A Nurse Is Working with a Hospital Team to Create

question 10

Multiple Choice

A nurse is working with a hospital team to create an emergency response plan that will meet Joint Commission requirements. Which sections should be included in this plan?

• A) A method to predict when a disaster will occur through close attention to news and weather reports
• B) A method to recognize that a disaster is imminent or occurring with plans to reduce the disaster's impact
• C) A plan whereby policies and procedures as well as equipment and personnel are in place to handle disasters
• D) Policies and procedures that operationalize actual activities during the disaster
• E) Policies and procedures describing what will occur immediately after the disaster

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Definitions:

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a data set.

Central Tendency

A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of an entire distribution of data, often used are the mean, median, and mode.

Median

A statistical measure representing the middle value in a set of data, where half the numbers are above the median and half are below.

Correlation

A measure indicating the extent to which two or more variables fluctuate together.