How are nurses part of the decision-making process at HMSL?
100
Patient and Family Centered Care
What is the Care Delivery System at HMSL?
100
A thoughtful integration of the best available evidence, coupled with clinical expertise, enabling practitioners to assess current and past research, clinical guidelines, and other information resources in order to address healthcare questions with an evaluative and qualitative approach.
What is evidence-based practice (EBP)?
100
A new set of behaviors, routines, and ways of working that are directed at improving health outcomes, administrative efficiency, cost effectiveness, or users' experience ... implemented by planned and coordinated actions.
What is innovation?
200
Clinical Practice Council
What council helped develop the PPM?
200
Interprofessional Care Coordination Rounds
How do nurses participate in Patient and Family centered care with other members of the health care team?
200
At the center of all we do
What is patient-centered care?
200
This model guides clinical decision-making and evidence-based practice implementation from both the practitioner and organizational perspectives.
What is the Iowa Model?
200
The end result or consequence; something that follows from an action or situation.
What is an outcome?
300
Management rounds, AM huddles, open door policy, managers flex working hours between shifts, pagers and office numbers posted on unit
What practice helps nurse leaders to be visible and accountable?
300
Certification and Education - tuition reimbursement
How are HMSL nurses encouraged in their professional development?
300
Wound care nurses, NP's, Physicians, RT, PT, etc.
What clinical experts can nurses use as resources for patient care?
300
Evidence-based Practice Council
What council exits to assist nurses with evidence-based projects to improve nursing quality outcomes.
300
Data which can be measured. Deals with numbers: length, height, area, volume, weight, speed, time, temperature, humidity, sound levels, cost, members, ages, etc.
What are quantitative data?
Quantitative → Quantity
400
House-wide Town Hall meetings, email blasts, monthly CNO and VP "Intentional Rounds"
What method does our CNO use to be visible to staff?
400
Unit Action Plans
How does each unit work on improving Patient Satisfaction Scores at HMSL?
400
This committee provides both informal and formal consultation services at the request of medical staff, hospital staff, patients, family members and/or surrogate decision makers which arise in the course of patient care provision.
What is the Bioethics Committee? (AP.97)
400
A systematic search for knowledge about issues of importance to the nursing profession.
What is nursing research?
400
Data can be observed but not measured. Deals with descriptions: verbalizations, colors, textures, smells, tastes, appearance, beauty, etc.
What are qualitative data?
Qualitative → Quality
500
Staffing grid/flexible scheduling
How do nurse managers ensure adequate staffing on your unit?
500
Minimum degree requirement (recommended by the IOM) for clinical nurses based on patient outcomes research.
What is a BSN?
[80% BSN by 2020 is target set by IOM and adopted by Magnet]
500
The overarching conceptual framework for nurses, nursing care, and interdisciplinary patient care. HINT: It includes nursing theory/vision/philosophy, shared governance, ANA scope&standards/ethics, TX nursing practice act, professional advancement system, organizational values -- to illustrate how nurses practice, collaborate, communicate, and develop professionally to provide the highest quality care for those served.
What is the HMSL Professional Practice Model?
500
Temporal Thermometer Research Study
What is the completed Nursing Research Council at HMSL?
500
Measures and indicators that reflect the impact of nursing actions on clinical patient outcomes.
What are nursing-sensitive quality indicators [NSQI]?