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Why should job seekers in the healthcare sector pay attention to advances in healthcare technology?

Which of the following statements are true regarding HCAPS? Select all that apply.

Three gravely ill patients are candidates for the only available bed in the ICU. As the supervisor, you assign the bed to the patient with the best chance of recovery. This decision reflects which of the following ethical principles?

Which best describes the desired outcome of decreased readmission rates?

A colleague asks you to give her your password access so that she can view her partner’s healthcare record without using her login. This request violates the patient’s right to:

A member of a patient’s family calls the nurse manager of the palliative care unit to express concern that a member of the family, who died on the weekend, had requested analgesics from the RNs on duty. An RN came with the analgesic nearly 45 minutes later, just after the patient had died. The manager is aware that the unit was especially busy that weekend because many patients were seriously ill, staff had called in ill, and the staffing manager was unable to completely replace staff who were absent. The manager is deeply troubled that the family member had to die in pain because it violates what she knows should have been done. This manager is experiencing:

Which factors impact rising cost of health care? Select all that applyaging

You volunteer at a free community clinic. A 13-year-old girl presents with chlamydia. The team leader at the clinic advises that:

A patient suffered a brain injury from a motor vehicle accident and has no brain activity.  The patient has a living will which states no heroic measures.  The family requests that no additional heroic measures be instituted for their son.  The nurse respects this decision in keeping with which principle?

Nurses can advocate for resources through lobbying state and federal legislatures?