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NUR 425 Exam 1 questions with correct
answers graded A+

DRGs - correct answer ✔✔Prospective payment system for hospitals and other healthcare providers
(diagnosis related groups)



Benchmarking - correct answer ✔✔Comparison of what your hospital is doing to another hospital or
specific standards of care



Need it to improve care



What is the overall goal of quality management? - correct answer ✔✔Reducing errors & preventing legal
issues



Why did many nurses not like the old quality improvement? - correct answer ✔✔The QI nurse seeks to
find the nurse responsible for making errors which usually resulted in disciplinary action



What is one quality in total quality management? - correct answer ✔✔Everyone in the organization must
contribute and be dedicated to continuous improvement



What is the major issue today regarding healthcare cost? - correct answer ✔✔Increasing costs are
causing some employers to limit or drop employee healthcare coverage



What does fewer RNs result in? - correct answer ✔✔Decreased quality of patient care



What is shared governance? - correct answer ✔✔Focus on the nurse having ownership of their practice



Started as an attempt to empower nurses and to change the bureaucratic system

, What occurs in shared governance when it comes to decision making? - correct answer ✔✔Decisions are
made by consensus rather than by the manager's order



Differentiated practice - correct answer ✔✔Rewarding nurses for having higher level degrees



First-level manager - correct answer ✔✔Supervises work of the non-managerial personnel



Mainly responsible for day-to-day activities of the work unit



Day-to-day activities the first-level manager is responsible for - correct answer ✔✔Clinical nursing
practice

Use of resources

Personnel development

Strategic planning

Representing staff to upper admin



Example of a first-level manager - correct answer ✔✔Charge nurse



What does the charge nurse do? - correct answer ✔✔Acts as liaison between nurse manager and staff



Responsible for shift-to-shift managing



Patient assignment for the charge nurse - correct answer ✔✔Should not have the heavier care patients
or isolation patients



What should the charge nurse do when assigning patients to nurses from other units? - correct answer
✔✔Give them patients that are most like the ones from their unit



What tasks is a nurse able to do if they get pulled to a new unit? - correct answer ✔✔Only ones they
have experience with:

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