One of Your First Tasks as the New Manager of Health

question 1186

Multiple Choice

One of your first tasks as the new Manager of Health Information Services is to review the department policy and procedure manual. You have determined that several policy statements are incongruent with appropriate current employee practices. Proper management conventions require

• A) leaving the policy as written in the manual.
• B) contacting the hospital attorney to decide what action to take.
• C) enforcing the existing policy.
• D) revising the policy appropriately and documenting the date of the change.

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