MATCHING Health Care Providers Often Confuse Evidence-Based Practices, Research, and Performance

question 2

Multiple Choice

MATCHING
Health care providers often confuse evidence-based practices, research, and performance or quality improvement activities. They each contribute to the improvement of patient care in different ways. Match the description below with the type of activity it most closely represents.

-2. Evidence-based practice

• A)The nurse implements a set of guidelines to reduce falls after an extensive review of the literature.
• B)The nurse investigates a new falls reduction strategy and measures its ability to reduce falls.
• C)The nurse implements a process in her unit to ensure all patients receive a falls risk evaluation upon admission.

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Definitions:

Resource Demand

The demand for resources or inputs (like labor, capital, and raw materials) that are necessary for production.

Elasticity of Resource Demand

Measures the responsiveness of the quantity demanded of a resource to a change in its price, indicating how changes in price influence resource allocation.

Percentage Change

A mathematical calculation that represents the degree of change over time as a proportion of the initial value, often expressed as a percentage.

MRP

Can also refer to Marginal Revenue Product, the additional revenue generated from employing one more unit of a resource or factor of production.