Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing

1. "Describe the scope of medical surgical nursing (Ignatavicius, 1)" - 1. "The scope of medical-surgical nursing, sometimes called adult health nursing, is to promite healt and prevent illness or injury in patients from 18 to older than 100 years of age (Ignatavicius, 1)." "2. Explain the recent increased focus on patient safety and quality of care (Ignatavicius,1)." - "2. Rapid advances in technology, massive increases in knowledge, and dramatic changes in the health care delivery system require that medical-surgical nurses use expert clinical judgment to ensure patient safety as the priiority in practice. Health care errors by physicians, nurses, and other health care professionsals have been widely publicized for the past 15 years. Many of these errors have resulted in patient deaths and injuries an increased health care costs. As a result of these findings, a number of national and international organizations have implememted new programs and standards to combat this growing problem (Ignatavius, 2)." "3. Identify the purpose of the Rapid Response Team (RRT) (Ignatavicius, 1)." - "3. Outcome date demonstrate that the RRT approach to emergency care reduces medical complications and decreases the number of cardiac and respiraory arrests (Ignatavicius, 3)." "4. Explain when to call the RRT Ignatavicius, 1)." - "4. Although the team does not replace the Code Team who responds to patient arrests, it act rapidly when needed for those who are beginning to clinically decline (Ignatavicius, 3)." "5. Differentiate the six core competencies that healthcare professionals need to provide safe, quality health care (Ignatavicius, 1)." - "5. The six core competencies for health care professionals based on research by the Institues of Medicine (IOM) and Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) are patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, informatics, and safety (Ignatavicius, 7)." Patient-centered care is "care that recognizes the patient or designeee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinate care based on respect for the patient's preferences, values and need (Ignatavicius, 1758)." Communication, teamwork, and collaboration "planning, emplementingl, and evaluating patient care together as a health care team is important to provide patient-centered care (Ignatavicius, 4)." Evidence-based practices is " care that nurses provide thatis based on research and identified standards and considers the patient's preferences and values and the nurse's clinical expertise (Ignatavacius, 1741)." Quality improvement is " a competency that lnurses can achieve by using data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and using imporovement methods to designs and test changes to continuously improve the qualit and safety of health care systems (Ignatavicius, 1762)." Informatices is "a specialized computer science that involves using information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making, (Ignativicius, 1748)." Safety involves "minimizing risk of harm to patients (Ignativicius, 6)."