Evidence-Based Practice
This is the first step to Evidence Based Practice.
What is "Ask the clinical question."
This ethical principle emphasizes the nurse making decisions that actively promote the community’s best interests and well-being.
What is beneficence?
This refers to the beliefs, values, and behaviors that are shared by members of a society and provide a template or “road map” for living.
What is Culture?
This term refers to the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations and the application of this study to the control of health problems.
What is Epidemiology?
This step in the EBP process involves searching and collecting the best available evidence.
What is evidence retrieval?
This ethical principle is applied when the nurse ensures the group’s involvement in decision-making?
What is autonomy?
Public health nurses must be culturally _______ to effectively provide care to diverse populations.
What is competent?
This term describes the number of new cases of a disease in a population over a specific period of time.
What is incidence?
This term refers to the consistency of a measurement tool or test in yielding the same results under the same conditions.
What is reliability?
This principle involves fairness and equality in the distribution of resources and treatment towards the group.
What is justice?
This term refers to the differences in health outcomes and access to healthcare experienced by different racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups.
What are Health Disparities?
This term refers to the proportion of persons with a disease who die from that disease.
What is case fatality rate?
This acronym stands for a common framework used to develop questions?
What is PICO?
Public health nurses must comply with this federal law protecting patient health information.
What is HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
What term describes the awareness and understanding of cultural differences, which enables public health nurses to provide respectful and effective care to diverse populations?
What is Cultural Sensitivity?
This term refers to the number of existing cases of a disease in a population at a particular point in time.
What is prevalence?
This national initiative aims to improve the quality and safety of patient care by promoting evidence-based practices.
What is the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative?
This code provides guidelines for the ethical practice of nursing and is a foundational document for nursing ethics.
What is the ANA Code of Ethics?
This refers to bias that a person’s own culture is best and others are wrong or inferior.
What is ethnocentrism?
This epidemiological term refers to the identification of the initial case or group of cases in an outbreak.
What is the index case?