A Nurse Is Explaining the Multiple Systems That Impact Patient

question 13

Multiple Choice

A nurse is explaining the multiple systems that impact patient care to a group of nursing students. Which statement by the nurse is correct?

• A) "Important information about the patient, including demographics and patient identification, is communicated by the admitting, discharge, and transfer system."
• B) "The admitting, discharge, and transfer system identifies resources, patterns, and variances in care to prevent costly complications."
• C) "Identifying the right resources for care and implementing preventive treatments are accomplished through the financial systems."
• D) "Acuity systems help provide decision support and automated alert functionality."

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Definitions:

Underlying Continuum

An uninterrupted sequence or range in which items change gradually from one condition, form, or level to another, and are not perceived as discrete steps.

Nominal Level

The most basic level of measurement that categorizes data without implying any quantitative order or degree of difference between the categories.

Median

The middle value in a data set, separating the higher half from the lower half, providing a measure of central tendency that is not influenced by extreme values.

Central Tendency

A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of an entire distribution of data, such as the mean, median, or mode.