The Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS) Was Designed To

question 23

Multiple Choice

The Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS) was designed to:

• A) determine differences in care delivery between the holder of an associate degree in nursing and a bachelor's of science in nursing.
• B) evaluate the nursing language of NANDA, Nursing Interventions Classification, and Nursing Outcomes Classification.
• C) provide data for leaders to make decisions about staffing patterns.
• D) standardize the collection of nursing data across populations.

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Definitions:

Defective Items

Products or goods that fail to meet quality standards.

Sampling Distribution

The chance distribution of a chosen statistic, produced from a sample taken at random.

Standard Deviation

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

Sampling Distribution

The chance distribution of a specified statistic obtained from a random sample, employed for making deductions about the overall population.