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Personal and Professional Development: A nurse-manager is planning a performance appraisal of an employee who has a number of performance deficiencies. What is the best approach to the performance appraisal of this employee?

Relationship Centered Care: A nurse-manager needs to discipline an employee and wants to ensure that it leads to constructive outcomes. What is the primary difference between constructive and destructive discipline?

Knowledge and Science: A nurse-manager is focusing on management controlling functions that are associated with quality control. What task best addresses this goal?

Context and Environment: The leadership of a large health-care organization is considering the adoption of Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scales (BARS) for the performance appraisal system. This change in practice may require what task by the nurse-manager?

Quality and Safety: What action should the nurse-manager and other leaders in the health-care organization perform in order to ensure that a quality control program will be effective?

Context and Environment: A nurse-manager has referred staff members to a clinical practice guideline (CPG) that addresses the prevention of pressure ulcers. What is a characteristic of this CPG?

Context and Environment: A nurse-manager and several colleagues are reviewing the results of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey. These results will allow the team to make what assessment?

Personal and Professional Development: An inexperienced nurse-manager has been excessively favorable to employees in their performance appraisals in an effort to garner their approval and acceptance. This strategy is likely to lead to what unintended consequence?

Every second, 120 mC of charge flow through the cross section of a wire. The wire’s current is

Ohm’s law relate potential difference,  current, and resistance as: ∆ V = I R . The current through a wire is measured as the potential difference is varied. What is the wire’s resistance? Picture3(3).jpg