Values
Canadian statement outlining values that help guide nurses in ethical practice.
What is the CNA Code of Ethics?
An event that results in unintended harm to the patient and is related to care and services provided to the patient, not their condition.
What is an adverse event?
Phrase used to describe patient outcomes that are sensitive to nursing interventions.
What are nursing-sensitive outcomes?
Happens when health workers from different professional backgrounds work together with patients to deliver high quality care.
What is collaborative practice?
The regulatory body that governs you as an RN in Alberta.
What is the College of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CRNA)?
The CNA core value where the nurse recognizes and respects the intrinsic worth of each person.
What is honouring dignity?
When healthcare facilities create this environment, their staff are more willing to report adverse events.
What is a culture of safety?
Mortality rates, patient satisfaction, adverse patient outcomes and functional status are all examples of...
Refers to an ongoing process of innovation, prevention of error, and staff development that is used by institutions that adopt the quality management philosophy.
What is quality improvement?
A way for hospitals to track errors or adverse events in AHS.
What is the Reporting and Learning System (RLS)?
What is promoting justice?
Institute established in 2003 by Health Canada to support improvements in patient safety and quality
What is the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI)?
Building relationships, being respectful of the person, providing holistic care, and good communication/collaboration are examples of which of the following.
Patient or client centred care
An independent third-party evaluation of how an institution or organization conforms to set standards.
What is accreditation?
Based on the best available evidence, provide recommendations for nurses, educators, leaders and policy makers to improve patient outcomes
What are best practice guidelines?
What is being accountable?
Involves identifying, analyzing, and addressing potential or actual problems that may cause injury or loss.
What is risk management?
What can patient outcome evaluations be used?
Informs best practices, improves quality of nursing care, informs staffing policies, creates different approaches to care.
A statement that sets out the legal and professional expectations of nursing practice.
What is a professional standard?
Documents that are used in political advocacy and health policy to outline the views of nursing related to specific topics.
What are position statements?
A patient is going for a colonoscopy and is nervous. The nurse explaining the procedure and what to expect is an example of which CNA core values.
What is promoting and respecting informed decision making?
In risk management, this involves a deeper review of an incident and the sequence of events that led up to it.
What is a root-cause analysis?
An organization that collects and analyzes information on the health care system to support decisions to improve the health system
What is the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI)?
Criteria developed by CRNA for nurses to guide curriculum development and implementation in nursing education programs. Used to evaluate you in clinical.
What are entry to practice competencies?
Written statements that define laws, regulations, and actions in society to promote wellness and health outcomes.
What is public health policy?