The Nurse Manager Is Attempting to Determine the Staffing Needs

question 21

Multiple Choice

The nurse manager is attempting to determine the staffing needs of the unit.One tool that she may use to determine the level of care needed would be:

• A)the standardized care plan.
• B)the acuity record.
• C)the patient care summary.
• D)flow sheets.

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Definitions:

Empirically

Referring to knowledge or conclusions derived from observation, experimentation, or measurement rather than theory or pure logic.

Organizing

The act of arranging or structuring elements in a systematic way for efficiency and order.

Retrospective Sense Making

Weick’s view of how people construct rational accounts of organizational behavior after the fact—“how do I know what I think until I see what I say?”

Rational Accounts

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