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A Client Arrives in the Emergency Department and Is Pale

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A client arrives in the emergency department and is pale and breathing rapidly. The client immediately becomes unconscious and collapses to the floor. The nurse rapidly assesses the client and decides the first series of actions needed. Which type of planning is the nurse demonstrating?


Definitions:

Formalization

The process of creating formal rules and procedures to standardize organizational activities and decisions.

Simple Structure

A term used in organizational theory referring to an organizational design with low departmentalization, wide spans of control, centralized authority, and minimal formalization.

Professional Bureaucracy

A decentralized form of organization that emphasizes the expertise of the professionals in the operating core of the organization.

Machine Bureaucracy

A moderately decentralized form of organization that emphasizes support staff differentiated from the line operations of the organization, limited horizontal decentralization of decision making, and a well-defined hierarchy of authority.

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