Nurse Manager

Answer: B - A type of bar graph that reflects the major causes of a problem is a Pareto chart. Pareto charts allow us to determine the greatest causes of a particular problem and then to establish priorities in terms of corrective action. For example, documentation errors may be occurring as a result of legibility, signature, and omission problems. Upon analysis, it is determined that illegible documentation is occurring more often than errors of omission or the lack of a signature. The illegibility problem, therefore, is the highest priority.

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