Safety
Culture
Competency
Informatics
Evidence Based Practice
Nursing Theory
100

This reporting tool documents any event that may or may NOT have caused injury to a patient. Reports must include the date, time, area of event, factual objective information and documentation of any equipment involved including witnesses.  

What is an incident report. 

100

This form of communication involves no speech or words but IS VERY important in nearly EVERY culture and has varied meanings in different cultures. 

What is nonverbal communication

100

The unit’s super-user or go-to knowledgeable IT nurse that is skilled with the computerized charting system, barcoded medication system, and Omnicell systems who learned on the job. 

What is the informatics nurse 

100

The part of a research article we can find the details of how the study was conducted, designed and tools used. 

What is the article’s Method Section 

100

Three main reasons for the use of Nursing Theory 

What is a 

Body of knowledge

Critical thinking

Autonomy for nurses

200
Reporting agency for Sentinel events

What is the Joint Commission 

200

Nurses must assess client and make decisions regarding care based on the social group, beliefs, and lifeways of the group that the patient’s identifies with rather than ethnicities. 

What is the patient’s culture

200

The type of graduate degree level nurse skilled at bringing NURSING knowledge into the IT ream. They are skilled in development and utilization of healthcare technology. 

What is the Informatics Nurse Specialists 
200

This type of qualitative research methodology approach that is used to understand and conduct theory development. For example the study of nursing student’s perceptions of readiness entering the nursing workforce. 

What is nursing research using the Grounded Theory methodology. 

200

The principals of this theory is still useful and applicable to infection control today. 

What is The Environmental Theory 

300

The report that must be completed for missing items that affect patient care such as an insulin pump, dentures,personal cane or prosthetic leg? 

What is an incident report

300

An assessment the nurse does to examine the role of cultural influences in your own lives: objectively examining your own beliefs, values, practices; identifying and reflecting on personal biases. 

What is self-awareness

300

They are authorized by the organization to use the nurses’ personal computerized access codes. 

No one but the nurse

300

A researcher want to use this QUANTITATiVE research methodology to study the relationship between technology use and mental health. 

What is correlational research methodology 

300

This theory is contents that caring regenerates life energies and potentials our capabilities.

What is the Theory of Human Caring

Jean Watson 

400
An example of this is a patient suicide after receiving care and treatment within 72 hours of discharge from the ER. 

What is an Sentinel Event

400

The nurse does this by ensuring an environment of culturally competent care and respect through body language and other cues, such as tone of speech.

What establishing effective communication 

400

This innovative platform that provides communication access in a remote location by means of transmitted audio and video signal. 

What is Telemedicine / Videoconferencing access. 

400

The researcher uses this non-randomized quantitative research methodology to implement a new unit safety protocol to examine the impact on falls on the unit. 

What is a Quasi-Experimental research methodology

400

Theory focuses on comparative cultural care based on beliefs, practices and values.  Nursing care is specific, individualized and culturally appropriate.

What is Transcultural Nursing Theory

500

Where incident reports are sent. They conduct a full root-cause analysis, evaluate and recommend preventative measures. 

What is Risk Management

500

Patient’s may perceive these nonverbal actions as aggressive, offensive, impolite or disrespectful and should be avoided unless given permission by the client. 

Direct eye contact

Encroaching on a patient’s close personal space

Touching the client 

500

The study or analysis of genetic makeup of an individual affects their response to drugs. Integrates the role of genomics and pharmacology. 

What is Pharmacogenomics 

500

It is important that researchers carefully select the ____ of a study for the outcomes to be valid, useful and applicable to a larger population? 

What is the sample size of a research study

500

The central theme of this theory focuses on the response of the patient system to environmental stressors. The patient is in dynamic, constant energy exchange with the environment. A comprehensive holistic and SYSTEMS-BASED Model. 

What is the Systems Theory


Betty Newman

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