Nursing Today
The nurse is in this role to demonstrate to the patient and family how to perform a dressing change.
What is nurse educator?
This is a special designation for hospitals that achieve excellence in nursing practice.
What is Magnet status?
This factor results in vulnerable populations being more likely to develop health problems
What is limited access to health care services?
The components of this provide a foundation for knowledge for nurses to direct and deliver nursing care.
What is theory?
This guides nurses in addressing clinical problems by looking for the very best scientific and clinical evidence available for treating or managing the problems and implementing changes in practice.
What is evidence-based practice?
This involves a mutual give and take and is specific and relational for each nurse-patient encounter.
What is caring?
After displaying several behaviors, a patient may have this problem after he/she has difficulty completing a registration form at the medical office .
What is health literacy?
The nurse is in this role to explain risks and benefits of a new surgical procedure for a patient.
What is the patient advocate?
This begins at admission to a health care agency and helps determine the best place for a patient to go after discharge from the hospital.
What is discharge planning?
This type of nursing focus is on health promotion, disease prevention, and improving quality of life of a population.
What is community-oriented nursing?
This theorist nurse practice includes each patient's room is clean; well ventilated; free from clutter, excessive noise, and extreme temperatures.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
Use clinical judgement and this and also consider the patient's values and preferences to ensure that you provide competent, safe, patient-centered care.
What is evidence-based practice?
This is a person-to-person interaction, conveying closeness and a sense of caring that involves "being there" and "being with" patients and caregivers.
What is presence?
This self-examines the dynamics of personal biases, stereotypes, values, and beliefs related to others different from one's own heritage.
What is cultural awareness?
This nurse is an expert clinician in a specialized area of practice such as adult diabetic care.
What is clinical nurse specialist?
This is promoted through providing patient and family-centered care and applying good interpersonal skills.
What is patient satisfaction?
This type of nursing focus is to provide direct illness care to individuals and families within the community setting.
What is community-based nursing?
This theorist based the belief that people who participate in self-care activities are more likely to improve their health outcomes.
Who is Dorothea Orem?
This process improvement model is used to identify errors that lead to sentinel events.
What is root cause analysis?
This is a therapeutic skill that includes interpreting, understanding, and respecting what a patient or family caregiver is saying and expressing that understanding and respect.
What is listening?
This involves directly interacting with patients of a diverse population other than one's own.
What is cultural encounter?
This provides the minimal standard of knowledge for an RN in practice.
What is the examination for RN licensure?
"The patient will be able to walk 200 feet without being short of breath" to a patient following an extended hospitalization is the appropriate outcome for this type of care.
What is restorative care?
This social determinant of health was based when a community clinic initiated a lead screening program when many older homes underwent restorations.
What is physical environment?
This theory is very abstract; attempts to describe nursing in a global context.
What is grand theory?
This is the first step of evidence-based practice process.
What is search for the most relevant and best evidence?
Maintaining this in all aspects of nursing care contributes to the health and well-being of patients and improves patient and nurse satisfaction.
What is compassion?
Culture and this shape the person's world-view about health, illness, and health care.
What is life experiences?
This provide the guidelines for implementing and evaluating nursing care.
What are nursing standards?
When attending a review course in prepration for a certification examination, this activity is performed by the nurse.
What is maintaining competency in nursing practice?
This nursing role is a result of designing a smoking-cessation program at a youth community center after determining that a large number of adolscents smoke.
What is a counselor?
Nursing needs a strong scientific knowledge base from nursing, biomedical, sociological, and what other discipline?
What are behavioral sciences?
This section of a research article describes who/what was studied and how the data was collected to answer the research questions and hypothesis.
What are the methods?
This places the nurse as the patient's advocate, influences the nurse's clinical judgement, and helps guide clinical decision-making regarding ethical dilemmas.
What is ethic of care?
Poor health, diseases risk factors, poor health outcomes and this are preventable health care disparities often interrelated and influenced by the conditions and social context in which people live.
What is limited access to health care?