Exam 9: Current Issues and Trends

Sustainability in health care is defined as the appropriate balance of which of the following factors, leading to optimal health and health care outcomes for individuals, communities, and the present and future populations?

The nurse manager has identified that there are areas in the hospital and on her unit where money could be saved. She has decided to look into these areas to see what plans can be made. According to the four guiding principles of health care sustainability, the nurse supervisor knows that eliminating inefficiencies, unsafe practices, and waste are examples of meeting which of the following guiding principles? (Select all that apply.)

Suter, Oelke, Adair, & Armitage (2009) identified universal principles of successful integrated health care systems that could be used by decision-makers to assist with integration efforts. How many universal principles were identified?