At the End of a Scheduled Work Shift, the Nurse

question 3

Multiple Choice

At the end of a scheduled work shift, the nurse asks each of his patients if there was anything he could have done to make their day more comfortable. The nurse is most likely participating in which process?

• A) Quality improvement
• B) Self-assessment
• C) Continuous quality improvement study
• D) Departmental assessment

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Definitions:

Nucleic Acid

A complex organic substance present in living cells whose molecules consist of many nucleotides linked in a long chain, essential for life and involved in the storage and transmission of genetic information.

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Strep Infection

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Rheumatic Fever

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