As a nurse manager in a for-profit hospital, you are interested in promoting teaching programs for physicians, because evidence suggests that hospitals with teaching programs tend to promote better care for patients.Your administration indicates that it cannot support your ideas or proposal because of: (Select all that apply.)

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Teaching hospitals tend to incur higher costs because of the salaries required for supervision of physicians, duplication of tests and procedures through the learning process, longer times required to process patients, costs of state-of-the art technology, biomedical research, and stand-by capacity of specialized care.Because of the additional costs, few for-profit agencies and organizations support teaching programs.

As a Nurse Manager in a For-Profit Hospital, You Are