A Chief Nursing Officer (CNO)wants to Respond to a Threatened

question 19

Multiple Choice

A chief nursing officer (CNO) wants to respond to a threatened reduction in nursing positions in a hospital where financial conditions are poor.Which action by the CNO would be best?

• A) Compare nurse-patient ratios nationwide, describing the impact of layoffs.
• B) Hire a lobbyist to put political pressure on the hospital's administration.
• C) Prepare a cost-benefit analysis of the effect of nursing care in that hospital.
• D) Use a cost-minimization strategy to show how nursing costs can decrease.

Understand the role and characteristics of DNA polymerases in DNA synthesis and repair.

Describe the impact of environmental factors, such as UV radiation, on DNA integrity and the necessity for repair mechanisms.

Distinguish between the different types of nitrogenous bases and their pairing rules.

Acknowledge the significance of telomeres and telomerase in DNA replication and cellular aging.

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Definitions:

p < .001

p < .001 indicates that the probability of the observed data, or something more extreme, assuming the null hypothesis is true, is less than 0.1%, which is considered highly statistically significant.

Within-group Variability

The measure of how much individual observations in a single group differ from each other in a dataset.

Null Hypothesis

A statement in statistics that assumes there is no significant difference or effect in a given situation, until evidence proves otherwise.

Sample Size

The number of subjects included in a study, influencing the study's ability to reliably detect effects or differences.