1)The Gallup Poll has revealed that: A)nursing is the most highly rated profession in the United States

1)The Gallup Poll has revealed that: A)nursing is the most highly rated profession in the United States.

B)nursing is the second most highly rated profession in the United States.

C)the rating of the nursing profession has increased in recent years.

D)the rating of the nursing profession has decreased slightly in recent years.

2)The demand for nursing is: A)a derived demand.

B)impossible to determine.

C)not affected by demographic forces.

D)not affected by technological advances.

3)Published studies involving the cost-effectiveness of nursing care: A)are numerous in the literature.

B)generally reveal that nursing care is costeffective.

C)have decreased in number in recent years.

D)demonstrate mixed results on the costeffectiveness of nursing care. Indicate True or False for the following statements:

4)The economic value of nursing care is easier to determine than that of the services provided by many other

professions.

5)Nurses do not need to be very interested in the monetary worth of the care they provide.

6)A profit-maximizing firm should hire additional workers as long as the marginal benefit of an additional worker is greater than the marginal expense of the additional worker.

7)One of the factors of nursing costeffectiveness examined in the Dall et al. (2009) study was hospital-acquired

pneumonia.

8)The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) places little emphasis on evidence based medicine.