After a New Management Company Took Over the Operations of a Hospital

question 5

Multiple Choice

After a new management company took over the operations of a hospital many changes in policy were made. The nurse manager overhears a conversation in the break room that included comments such as, "I don't know why I even try" and "No one pays any attention to us anyway." What results of these feelings should the nurse manager watch for on the unit? Select all that apply.

• A) Lack of creative problem solving in the staff
• B) Deterioration in morale
• C) Increased effort by other nurses to make needed changes
• D) New staff being increasingly alienated from those who have been employed longer
• E) Change in the culture of the unit

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Definitions:

Continuous Probability Density Functions

Mathematical functions that describe the likelihood of all possible values of a continuous random variable.

Z-score

A numerical indicator that shows how a value compares to the average of a set of values, expressed as the number of standard deviations away from the mean.

Normally Distributed

A type of continuous probability distribution for a real-valued random variable, characterized by a symmetric bell-shaped curve.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the individual values deviate from the mean.