Which phase of Disaster management?
Prepare go-bags with PPE, flashlights, medications, and documentation tools.
What is preparedness?
The strategy involves both parties giving up something to achieve a common goal.
What is compromising?
This increases if the charge nurse creates a positive social climate.
What is staff retention?
A nurse experiences moral distress when caring for a patient receiving aggressive treatment that conflicts with the nurse’s personal beliefs about quality of life.
What is intrapersonal ?
This type of research utilizes numeric data.
What is quantitative?
Implement infection control and isolation precautions.
What is the response phase?
This strategy involves both parties to find a solution that is acceptable to both parties. win-win
What is collaboration?
The charge nurse does this when the disaster policy is implemented.
What is check staffing on the unit and determine which nurses can be sent to the ED?
A staff nurse and a charge nurse disagree about patient assignments, with the nurse feeling the assignment is unsafe.
What is interpersonal?
This type of research collects data on client feelings and experiences in narrative form.
What is qualitative research?
Support staff well-being and recognize compassion fatigue and burnout.
What is the recovery phase?
This strategy is used when one party acquiesces to another parties needs.
What is accommodation?
This is a task the charge nurse would do when the disaster protocol is being implemented
What is make a list of all patients that can be discharged?
Unit nurses disagree on whether a new policy improves patient care or increases workload.
What is intragroup?
This is done as soon as possible after a sentinel event to promote quality improvement.
What is a root cause analysis?
Educate patients on personal emergency preparedness (med lists, emergency contacts).
What is preparedness?
This strategy involves flattery to create peace but it is a lose-lose strategy (not effective).
What is smoothing?
The charge nurse takes this action when first selecting a nurse of diverting medication
Assess performance and attendance history
The emergency department and inpatient unit argue over patient admissions and bed availability.
What is intergroup?
This is an example of a quality indicator.
What are rates? ( Fall rate, VAP rate, CLABSI rate etc)
Identify vulnerable high-risk populations (older adults, dialysis patients, oxygen-dependent clients).
What is the mitigation phase?
This strategy involves one person who is not considerate or cooperative, dictating the resolution.
What is competing?
The charge nurse would assign a new graduate nurse to this type of patient.
What is stable (or easiest) patient?
Tension develops among staff nurses when some feel others are not pulling their weight during busy shifts.
What is intragroup?
This is the best type of article to guide EBP and QI.
What are peer reviewed articles?