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Professional Prep | Grade A+
• patient-centered care -✓✓recognizes the patient as the source of control and full
partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for
patient's preferences, values, and needs
• safety -✓✓providing safe and efficient care to all patients; provide more good
than harm
• safety- 3 central imperatives -✓✓trust, reporting, improvement
• teamwork and collaboration -✓✓cooperate, collaborate, communicate, and
integrate care in teams to ensure that care is continuous and reliable
• informatics -✓✓using technology to create and collect data to make information
to form knowledge and with that knowledge build wisdom
• evidence based practice -✓✓integrate best research with clinical expertise and
patient values for optimum care
• quality improvement -✓✓use data to monitor outcomes of patient care processes
and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve
the quality and safety of healthcare systems
• PICOT -✓✓patient/population, intervention, comparison, outcomes, time
• culturally congruent care -✓✓consistent, harmonious, non-conflicting; begins by
openly acknowledging the uniqueness of multiple-heritage individuals seeking to
learn about their lived experiences
• HIPAA -✓✓Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
• HIPAA Regulations -✓✓data must be secure; applies to family members unless
adult patient communicates that it is acceptable to share; law requires only
, necessary information shared among providers, insurers, and patient; "need to
know" basis
• barriers to adopting EBP -✓✓time, value of EBP in the organization, lack of
knowledge, lack of resources and skills, resistance to change
• strategies for establishing EBP in patient care settings -✓✓cultivate a spirit of
inquiry; ask questions and look for answers; listen for concerns on units as you
work
• spirituality in nursing -✓✓an awareness of one's inner self and sense of
connection to a higher being, nature, or some purpose greater than oneself;
patient's individual belief can effect the way a patient wishes to be cared for,
treated, meals they can eat, etc.
• Nurse Practice Act -✓✓legal provisions in each U.S. state regulating nursing
practice; intent is to protect public and enforce acceptable standards of practice
• AHRQ -✓✓Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; produce evidence to
make healthcare safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable,
and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with
other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used
• NQF -✓✓National Quality Forum; for healthcare quality measurement and
reporting, not for profit membership organization created to develop and
implement a national strategy for health care quality measurement and reporting
• Joanna Briggs Institute -✓✓international not-for-profit, research and
development;
promote and support the synthesis, transfer and utilization of evidence through
identifying feasible, appropriate, meaningful and effective healthcare practices to
assist in the improvement of healthcare outcomes globally
• 2020 National Patient Safety Goals -✓✓identify patients correctly; improve staff
communication; use medications safely; use alarms safely; prevent infection;
identify patient safety risks; prevent mistakes in surgery