Maternal child nursing care in Canada 2nd Edition Elsevier Acute Care Notes Week1-5 Study Guide

Collaborative problems - is a potential physiologic complication that nurses monitor to detect onset or change in status and manage using medically-prescribed and nursing-prescribed interventions to prevent or minimize the complication. ● Evidence-based practice - is the process of collecting, processing, and implementing research findings to improve clinical practice, the work environment, or patient outcomes. ● Client-centered care - Providing care that is respectful of, and responsive to, individual patient preferences, needs and values, and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions. ● Family centered care - is a partnership approach to health care decision-making between the family and health care provider. ● Culturally sensitive care - Nurses must strive to enhance their ability to provide patient-centered care by reflecting on how their and the patient’s culture, values, and beliefs impact the nurse-patient relationship. ○ Nurses must understand how the bio-psychosocial needs and cultural background relate to health care needs. ● Interprofessional collaboration - is a process that occurs when professionals from different areas of expertise along with patients, families and communities combine elements of respect, mutual understanding and shared decision making to develop working relationships to maximize health care delivery and outcomes. lOMoARcPSD| Develop an understanding of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) safety competencies framework and the six core domains that are shared by all health care professionals to contribute to patient safety and its application to client and families in their acute care experience. ● Fundamental in creating a culture of safety across the spectrum of care is educating healthcare providers about patient safety and enabling them to use the tools and knowledge to build and maintain a safe system. ● The 2020 Safety Competencies Framework (2nd Edition) is a simple, powerful and flexible framework that includes enabling competencies that can be adopted and adapted by diverse healthcare programs to design curricula to teach safety and quality for any sector or healthcare program. ● It can also be a valuable resource to policy makers, regulators and accreditors to guide system change. ● The Six Domains support moving patient safety evidence into action and has strengthened its content with advancements in collective knowledge that include patient/family partnership, leadership, quality improvement and cultural competency concept