Direct Care Education
What degree is required for an APRN to practice direct care?
What is Master of Science in Nursing Degree?
The number of core competencies.
Another name for the "direct care" competency.
What is Direct Clinical Practice?
How APRNs practice direct care.
What is by having an actual interaction with the patient themselves?
How nursing theories help APRNs practice direct care.
What is nursing theories give APRNs a variety of approaches to choose from, helping them with decision-making, research guidance, and evidence-based direct care practice?
What are the three different categories of direct care education?
What is: graduate degree core classes, specialty track classroom courses, and specialty track clinicals?
Direct care falls where on the list of core competencies?
What is direct care is the first core competency?
First step in executing direct care.
What is the APRN will have direct and personal interaction with patients, families, and populations?
True or False: Direct care is holistic.
What is true?
Give some examples of direct care nursing theories.
What is Orem's Theories (including Self-Care Theory & Self-Deficit Theory), Theory of Nursing Systems, Lydia Hall's Care, Cure, and Core Theory, and Locsin's Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing Theory?
Name a few examples of graduate degree core classes.
What is: advanced pharmacology, advanced physiology and pathophysiology, advanced health/physical assessment?
Why is direct care considered a central competency?
What is direct care is the foundational competency, needed for an APRN to practice the other core competencies?
True or False: direct care refers only to diagnosing and treating the disease process.
What is false?
When APRNs practice direct care, they take the entire individual into consideration, and do not soley treat the illness but the patient as a whole.
How does direct care influence the APRN's relationships with his/her patients?
What is by fostering the development of therapeutic relationships between APRNs and their patients?
Difference between Self-Care and Self-Deficit Theories.
What is Orem's first Theory of Self-Care involves practicing activities that a patient performs to care for themselves and maintain their own life, daily functioning, development, and correction of health conditions whereas Orem's second Theory of Self-Care (Self-Deficit Theory) refers to when the APRN must guide and care for the patient because the patient's needs exceed their self-care abilities.
How many semesters does it take to complete the specialty track portion of an APRN's education in direct care?
What is at least three semesters?
What needs to happen before an APRN can practice direct care independently?
What is they must develop clinical proficiency?
Why direct care is healthy for patients.
What is direct care promotes the improvement of health and quality of life of the patient.
How does direct care improve the APRN as a provider?
What is by including the aspect of self reflection and self-assessment into the APRN's practice, so they know how they can improve for the next patient they care for?
Describe Lydia Hall's Care, Cure, and Core Theory.
What is all three "C's" function together and can be visualized as three circles: care includes bodily well-being (toileting and bathing) and primary nurse function, core includes patient receiving care (social and emotional needs), and cure includes the patient receiving treatment/medication.
Identify examples of APRN specialties that undergo education in direct care.
What is: Family Nurse Practitioner, Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Nurse Midwife?
How an APRN becomes clinically proficient to practice direct care.
What is the APRN must undergo extensive, supervised clinical experiences in varying healthcare settings that allow them to practice and strengthen their knowledge, skills, and understanding of how to practice direct care?
What is the patient, family, and/or population group is treated, counselled, educated, taught how to better care for themselves, and/or administered medication.
What is diverse health and illness management approaches, that include both medical and wholistic aspects, while ensuring the patient is well educated about their disease process?
What is Locsin's Theory?
What is Locsin's 2005 Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing Theory refers to the idea that patients are considered whole regardless of the technologies used on them, that direct care of the nurse is not to "fix" the patient but care for them fully, and that technology is an extension of what provides a greater sense of knowing the patient (can be in the form of TV and computer screens)?