Line Staff Relationship Flashcards
Among the following position, the ____ has no authority to make decisions for the facility.
Assistant to the administrator
Decisions made by persons on the staff to whom the administrator has delegated line authority are, in the final analysis, regarded as decisions by _____.
The administrator
When a nurse practitioner, who is more highly qualified than the director of nursing, give orders to nurses in the hallways, the director of nursing should feel____.
Undermined
In times of crisis, corporate representatives, who hold a staff or advisory relationship to their counterparts in the local facility, may expect that their advice as staff be ____.
Acted on as carrying line authority
As a generalization, it can be asserted that managerial success belongs to those who _____.
Successfully prepare for the future
Nursing home administrators should anticipate and successfully prepare for ____.
Rapid and far reaching
The long term care industry has entered a period in which ____ change (s) can be expected.
Rapid and far reaching
The ability to accurately predict the future implications for nursing facilities of new trends to which the present environment may offer small clues is the skill needed to successfully ____.
Forecast
Historically, during the 1970s and early 1980s (until the diagnosis related group method of reimbursement, i.e., the DRGs) nursing facility administrators made long range projections during a period of ____.
Relative stability in the health care field
The rate of change in the health care field care field is believed to be ___.
Increase exponentially
Researchers have predicted that every 10 years ____ of all current knowledge and accepted practices in the health care and other industries will be ___.
One- fourth Obsolete
It is conceivable that the core business of the nursing home in this decade will ____ the core business of the nursing home of the next decade.
Be entirely different from
According to Kriegel, one should expect that over the next few decades the rules governing the nursing home will be _____.
New, never experienced before
Nursing homes that stick to conventional formulas for success, according to Kriegel, are/will _____.
Miss new markets and be in a backwash
In the next it is argued that for the first time in human history the capacity exists to provide ______.
More health care than any nation can afford
