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Guide questions with answers |\ |\ |\
1.Define quality assurance: attempts to guarantee when an
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action is performed by a health-care professional is performed
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|\ correctly the first time and every time thereafter is called?
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2.What is the best strategy for dealing with conflict?: Confront the
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conflict
3.What is QSEN?: Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
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Developed to help prepare future nurses who will be needed in
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their health care environments to improve patient safety.
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4.Why is nursing theory important to your practice?:
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Understanding nursing theory helps you to be a better nurse |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
and provide better care for real patients
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5.What is case management?: It is the ongoing review of clinical
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care to ensure the necessity and effectiveness of the services
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being provided to the patient.
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It is conducted concurrently with the patient's stay and and
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,following clients through various phases of care after discharge
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6.What is the difference between a theory and model?: A nursing
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theory refers to a statement involving some element of reality
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that has not been proven and a model is a representation of
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something that exists in reality |\ |\ |\ |\
7.What is a research design?: The critical link necessary to
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connect the re- searcher's framework with the appropriate
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|\ type of data collection?
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8.Why is disaster planning difficult for the elderly population?: They
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have more mobility and chronic disease issues
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9.Why is evidenced-based practice important to nursing
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practice?: Nursing care is based on scientific research and
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proven evidence |\
10.What is the primary role of the Federal Mediation and
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Conciliation Ser- vice?: Bring both sides together to work out |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
a settlement
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11.What is an example of covert lateral violence?: Making faces
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behind their back |\ |\
12.Which elements are commonly a result of workplace incivility?:
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,Toxic work environment, anxiety, psychological pain
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13.A nurse who is off duty discusses a client's medical
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information with her neighbor. This is an example of what type of
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ethical principle?: Breach of confidentiality
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14.What is another name for a health-care proxy?: Medical
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durable power of attorney |\ |\ |\
15.Define clinical reasoning?: The thinking process by which a
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nurse reaches a clinical judgement
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16.How does a Kinesthetic learner learn ?: A student who
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prefers learning by physically doing things or carrying out
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experiments.
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, 17.What is critical thinking?: A combination of:
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Reasoned |\
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Openness to |\ |\
alternatives |\
Ability to reflect
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A desire to seek truth
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18.What skills do novice critical thinkers utilize?: Rely heavily on
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resources and need clear-cut rules |\ |\ |\ |\
19.What is SBAR?: |\ |\ |\
S: Situation B:
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Background
A: Assessment
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R: Recommendation
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20.Why is SBAR important?: decreases miscommunication,
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increases patient safety, prevents medical errors, saves time,
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promotes interprofessional collaboration
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21.What culture believes that mental illness is caused by
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