Chapter 1 - Overview of professional nursing concepts for medical surgical nursing 2023 Update 100% Rated

adverse event - ANS-a variation in the standard of care autonomy - ANS-an ethical principle in which one is capable of making informed decisions about one's own care, aka self-determination, self management. beneficence - ANS-An ethical principle in which nurses promote positive actions to help others care coordination - ANS-The deliberate organization of and communication about patient care activities between two or more members of the health care team including the patient to facilitate appropriate and continuous health care to meet that patient's needs care transition - ANS-Actions designed to ensure safe effective coordination and continuity of care as patients experience a change in health status primary health care provider or setting the nurse plays a vital role in patient centered care transition management case management - ANS-A process to ensure quality and cost effective services and resources to achieve positive patient outcomes clinical judgment - ANS-The observed outcome of critical thinking and decision making. It is an iterative process that uses nursing knowledge to observe and access presenting situations, identify a prioritize, client concern, and generate the best possible evidencebased solutions in order to deliver safe client care. culture of safety - ANS-An environment that provides a blame-free approach to improving care in high-risk, error-prone health care settings using interprofessional collaboration. delegated responsibility - ANS-using A nursing activity skill or procedure that is transferred from a licensed nurse to a delegate usually an LPN VN or assistive personnel AP in a selected patient care situation early warning system EWS - ANS-A guide for the health care team to quickly determine a patient's condition on the basis of a physiologic scoring matrix ethics - ANS-A theoretical and reflective domain of human knowledge that addresses issues and questions about morality in human choices actions character and ends...