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Accountability Correct Answers With increased autonomy,
comes greater responsibility and accountability. You are
responsible, professionally and legally, for the type and quality
of nursing care provided.
Actual nursing diagnosis Correct Answers Describes human
responses to health conditions or life processes
Acute care Correct Answers Secondary and tertiary care.
Focuses on diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Most
common and expensive service. Settings: hospital ER, urgent
care centers, critical care units, inpatient med-surg units. (ICU
most expensive)
ADN program Correct Answers 2 years associates degree
offered by a university or community college. Focuses on the
basic sciences and theoretical and clinical courses related to the
practice of nursing.
Adult day care centers Correct Answers Provide a variety of
health and social services to specific patient populations who
live alone or with family in the community. May be associated
with a hospital or nursing home or may operate independently.
Offer services like physical rehab and counseling.
ANA Correct Answers Scope and standards of nursing
practice. Concerned with legal aspects of nursing practice,
public recognition of the significance of nursing practice to
,health care, and implications for nursing practice regarding
trends in health care. Documentation began in 1960. 6 standards
of practice: assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification,
planning, implementation, evaluation
Applying necessary attitudes to the nursing process Correct
Answers Fourth component of the critical thinking model is
attitudes. 11 attitudes define central features of a critical thinker.
Guidelines for how to approach a problem or decision-making
situation.
Ex: Humility: Recognize when you need more info to make a
decision. When you are new to a clinical devision, ask for an
orientation to the area. Ask RNs reg. assigned to the area for
assistance with approaches to care. Table 15-3!!!!
Approaches to changing organizational patient care policies and
procedures Correct Answers ???
Assessment Correct Answers Deliberate and systematic
collection of info about a patient to determine his or her current
and past health and functional status and his or her present and
past coping patterns. Clearly defining patient's problems. Moves
from general to specific.
Benner and Wrubel Correct Answers Caring is central; caring
means that persons, events, projects, and things matter to people
BSN program Correct Answers 4 years baccalaureate degree
at a college or university. Focuses on basic sciences, theoretical
and clinical courses and courses in the social sciences, arts, and
humanities to support nursing theory.
, Capitation Correct Answers Payment mechanism by which
providers receive a fixed amount per patient or enrollee of a
health care plan. "cap" = counting heads, counting patients
Clara Barton Correct Answers Founded American Red Cross
Clinical decision making Correct Answers Requires critical
thinking; judgement that includes critical and reflective thinking
and action and application of scientific and practical logic; think
creatively and search for the answer; separates professional
nurses from technical and ancillary staff; acknowledge and act
quickly
Table 15-1!!!!!
Clinical practice guidelines Correct Answers Systematically
developed set of statements that helps nurses, physicians, and
other health care providers make decisions about appropriate
health care for specific clinical situations
Cognitive implementation skills Correct Answers Application
of critical thinking in the nursing process
Competencies related to critical thinking Correct Answers
Scientific method, decision making, clinical decision making,
problem solving, diagnostic reasoning and inference, nursing
process as a competency
Concept mapping Correct Answers Visual representation of
patient problems and interventions that illustrates an