Exam 12: Care Delivery Strategies

The nurse manager at a cardiac rehabilitation unit was asked to select a care delivery model.Which of the following methods would be the most cost-effective?

When hiring a case manager for a rehabilitation setting, you would most likely consider a:

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

When interviewing an applicant for an RN position, the nurse manager describes the unit's care delivery system as one in which the nursing assistants are cross-trained to perform specific tasks and the RNs complete all treatment, medication administration, and discharge teaching.The nurse applicant knows this nursing care delivery strategy to be:

Complex care of acutely ill patients is required on a surgical unit, which utilizes differentiated nursing practice as its model of care delivery.On what is the concept of differentiated nursing practice is based?