TL
Transformational Leadership
SE
Structural Empowerment
EP
Exemplary Professional Practice
NK
New Knowledge, Innovation & Improvements
EO
Empirical Outcomes
100
Chief Nursing Officer
Who is Janet Leatherwood
100
Shared Governance Tuesday
What is the first Tuesday of the month? *also acceptable* When do KD shared decision making councils meet?
100
Valley, I CARE: vision, integrity, care, accountability, respect, excellence
What are Kaweah Delta's organizational values?
100
A thoughtful integration of the best available evidence, coupled with clinical expertise, enabling practitioners to assess current and past research, clinical guidelines, and other information resources in order to address healthcare questions with an evaluative and qualitative approach.
What is evidence-based practice (EBP)?
100
A new set of behaviors, routines, and ways of working that are directed at improving health outcomes, administrative efficiency, cost effectiveness, or users' experience ... implemented by planned and coordinated actions.
What is innovation?
200
Second annual event scheduled Monday, May 6 to showcase advanced degree and certification opportunities for nurses.
What is the Education Fair?
200
Care Delivery System at Kaweah Delta -- HINT: at the center of all we do
What is patient-centered care?
200
This model guides clinical decision-making and evidence-based practice implementation from both the practitioner and organizational perspectives.
What is the Iowa Model?
200
The end result or consequence; something that follows from an action or situation.
What is an outcome?
300
ICARE
What are HMSL Values
300
Database in Employee Suite that must be reviewed and updated at least annually by all RNs employed at KD.
What is the RN Magnet Profile?
300
The body of California law that mandates the Board of Registered Nursing to set out the scope of practice and responsibilities for RNs.
What is the California Nursing Practice Act (NPA)?
300
Before piloting any EBP projects or research, nurses are required to present their proposal to this council.
What is NROC [Nursing Research & Outcomes Council]?
300
Data which can be measured. Deals with numbers: length, height, area, volume, weight, speed, time, temperature, humidity, sound levels, cost, members, ages, etc.
What are quantitative data? Quantitative → Quantity
400
"A voluntary process by which a non-govermental body grants time-limited recognition and use of a credential to individuals who demonstrate that they have met predetermined and standardized criteria for required knowledge, skills, or competencies -- independent of a specific class, course, or other education/training program."
What is professional certification?
400
This committee provides both informal and formal consultation services at the request of medical staff, hospital staff, patients, family members and/or surrogate decision makers which arise in the course of patient care provision.
What is the Bioethics Committee? (AP.97)
400
A systematic search for knowledge about issues of importance to the nursing profession.
What is nursing research?
400
Data can be observed but not measured. Deals with descriptions: verbalizations, colors, textures, smells, tastes, appearance, beauty, etc.
What are qualitative data? Qualitative → Quality
500
Minimum degree requirement (recommended by the IOM) for clinical nurses based on patient outcomes research.
What is a BSN? [80% BSN by 2020 is target set by IOM and adopted by Magnet]
500
The overarching conceptual framework for nurses, nursing care, and interdisciplinary patient care. HINT: It includes nursing theory/vision/philosophy, shared governance, ANA scope&standards/ethics, CA nursing practice act, professional advancement system, organizational values -- to illustrate how nurses practice, collaborate, communicate, and develop professionally to provide the highest quality care for those served.
What is KD Professional Practice Model?
500
A brief summary of a research article, thesis, review, conference presentation or any in-depth analysis of a particular subject or discipline, and is often used to help the reader/audience quickly ascertain the paper's purpose.
What is an abstract?
500
Measures and indicators that reflect the impact of nursing actions on clinical patient outcomes.
What are nursing-sensitive quality indicators [NSQI]?
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