A Nurse Manager Must Consider a Number of External Variables

question 9

Multiple Choice

A nurse manager must consider a number of external variables when preparing the personnel budget and projecting the unit's staffing needs.An external variable to be considered is:

• A)Organizational staffing policies.
• B)Staffing models.
• C)Changes in services that will be offered.
• D)Department of Health licensing standards.

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Definitions:

Matched Pairs

Matched pairs are a research design in which pairs of subjects are closely matched on key characteristics, with one subject in each pair receiving the treatment and the other serving as a control.

Population Variances

A measure of spread within a distribution or how much the members of the population differ from the population mean.

Pooled-variances T-test

A statistical method used to compare the means of two groups, assuming that the two populations have equal variances.

Rejection Region

In hypothesis testing, it is the range of values for which the null hypothesis is rejected in favor of the alternative hypothesis.