Exam 15: Care Delivery Strategies

Differentiated nursing practice,or staff mix,is a model of clinical nursing practice that combines different categories of health care personnel employed for the provision of direct client care.What is the biggest aspect of this model in decreasing its success?

When comparing functional nursing and primary nursing,a nurse manager,after evaluating particular models of nursing care for potential adoption,determines that patient and nurse satisfaction in primary nursing are:

In comparing team and functional models of care,a nurse manager favours the team model.In particular,she finds that the team model:

In the hiring of nurses during the transition from team nursing to a primary nursing model,Benner's (2001)work suggests that you give priority to nurses who are at least at which level of competency?

A conflict develops between an associate nurse and a primary nurse over the assessment of a patient with pulmonary edema.On the basis of her assessment of the patient,the associate nurse insists that it is her role to change the care plan because she is the one who has made the assessment.As the nurse manager,you clarify that:

A patient complains to you that she has no idea who "her nurse" is on any given day."I ask one nurse for my pills,and she says,'That is not my job.' I ask the pill nurse about my lab tests,and she says that I should ask another nurse." The nursing care delivery model most likely to be employed in this situation is

When hiring a case manager for a rehabilitation setting,you are most likely to consider which of the following?

A patient is admitted to a medical unit with pulmonary edema.His primary nurse admits him and then provides a written plan of care.What type of educational preparation best fits the role of primary nurse?

For a nurse manager in the functional nursing model,which approach will assist in maintaining staff satisfaction in this specific model?