NUR 301 Final Exam – Comprehensive Study Guide and
Practice Questions
EMR computerized provider order entry - correct answer ✔✔ -computerized version of the
traditional clinic, agency, or hospital record for a patient or client
-legal document
-centralized patient/client database for the clinic, agency, hospital
-typically individual provider or agency silo's
-Process where providers directly enter orders into computerized healthcare information
systems rather than writing orders on paper charts
-Eliminates lost orders and illegible writing
-Improve quality and convenience, ensures accuracy, care coordination
-Generates related orders (e.g., labs)
-Monitors for duplicate orders and contraindications
-Reduces order filling time
-Multiple clinicians can access at the same time
-Specialized to each specific agency
-Decision Support Systems (DSS)- online references and messages from a clinical knowledge
base that may be patient-patient specific, centralized access to cumulative patient data and
information including trends like vitals and labs, automatic reminders for preventative practices
like immunizations, drug alerts for dosing and interactions, immediate access to electronic
resources
PDSA - correct answer ✔✔ -Plan, Do, Study, Act
-Care for the patient, communicate with the patient, report to appropriate parties, document
-Evidence based practice driven
-What are we trying to accomplish, how will we know that it is an improvement, what change
can we make from the improvement
, -IHI model for improvement
Autonomy - correct answer ✔✔ -patient' right to self-determination
Values Clarification - correct answer ✔✔ -Process by which people understand their own values
and value system or another person's values and value systems
-Values process- choosing(freely from alternatives after consideration), prizing (pride, treasuring
happiness, and public affirmation), acting (combining choice into one's behavior with
consistency and regularity on the value)
Ethical Principles - correct answer ✔✔ -Autonomy- self-determination; freedom of choice
-Nonmaleficence- avoid harm
-Beneficence- promote good
-Justice- seek to treat people fairly
-Fidelity- keep promises
-Veracity- tell the truth
-Paternalism - one individual assumes the right to make decisions for another
-Confidentiality- keep privileged info private
-Utility- the good of the many outweighs the wants or needs of the individual
Role modeling with values transmission - correct answer ✔✔ -Modeling by parents, peers,
significant others, and authority figures
Values Transmission - correct answer ✔✔ -role modeling- modeling by parents, peers,
significant others, and authority figures
-moralizing- taught holistically by authority figures or organizations
-laissez-faire- individuals discover on their own without external guidance
-rewards and punishments- from authority figures
Practice Questions
EMR computerized provider order entry - correct answer ✔✔ -computerized version of the
traditional clinic, agency, or hospital record for a patient or client
-legal document
-centralized patient/client database for the clinic, agency, hospital
-typically individual provider or agency silo's
-Process where providers directly enter orders into computerized healthcare information
systems rather than writing orders on paper charts
-Eliminates lost orders and illegible writing
-Improve quality and convenience, ensures accuracy, care coordination
-Generates related orders (e.g., labs)
-Monitors for duplicate orders and contraindications
-Reduces order filling time
-Multiple clinicians can access at the same time
-Specialized to each specific agency
-Decision Support Systems (DSS)- online references and messages from a clinical knowledge
base that may be patient-patient specific, centralized access to cumulative patient data and
information including trends like vitals and labs, automatic reminders for preventative practices
like immunizations, drug alerts for dosing and interactions, immediate access to electronic
resources
PDSA - correct answer ✔✔ -Plan, Do, Study, Act
-Care for the patient, communicate with the patient, report to appropriate parties, document
-Evidence based practice driven
-What are we trying to accomplish, how will we know that it is an improvement, what change
can we make from the improvement
, -IHI model for improvement
Autonomy - correct answer ✔✔ -patient' right to self-determination
Values Clarification - correct answer ✔✔ -Process by which people understand their own values
and value system or another person's values and value systems
-Values process- choosing(freely from alternatives after consideration), prizing (pride, treasuring
happiness, and public affirmation), acting (combining choice into one's behavior with
consistency and regularity on the value)
Ethical Principles - correct answer ✔✔ -Autonomy- self-determination; freedom of choice
-Nonmaleficence- avoid harm
-Beneficence- promote good
-Justice- seek to treat people fairly
-Fidelity- keep promises
-Veracity- tell the truth
-Paternalism - one individual assumes the right to make decisions for another
-Confidentiality- keep privileged info private
-Utility- the good of the many outweighs the wants or needs of the individual
Role modeling with values transmission - correct answer ✔✔ -Modeling by parents, peers,
significant others, and authority figures
Values Transmission - correct answer ✔✔ -role modeling- modeling by parents, peers,
significant others, and authority figures
-moralizing- taught holistically by authority figures or organizations
-laissez-faire- individuals discover on their own without external guidance
-rewards and punishments- from authority figures
