Nursing Core Competencies
The nurse of the future will interact effectively with patients, families, and colleagues.
What is communication?
Unexpected occurrences involving death or serious physical or psychological injury or the risk thereof.
What is a Sentinel event?
The fair distribution of benefits and resources.
What is justice?
The innate right of a person to be valued and respected.
What is dignity?
The nurse manipulates the environment to enhance patient recovery.
What is Nightingale's Environmental Theory?
The nurse of the future will minimize the risk of harm to patients and providers.
What is safety?
The ethical approach to promote the greater good for the greatest number possible in situations.
What is utilitarianism?
Taking action to benefit others.
What is beneficence?
Providing comfort rather than curative measures for terminally ill patients.
What is palliative care?
The theory of self-care that describes why and how people care for themselves.
What is Dorothea Orem's self-care theory?
The nurse of the future will influence the behavior of groups and individuals within their environment.
What is professionalism?
The failure to act as a reasonably prudent person would have acted in a specific situation.
What is negligence?
Refraining from action that might harm others.
What is nonmaleficence?
The transfer of responsibility for a patient from one clinician to another.
What is a patient handoff?
This theory focuses on comparative cultural care including values, beliefs, and practices.
What is Madeleine Leininger's Cultural Diversity Theory?
The nurse of the future will identify, evaluate, and use the best current evidence coupled with clinical expertise.
What is evidence-based practice?
Bullying can include criticism, humiliation, and teasing in front of others.
What is incivility?
The ability to self rule and generate personal decisions independently.
What is autonomy?
A written expression of a person's wishes about their medical care.
What is an advance directive?
This theory involves the nurse-patient relationship as being the center of nursing.
What is Hildegard Peplau's theory?
The nurse of the future will provide holistic care to a patient recognizing their preferences, values, and needs.
What is patient-centered care?
A state of disengagement, and withdrawal, causing physical, emotional and mental exhaustion.
What is burnout?
The decision to withhold or withdraw treatment.
What is nonmaleficence?
An individual's belief that they are capable of performing a behavior.
What is self-efficacy?
This theory maintains that the goal of nursing is to help the patient obtain a higher level of harmony within the mind-body-spirit.
What is Jean Watson's Philosophy and Science of Caring theory?