NUR 3825 Exam 2 Questions and Answers Already Passed
The Institute of Medicine Quality Chasm Series (IOM) - Answers - nurses should practice to the
full extent of their education and training
- nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved system that
promotes seamless academic progression
- nurses should be full partners, with physicians and other health professionals, in redesigning
health care in the United States
- effective workforce planning and policy making require better data collection and an improved
information infrastructure
Culture - Answers a guide for determining the values, beliefs, and practices for individuals or
groups of people
Cultural acculturation - Answers process of cultural and physiological change that takes place
as a result of contact between cultural groups and their individual members
Cultural accommodation - Answers when the majority culture lives in harmony with a minority
culture, as each accepts and allows the other to retain its cultural identity
Cultural competence - Answers - developmental process
- builds increases in knowledge and skill development in the areas of cultural awareness,
knowledge, understanding, sensitivity, interaction, and skills
Acquiring cultural competence - Answers 1. Examine personal values, beliefs, biases, and
prejudices
2. Build cultural awareness
3. Learn culturally specific communication strategies
4. Interact with people from different cultures
5. Identify and acknowledge mistakes
6. Remediate cultural mistakes
Cultural blindness - Answers when we actually think that we have addressed cultural differences
and that we understand the differences
Research variables - Answers - independent: variable purposefully manipulated by the
researcher to have a direct effect on another variable
- dependent: variable that is observed, measured, and presumed to be influenced by or related in
, some special way to the independent variable
National Patient Safety Goals - Answers - improve accuracy of client identification.
- improve effectiveness of communication
among caregivers.
- improve safety of using medications.
- reduce risk of health-care-associated infections.
- identify client safety risks inherent in its
patient population.
Purpose of National Patient Safety Goals - Answers prevent errors that compromise client
safety in hospitals, home care agencies, outpatient facilities, and laboratories
Physiologic variances in culture - Answers - federal government has identified medical research
across gender and ethnic groups as a research priority: pharmacogenetics and genetic research
- professional nurses should be aware of differing responses to medications to anticipate
potential adverse effects.
Purpose of nursing research - Answers - Articulate the values of research and its application
relative to health care setting and practice.
- Identify questions in the health care setting and practice that can be answered by nursing
research.
- Use current evidence-based knowledge to guide practice.
- Incorporate evidence when initiating nursing practice changes
- Participate in the formation of evidence-based practice through research.
- Promote ethical research in practice in the healthcare setting.
- Appraise nursing research studies for optimal application in practice and the health care
setting.
- Share peer-reviewed research with colleagues to integrate knowledge into nursing practice.
Informatics - Answers deals with the collection, classification, storage, retrieval, and
dissemination of recorded knowledge treated both as a true and applied science
Health care informatics - Answers integrates data collection, storage, and treatment of a
person's health data to facilitate continuity of care
The Institute of Medicine Quality Chasm Series (IOM) - Answers - nurses should practice to the
full extent of their education and training
- nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved system that
promotes seamless academic progression
- nurses should be full partners, with physicians and other health professionals, in redesigning
health care in the United States
- effective workforce planning and policy making require better data collection and an improved
information infrastructure
Culture - Answers a guide for determining the values, beliefs, and practices for individuals or
groups of people
Cultural acculturation - Answers process of cultural and physiological change that takes place
as a result of contact between cultural groups and their individual members
Cultural accommodation - Answers when the majority culture lives in harmony with a minority
culture, as each accepts and allows the other to retain its cultural identity
Cultural competence - Answers - developmental process
- builds increases in knowledge and skill development in the areas of cultural awareness,
knowledge, understanding, sensitivity, interaction, and skills
Acquiring cultural competence - Answers 1. Examine personal values, beliefs, biases, and
prejudices
2. Build cultural awareness
3. Learn culturally specific communication strategies
4. Interact with people from different cultures
5. Identify and acknowledge mistakes
6. Remediate cultural mistakes
Cultural blindness - Answers when we actually think that we have addressed cultural differences
and that we understand the differences
Research variables - Answers - independent: variable purposefully manipulated by the
researcher to have a direct effect on another variable
- dependent: variable that is observed, measured, and presumed to be influenced by or related in
, some special way to the independent variable
National Patient Safety Goals - Answers - improve accuracy of client identification.
- improve effectiveness of communication
among caregivers.
- improve safety of using medications.
- reduce risk of health-care-associated infections.
- identify client safety risks inherent in its
patient population.
Purpose of National Patient Safety Goals - Answers prevent errors that compromise client
safety in hospitals, home care agencies, outpatient facilities, and laboratories
Physiologic variances in culture - Answers - federal government has identified medical research
across gender and ethnic groups as a research priority: pharmacogenetics and genetic research
- professional nurses should be aware of differing responses to medications to anticipate
potential adverse effects.
Purpose of nursing research - Answers - Articulate the values of research and its application
relative to health care setting and practice.
- Identify questions in the health care setting and practice that can be answered by nursing
research.
- Use current evidence-based knowledge to guide practice.
- Incorporate evidence when initiating nursing practice changes
- Participate in the formation of evidence-based practice through research.
- Promote ethical research in practice in the healthcare setting.
- Appraise nursing research studies for optimal application in practice and the health care
setting.
- Share peer-reviewed research with colleagues to integrate knowledge into nursing practice.
Informatics - Answers deals with the collection, classification, storage, retrieval, and
dissemination of recorded knowledge treated both as a true and applied science
Health care informatics - Answers integrates data collection, storage, and treatment of a
person's health data to facilitate continuity of care
