Given the production function between nurse hours and patient visits per day in a community clinic, how each of the following shift this function: A change in nurse remuneration from salary to fee-for-service  A change in policy to provide more thorough examination's An increase in the severity of the patients treated An increase in nurse wages

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Given the production function between nurse hours and patient visits per day in a community clinic, how each of the following shift this function:

A change in nurse remuneration from salary to fee-for-service 

A change in policy to provide more thorough examination's

An increase in the severity of the patients treated


An increase in nurse wages

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Production function is equal to the function of P/N.

 The production function between nurse hours (N) and patient visits (P) per day in a community clinic.

 

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