and a stroke. The client has had four cardiac arrests in 4 days. Despite the grave prognosis, the client’s family continues to want resuscitation at all cost. Jay knows that further medical care is futile. Jay is at risk for:

_____ has garnered considerable attention in health care in part because of the publication Crossing the Quality Chasm, a health care quality initiative of the Institute of Medicine (IOM, now called the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division).

Which of these statements are true about culture?

A hockey puck is set in motion across a frozen pond. If ice friction and air resistance are neglected, the force required to keep the puck sliding at constant velocity is