VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+
1. Advanced Practice Nurse (APN)
2. research
3. evidence-based practices
4. integrate
5. highest - ANS ✔✔Major Leadership Role & Competencies of the APN:
- Others look to the _____1_______.
- Staff nurses do not view themselves as active consumers of _____2______, preferring that
educators and nurse leaders gather, synthesize, and report the benefits of adopting new
_____3____.
- Ability to _____4_____ science and knowledge from ethics, biophysical, psychological,
analytical, and organizational sciences as a basis of for the _____5_____ level of nursing
practice.
1. health care delivery
2. strategies
3a. evaluate
,3b. redirect - ANS ✔✔Major Leadership Role & Competencies of the APN:
- Use science-based theories & concepts to:
1. determine the nature & significance of ___________.
2. Create feasible advanced practice __________ to enhance, alleviate & ameliorate health &
health care as appropriate.
3. ____a____ outcomes & ____b____ activities as needed.
EXAMPLE: giving education to stroke patients & families leads to better outcomes and they are
more satisfied.
critical appraisal - ANS ✔✔PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER:
- Understanding the ___________ process lets you determine the study's reliability, validity &
applicability to your patients, families and your clinical practice.
1. guiding
2. evidence - ANS ✔✔1. What is the __________ clinical question?
2. What is the state of the __________ and how is this informing my practice?
EXAMPLE: What key factors affect the long-term management of diabetes in a middle aged
African American male?
, 1. Valid
2a. results
2b. reliable
3. applicability - ANS ✔✔A Quick Appraisal in General of Evidence?
1. Are the study results ____________?
- Results close to the truth or possible?
- Were the best research methods used?
2. What are the ______a_____ & are they ______b_______ =
- Did study interventions work?
- Treatment effect?
- Similar results if implemented in your clinical setting?
3. What is the __________ of the findings?
- Are the subjects similar to the patients for whom your care is being delivered?