Chapters 36-39
The nurse who is certified as a Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN™) represents the unit on the organizational performance improvement team. This is an example of which type of leadership?
Formal or Informal?
What is informal
The U.S. healthcare system is different from that of other countries in which way?
What is The U.S. healthcare system is not entirely government funded.
The staff nurse who uses informatics in promoting quality patient care is most likely to access data in which domain?
What is translational bioinformatics
Consumer health informatics
Certified research informatics
Clinical informatics
A staff nurse reports a medication error due to failure to administer a medication at the scheduled time. What is the charge nurse’s best response?
what is "We’ll conduct a root cause analysis.”
The interprofessional core team includes members from which disciplines?
What is Medicine, nursing, social work, and clergy
The nurse in the outpatient setting would like to conduct a research study that compares patients who take tramadol (Ultracet) to patients who take oxycodone hydrochloride and acetaminophen (Percocet) for managing back pain. Which quantitative research method should yield the best results?
What is a Randomized Controlled Study
What do the economics of health care include?
Medicare and Medicaid dollars
Nurse salaries
Patients’ rights
Equal distribution of health care
What is Equal distribution of health care
A healthcare provider whose native country is India is explaining the treatment plan to a patient. The patient tells the nurse she is having trouble understanding the provider but is embarrassed about asking to repeat the information over and over. The nurse should assess for which results due to this disparity in provider-patient communication? (Select all that apply.)
What is poor adherence and patient dissatisfaction
A nurse manager is reviewing interrelated concepts to the professional nursing role. Which factor should the nurse manager consider when addressing concerns about the quality of patient education?
What is Technology
A nurse is reviewing factors that lead to prevention of non-communicable diseases. Which intervention would be most effective for the nurse to implement for a group of patients?
What is Offer information related to smoking cessation.
One of the first nurse researchers to document evidence-based practice for nursing was Florence Nightingale. What did Nightingale incorporate into her practice that made her practice different from her colleagues?
What is Nightingale based her nursing practice on her findings
Nurses can be health advocates in which of the following ways? (Select all that apply.)
Discussing the upcoming classes with a neighbor
1.Supporting their professional nursing organization when discussing upcoming legislation
2.Rallying for coverage for childhood immunizations
Discussing a patient, they are concerned about with a fellow student in the public cafeteria
3.Arranging for a patient to meet with case management for home health care
A nurse works in a hospital facility where there is equal discussion relative to policies and procedures, but no changes occur as administration continues to maintain existing policies. Based on the three-legged stool analogy, which type of balance is present?
What is equity and inclusion, but no diversity
When describing patient education approaches, the nurse educator would explain that informal teaching is an approach that involves which quality?
What is Often occurs one-to-one
Which characteristic best defines the concept of well-being as it relates to nursing?
What is a spiritual focus
Which group should the nurse expect to receive immunizations based on the wellness-illness continuum for COVID-19?
What is Population with chronic disease
In which of the following answers is the hospital in compliance with the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act and Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1986 (EMTALA)?
What is a patient with chest pain is triaged directly to a room for evaluation and registration information is obtained after the patient is stabilized.
Which nursing action best exemplifies clinical judgment?
What is A nurse after performing an assessment seeks out additional information related to a finding.
Palliative care is used in the management of a patient with symptomatic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Which option does the nurse identify as being accurate?
What is Palliative care is used to help manage the symptoms that often accompany COPD
What is the most appropriate resource to include when planning to provide patient education related to a goal in the psychomotor domain?
What is Manikin practice sessions
A hospital organization is working to improve a feeling of being valued and respected among all staff members. Which action by administration would reinforce the feeling of being valued?
What is Seek staff input when planning a remodeling project of patient rooms
What are the major attributes of health-care quality? (Select all that apply.)
What is Sound decision making
Identifies adverse events
Conforms to standards
Which key element is included in the attributes of professional practice identity?
what is Maintaining professional boundaries
When considering the trajectory of a specific disease, what is the most important concept?
What is Physical functioning
A group of nurses are discussing the impact of the current health pandemic (COVID) as it related to public health emergencies. Which statement is accurate?
What is The magnitude of the pandemic decreased as the virus mutated and immunizations were administered.