The Nurse Manager of a Critical Care Unit Is Explaining

question 12

Multiple Choice

The nurse manager of a critical care unit is explaining the AACN Synergy Model to the critical care nurses. What should the manager include as basic parts of this model? Select all that apply.

• A) Based on the patients' characteristics
• B) Based on the competencies of the nurses
• C) Patient outcomes will be measured
• D) The nurses' assessment of patient outcomes will be measured
• E) Reduction of cost to provide critical care services to patients

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Definitions:

Specification Weight

The assigned importance or influence of a specification detail in the context of product design or quality assessment.

Process Capability Index

A statistical measure that quantifies how well a process is able to produce output within its specification limits.

Specification Fill Weight

This term denotes the required or specified quantity of product to be filled into a container according to predetermined standards.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or spread of a set of data points relative to its mean, used to quantify the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of data values.