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When a nurse leader is able to fully embrace the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses’ (AACN’s) Healthy Work Environment and engage others in its achievement, what is the leader demonstrating?

_____ are vital to good leaders because they are able to take the vision of the leader and achieve the determined goals.

In the past, health care organizations viewed nursing services as primarily a(n):

A clearly recognizable process of providing care that has an evidence base demonstrating that it reduces the likelihood of harm is:

_____ is an influence tactic where another person is given praise or sympathy in an effort to make the other person feel important.

The decision support department has been asked to create balanced scorecards for each nursing unit. Nurse managers work with decision support on the data elements which will be useful in assessing financial, quality, and other measures in order to improve what?

The nurse has asked a nurse’s aide to greet a postoperative patient who has just arrived on the unit and to determine whether he is in stable condition. This act of delegation is an example of a nurse inappropriately delegating:

If an error occurs as a result of delegation, the nurse is accountable for supervision, follow-up, intervention, and:

An organization has encountered a serious patient safety event that was reported to the state, The Joint Commission, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). An extensive plan of correction was received, and the organization had to make some immediate changes in practice. Additionally the organization anticipates a costly lawsuit. What is the best method of educating staff about the practice changes that were issued?

Which of the following is an example of a nurse-sensitive indicator?