A unit based forum for staff input into the decision making process.
What is UBSG? (Unit based shared governance)
100
This schematic was developed by the Practice Council as a conceptual framework for nursing practice at BHLou.
What is the Professional Practice Model?
100
Organization that BHLou submits data to and is benchmarked through.
What is NDNQI (National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators)?
100
Examples of these include Patient Falls, Restraints, Pressure Ulcers, and Hospital acquired infections.
What are Nurse Sensitive Indicators (NSI)
200
The Management style at BHLou.
What is Participative?
200
An opportunity for an individual to show advanced knowledge in their specialty area.
What is certification?
200
"Modified Total Patient Care"
What is the Care Delivery Model at BHLou?
200
Examples of this include solo module, interpreter phones, reference books, access to interpreters.
What is cultural competency?
200
Outcomes Reports, bulletin boards, Stethoscoop, Insights and staff meetings are a few examples.
What are ways that quality improvement is communicated in the hospital?
300
It is "Exceptional Patient/Family Focused Care"
What is the BHLou Nursing Mission?
300
They are Quality, Research, Practice and Education.
What are the 4 Shared Governance Councils?
300
Medical record audits, quality audits and evaluating peers are examples of this.
What is peer review?
300
This is defined by Practice Inquiry, retrieval and critique of best available evidence to enhance patient care and outcomes.
What is Evidence Based Practice (EBP)?
300
Satisfaction with pain management, friendliness and courtesy of nurses, satisfaction with discharge educaiton and response to call.
What are Nurse Sensitive Patient Satisfaction indicators?
400
"Provide patient/family-centered care directed at optimizing the health and dignity of the whole person with a nursing practice that is empowered, innovative, evidence-based and collaborative, building on our tradition of excellence."
What is the BHLou Nursing Vision?
400
A program to recognize/reward nurses who demonstrate significant professional growth and involvement.
What is the Clinical Ladder Program?
400
ARNPs- Laura Mitchell and Sharon Ruhl, wound care nurses, patient satisfaction repersentative, nurse educators, diabetes educators, Dr Cronin from Bellarmine are examples of people that perform this function to all nurses at BHLou
What are resources?
400
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Our BHLou research consultant.
Who is Dr. Sherrill Cronin?
400
These are some examples...Accudose, HARX, needle-less system, colored armbands.
What are patient safety initiatives?
500
At BHLou, ours are...Accountability, Compassion, Professionalism, Advocacy, Integrity, Respect, Stewardship, Excellence and Collaboration
What are our BHLou Nursing Values?
500
Examples include delegating tasks to ancillary staff, structuring the patients therapies for the day, developing the plan of care, working with CC to plan discharge, sending consults to chaplin, working with palliative for end of life care....
What are examples of nursing coordination of care?
500
Developed by Jean Watson, this is part of the foundation upon which our Professional Practice Model is built, and helps to answer the "why" of nursing practice.
What is the Theory of Human Caring?
500
A systematic investigation, including development, testing and/or evaluation, designed to contribute NEW knowledge to nursing practice.
What is Nursing Research?
500
Categories include clinical, workforce, patient and consumer, and organizational...and represent the "report card" of the organization