The Nurse Is Interviewing for a Position in a Newly

question 14

Multiple Choice

The nurse is interviewing for a position in a newly opened hospital. Which observation would best indicate to this nurse that the organization follows a shared governance model?

• A) Among the documents provided by the human resources department is an organizational chart of the nursing department, indicating that the director is the highest-ranking member.
• B) Conversation with a staff nurse reveals that the nurse feels empowered in making patient care decisions.
• C) The mission statement of the hospital describes centralized power.
• D) A staff nurse mentions that each individual staff member has complete autonomy.

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Standard Deviation

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Z-Score

An index that quantifies how far a particular value stands from the dataset's mean, measured in units of standard deviations away from the mean.

Z-Scores

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Z-Score

A statistical metric that describes a value's relationship to the mean of a group of values, measured in terms of standard deviations.