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Autonomy and Accountability: ✔Correct Answer-An essential element of professional nursing
that involves the initiation of independent nursing interventions without medical orders.
Caregiver: ✔Correct Answer-Helps patients maintain and regain health, manage disease and
symptoms, and attain a maximal level of function and independence through the healing
process.
Advocate: ✔Correct Answer-Protecting your patient's human and legal rights and provide
assistance in asserting these rights if the need arises.
Educator: ✔Correct Answer-Explains concepts and facts about health, describe the reason for
routine care activities, demonstrate procedures such as self-care activities, reinforce learning or
patient behavior, and evaluate the patient's progress in learning.
Communicator: ✔Correct Answer-Your effectiveness as a communicator is central to the
nurse-patient relationship. It allows you to know your patients, including their strengths and
weaknesses and needs. Communication is essential for all nursing roles and activities.
Manager: ✔Correct Answer-Today's health care environment is fast paced and complex. this
kind of nurse needs to establish an environment for collaborated patient-centered care to
provide safe, quality care with positive patient outcomes. He or she also coordinates the
activities of members of the nursing staff.
Administrator: ✔Correct Answer-Manages patient care and the delivery of specific nursing
services within a health care agency.
Researcher: ✔Correct Answer-Conducts evidence based practice and research to improve
nursing care and further define and expand scope of nursing practice.
Describe the different role expectations of the registered nurse:
(12 TERMS) ✔Correct Answer-1. delegator
2. collaborator
3. leader
4. change agent
5. researcher
6. administrator
,7. manager
8. communicator
9. educator
10. advocate
11. caregiver
12. autonomy and accountability
Demonstrate an understanding of the attitudes and qualities essential and inherent to safe,
quality client-centered care: (12 TERMS) ✔Correct Answer-1. perseverance
2. fairness
3. integrity
4. confidence
5. independent thinking
6. discipline
7. humility
8. responsibility/authority
9. risk taking
10. curiosity
11. creativity
12. compassion/caring/empathy
What are KSAs (knowledge skills and attitudes): ✔Correct Answer-Elements that are targeted
cognitive knowledge, psychomotor skills and affective attitudes, Nurses use their head, heart
and hands.
Describe effective management of conflict and conflict resolution:
(14 TERMS) ✔Correct Answer-1. The way you communicate matters (clear communication)
2. Be polite, respectful and kind
3. Apologize when necessary
4. Think first (think before you speak or do)
5. Avoid negative communication
6. Use facts (evidence based practice)
7. Collaborate
8. Offer assistance (be attentive, helpful and involved)
9. Be responsible/accountable
10. Do not abuse your power as a nurse
11. Speak directly to the person causing the conflict
12. Demonstrate openness
13. Listen well (use good eye contact)
14. Uphold professional code of ethics
Identify the nurse's responsibilities for establishing and maintaining professional boundaries: (2
TERMS) ✔Correct Answer-1. Keeping space between the nurse's power and patient's
vulnerability.
,2. Pay attention to what you say/post on social media and what kind of work related
information you talk about with your family and friends.
Discuss methods for management of stress and role strain while in the professional setting: (14
TERMS) ✔Correct Answer-1. Avoid compassion fatigue
2. Healthy nurse, healthy nation (do self-care activities)
3. B an advocate for your patient's and yourself
4. Regular exercise
5. Eat a balanced, healthy diet
6. Routine schedule of restful sleep
7. Balance between work and leisure
8. Honoring emotional needs
9. Have support systems
10. Time management
11. Guided imagery and visualization
12. Progressive muscle relaxation
13. Assertiveness training
14. Journal writing
Identify the qualities and responsibilities of an effective leader:
(8 TERMS) ✔Correct Answer-1. be unbiased
2. listen effectively
3. have good eye contact
4. use the appropriate tone of voice
5. have good body language
6. be attentive/involved
7. be present/helpful
8. be understanding
Identify the overall purposes of the nursing process to guide and direct the practice of safe,
quality nursing care: (2 TERMS) ✔Correct Answer-1. Provide patient safety, patient-centered
care, use evidence based practice, informatics, quality improvement and teamwork and
collaboration.
2. RN's are responsible for making accurate and appropriate clinical decisions or judgements.
What is the nursing process? ✔Correct Answer-A critical thinking five-step process that
professional nurses use to apply the best available evidence to care-giving and promoting
human functions and responses to health and illness. It is the fundamental blueprint for how to
care for patient's.
Relate the concepts of critical thinking and clinical reasoning to nursing process knowledge and
skills. (5 TERMS) ✔Correct Answer-1. Apply critical thinking by using knowledge base,
experience, competencies, attitudes and standards.
2. Critical thinking is the process of intentional higher-level thinking to define a client's problem.
, 3. Clinical reasoning is the cognitive process that uses thinking strategies to gather, analyze and
evaluate information.
4. Use implementations of interventions.
5. Know what you are doing and why (rationale).
What is critical thinking: ✔Correct Answer-The process of intentional higher-level thinking to
define a client's problem.
What is clinical reasoning: ✔Correct Answer-The cognitive process that uses thinking
strategies to gather, analyze and evaluate information.
Identify the components of the nursing process: (5 TERMS) ✔Correct Answer-1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Plan
4. Implement
5. Evaluate
Discuss the importance of assessment data in the development of a client-centered plan of
care: (2 TERMS) ✔Correct Answer-1. The assessment phase is all about accurate and thorough
data collection.
· Use cues (info that you obtain through use of the senses) and inferences (your judgement or
interpretation of the cues).
2. Always ask open-ended questions by back channeling (having them elaborate) and probing
(coaxing them tell you what they are feeling) during interview.
Patient assessments can be: (3 TERMS) ✔Correct Answer-1. comprehensive
2. Focused (periodic)
3. emergency
The two stages of assessment are: (2 TERMS) ✔Correct Answer-1. Collection of information
from a primary source and secondary source
2. The interpretation and validation of data to ensure a complete database
Where does primary source information come from: ✔Correct Answer-The patient
Where does secondary source information come from:
(4 TERMS) ✔Correct Answer-1. family
2. friends
3. other health professionals
4. medical records
Establish and prioritize a nursing diagnosis based upon assessment data: (2 TERMS) ✔Correct
Answer-1. the nurse must always take vitals