Health Policy
The government agency to which certain infections must be reported to
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
What are the things to do when you are talking with someone who is hard of hearing?
Anthrax, Flu, and TB are among the diseases that need to be reported to this agency.
What is the CDC?
The ANA defines this as the nursing process or act of recommending a course of action and supporting the client.
What is advocacy?
Defined as planning changes in processes or systems that will improve client outcomes, efficacy, and clinical performance of related health care practices is called this.
What is Quality Improvement (QI)?
This agency's mission is to provide resources that promote the economic and social well-being of children through funding, strategic partnerships, and technical resources.
What is the Administration for Children and Families (ACF)?
Be sure to use this when speaking with a client who does not speak English.
What is the facility interpreter?
This ethical principle states that nurses care for people of varying socioeconomic status.
What is Justice?
This guides decisions toward accountability, improves client outcomes, and promotes professional development.
What is Shared Governance?
Identify a problem: Ask a question.
Search credible sources of evidence: Look for factual information.
Evaluate the findings: Review the information.
Implement recommendations: Change interventions.
Review their effectiveness: Do the new interventions improve results?
Disseminate the results: Share the findings with others.
What are the six steps of EBP?
This manual outlines the standard of care that meets regulatory and accreditation requirements and promotes safety for every nursing intervention.
What is the Policy and Procedure manual?
Best way to communicate with staff members
What is face to face?
This Act was enacted to direct emergency medical personnel to provide equal care to clients entering the emergency department (ED), regardless of their insurance or financial status.
What is the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor act (EMTALA)?
Regulatory board, Nurse Practice Act, Organizations P&P, and individual self-regulation are the four steps to this.
What is the Hierarchy of Regulation Practice?
The first nationally recognized standard systematic evaluation of clients’ hospital experience is the
What is Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS)?
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
This very linear model comprised six concepts: sender, encoder, channel, decoder, receiver, and noise.
What is the Shannon-Weaver model?
The simple act of sitting with the client, providing comfort, and allowing them to talk about their feelings is a way that you can practice this.
What is Beneficence?
Encouraging nurses to use Evidence-Based Practice falls under this type of leadership.
What is Transformational leadership?
Prevent mistakes in surgery, improve staff communication, use medicines safely, and infection prevention are some of these.
What are the goals of National Patient Safety Goals?
A nurse wanting to practice across state lines should contact this agency.
What is the Board of Nursing (BON)?
All of these require the nurse to repeat the message to the client to ensure there was no misunderstanding between the participants.
What is Restating, paraphrasing, and summarizing?
This ethical principle refers to the nurse’s obligation to provide truthful and accurate information to the client.
What is veracity?
This is a legal obligation with a moral and ethical commitment to do the right thing, every time, and in every situation. For example implementing the 6 rights of med administration.
What is accountability?
This is a problem-solving approach to client care that combines the most accurate scientific evidence with clinical expertise and client values.
What is Evidence-based practice (EBP)?
When wasting a controlled substance the nurse should do the following.
What is find another nurse to witness the destruction?
These statements encourage the client, such as “You did very well with your food diary this week”.
What are Affirmations?
This happens when a person can no longer speak for themselves.
What is envoking a health care proxy?
Describing yourself as a nurse is known as this.
What is Professional Identity?
Medication errors, new pressure injuries, and falls with or without injury all require this to be completed.
What is an incident report?
The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act prohibits another person from revoking the consent for this action.
What is organ donation after death?
Emailing medical information is prohibited because of this policy
What is HIPPA?
A nurse rushing to help someone in need, sometimes ignoring risk to themselves and putting the needs of the client first is an example of this ethical principle.
What is altruism?
This type of leadership gives gifts for a job well done.
What is Transactional leadership?
These types of events include but are not limited to, discharging an infant to the wrong family, wrong-site surgeries, and infusion of incompatible blood products.
What are sentinel events?
This agency sets and enforces safe and healthful working conditions for nurses and workers in the private sector and for some state employees.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
These communicators appear passive only on the surface. Often, the individual is acting out anger in a subtle, indirect, or secretive way.
What is Passive-aggressive?
This Act protects nurses from liabilty if they stop to help someone experiencing a medical event.
What is the Good Samaritan Act?
Roles of the nurse include these.
What is a caregiver, advocate, and change agent?
This is a reactive and problem-driven approach to improving client outcomes and health care delivery.
What is Quality Assurance?
Insurance for children up to age 19 whose families may earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but cannot afford private insurance is provided by
What is the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)?
The mnemonic OARS: open-ended questions, affirmations (which are positive comments that help build the receiver’s confidence), reflective listening, and summarizing, help to remember this style of communication.
What is Motivational Interviewing?
This ethical principle refers to the nurse’s obligation to demonstrate loyalty, to keep promises, and to uphold commitments.
What is Fedelity?
These leaders are hands-off leaders that oversee and encourage their team to work independently, providing little direct control over decision-making.
What is Laissez-faire?
Plan-do-study-act are the steps in this
What is a QI Model?
This government agency has a responsibility to protect consumers’ health by ensuring the safety and quality of many products including food, cosmetics, and medications.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
This phase of relationship building is the active phase of the relationship where the nurse educates the client to change the situation or behavior.
What is exploitation?
Unfortunately nurses working long hours have an increased risk of making poor decisions, making med errors, and increased client mortality all due to this
What is Nurse Fatigue?
This leadership style makes decisions controlled by policies, it enforces the rules, and is inflexible to create suggestions.
What is Bureaucratic?
Are standardized processes and best practices created to improve client care.
What are Quality Core Measures?