Leading & Managing
Occurs between two individuals with differing values or goals.
What is interpersonal conflict?
A group of healthcare professionals from various discipline.
What is the interprofessional team?
Created to inspire nurses to improve their health and be role models for others.
What is Healthy Nurse Healthy Nation?
Circumstances that can result in health inequitities.
What are the social determinants of care?
An unexpected death, major physical or psychological injury, or situation where there was a direct risk of either of these.
What is a sentinel event?
Factors are present that have a increased chance that conflict will occur.
What is latent conflict?
Coordinates the interprofessional team?
What is the nurse's role?
This allows a nurse to provide a standard of care that is reasonable and prudent in an emergency situation.
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
These nurses practice a level of humility demonstrated by incorporating self-evaluation throughout one's life of personal bias, addressing inequities in healthcare, and developing partnerships that work with communities in a mutually beneficial way to support defined populations.
Who are nurses practicing culturally congruent care?
The nurse should look here to find out information on hazardous materials in the workplace.
What is the Safety Data Sheet (SDS)?
The product of a process involving critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgement.
What is clinical decision making?
In this stage of Lewin's change theory, the change is integrated, and the system is reestablished.
What is refreezing?
Each state has one to guide nursing practice.
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
Supporting clinical interventions and teaching strategies with evidence is an example of this.
What is using evidence-based practice?
Airborne, contact, droplet, standard.
What are the four levels of precautions?
Systemic before local (life before limb)
Acute before chronic
Actual problems before potential problems
Listen carefully and don't assume
Recognize and responds to trends vs. transient findings
Recognize indications of medical emergencies vs. expected findings
Apply clinical knowledge to procedural standards to determine the priority of action
What are the Prioritization Principles in client care?
Coordinating and facilitating care, improving utilization of resources, enhancing quality of care, limiting unnecessary costs and advocating for the client and family.
What is nursings role in case management?
The failure of a person with professional training to act in a reasonable and prudent manner.
What is malpractice, or professional negligence?
A format commonly used to develop a research project.
What is PICOT?
This should be completed when something unexpected occurs, but should not be included in the client's chart.
What is an incident report?
According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, these needs are at the base of the triangle and must be met before other needs are met.
What are physiological needs?
This ensures important information is included when report is given to the receiving nurse when a client is transferred from one level of care to another.
What are good communication skills?
Following standards of care, giving competent care, communicating with other health team members, developing a caring rapport with clients, accurate documentation are ways to avoid this.
How can nurses avoid being liable for negligence?
Used to protect the rights of participants in a research study.
What is the institutional review board?
Factors or qualities in an object's design and/or use that contribute to comfort, safety, efficiency, and ease of use. Proper body mechanics can be included in this.
What are ergonomic principles?
Monitoring findings, reinforcing client teaching from a standard care plan, performing tracheostomy care, suctioning, administering enteral feedings are examples.
What are tasks the RN can delegate to the LPN?
In this stage the team focuses on accomplishment of tasks.
What is the performing stage?
The nurse has a duty to report the coworker to management immediately, following facility policies.
What should the nurse do if they suspect a coworker of using alcohol or other substances while working?
A core concept of nursing.
What is caring?
Each health care facility must have one, it should interface with local, state, and federal resources; and The Joint Commission mandates it be tested at least twice a year.
What is an Emergency Operating Plan?
ADLs, bathing, grooming, dressing, toileting, ambulating, I & O, vital signs, and positioning are examples.
What are tasks the RN can delegate to the AP?
To witness the client's signature on the form and to ensure the client understands the information provided by the provider. If the client does not understand the information provided, the provider should be contacted.
What is the role of the nurse in informed consent?
Federal law requires health care facilities to provide access to qualified specialists who make request to clients and/or family members for this.
What is organ donation?
Client outcomes are improved, cost of care is lower, delivery of high-quality care.
What are positive consequences of using evidence-based practice?
Rescue
Activate
Confine
Extinguish
What is the fire response sequence?