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Hospital Administrator: In each of the past 10 years, as the cost of medical malpractice insurance and of new medical technologies soared, other hospitals have chosen to increase nurses' work loads or patients' cost of care. We have avoided both by eliminating inefficiencies in staffing, and by hiring Licensed Practical Nurses to perform many procedures previously performed by more highly-paid Registered Nurses. So even if our insurance and technology costs increase further, we can continue to avoid increases in nurses' work loads or patient's cost of care.
Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the hospital administrator's conclusion?
A. The hospital pays the prevailing rate for Licensed Practical Nurses, just as it does for Registered Nurses.
B. Registered Nurses still provide some services which Licensed Practical Nurses could perform.
C. As technology improves productivity in most fields, and manufacturers moving to cheaper labor markets decreases costs in other fields, medicine and other areas that still depend on large amounts of domestic labor grow more expensive.
D. Medical malpractice insurance accounts for a smaller portion of health care costs than is commonly assumed.
E. State law allows Registered Nurses to provide a much wider range of services than it permits Licensed Practical Nurses to provide.
Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the hospital administrator's conclusion?
A. The hospital pays the prevailing rate for Licensed Practical Nurses, just as it does for Registered Nurses.
B. Registered Nurses still provide some services which Licensed Practical Nurses could perform.
C. As technology improves productivity in most fields, and manufacturers moving to cheaper labor markets decreases costs in other fields, medicine and other areas that still depend on large amounts of domestic labor grow more expensive.
D. Medical malpractice insurance accounts for a smaller portion of health care costs than is commonly assumed.
E. State law allows Registered Nurses to provide a much wider range of services than it permits Licensed Practical Nurses to provide.
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13 Nov 2020, 00:52
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Hi carcass Skywalker18 I dont understand why B,
I narrowed down to A and B.
Chose A because, if the hospital pays more than the prevailing rate to Licensed Practical Nurses then they will not be able to avoid cost increases in healthcare??
I narrowed down to A and B.
Chose A because, if the hospital pays more than the prevailing rate to Licensed Practical Nurses then they will not be able to avoid cost increases in healthcare??
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Hi, let me take a shot at it:
The hospital admin's conclusion is "we can continue to avoid increases in nurses' work loads or patient's cost of care."
The can do it by reducing the number of "highly-paid Registered Nurses" and "by hiring Licensed Practical Nurse" to do a particular job.
The hospital had done it in the past and to continue doing it in future it should have enough highly paid registered nurse to be replaced with licensed nurses.
If the hospital does not have highly paid registered nurses, which can be replaced then the conclusion will fall apart.
Hence B is correct.
As far as option A is concerned it only says that the prevailing rate is same for both type of nurses, which is an indicator that the quality of treatments will remain the same.
But in the argument we are concerned with nurses work load or patient's cost of care wrt increased insurance and technology costs. For me this is an out of scope choice.
Hi, let me take a shot at it:
The hospital admin's conclusion is "we can continue to avoid increases in nurses' work loads or patient's cost of care."
The can do it by reducing the number of "highly-paid Registered Nurses" and "by hiring Licensed Practical Nurse" to do a particular job.
The hospital had done it in the past and to continue doing it in future it should have enough highly paid registered nurse to be replaced with licensed nurses.
If the hospital does not have highly paid registered nurses, which can be replaced then the conclusion will fall apart.
Hence B is correct.
As far as option A is concerned it only says that the prevailing rate is same for both type of nurses, which is an indicator that the quality of treatments will remain the same.
But in the argument we are concerned with nurses work load or patient's cost of care wrt increased insurance and technology costs. For me this is an out of scope choice.
