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This type of drain requires a bulb to be compressed to allow drainage from the surgical incision.
What is a Jackson-Pratt (JP) drain?
This step of ISBAR includes who is calling, who the call is about, and their location.
What is the introduction?
A nurse is exemplifying this QSEN quality when reviewing a patients medication list with all pharmacies the patient uses.
What is Safety?
This is when discharge planning should begin.
What is admission?
This concept of HIPAA relates to the rights over the use and disclosure of his or her own personal health information.
What is privacy?
This step of the nursing process looks at the outcomes of nursing interventions to gauge if goals were met or not.
What is evaluation?
This step in the ISBAR structured communication tool addresses significant information on previous illness, treatment/interventions to date, and admission date/diagnosis.
What is the background?
This QSEN competency promotes inclusion of different parts of the healthcare team working together in the care of a patient.
What is teamwork and collaboration?
This is a technique that opens the conversation in a nonthreatening way and directs the focus to the issue.
What are therapeutic communication techniques?
These are rights the RN should use when assigning patient care.
What are the 5 rights of delegation?
This practice includes multiple healthcare personal working together to treat the whole patient and improve outcomes.
What is the collaborative practice model?
This is where additional information given that elaborates on the reason for communication. Provides additional details.
What is the assessment?
This competency recognizes the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
What is patient centered care?
Nurses must assess for this before beginning a teaching plan to ensure the client will find the importance of the education.
What is learning readiness?
When a healthcare provider up holds this ethical duty, they are preventing harm to the client.
What is nonmaleficence?
Described as the essence of nursing, this is when nurses are alert to potential complications and intervene to minimize risk and negative outcomes before problems arise.
What is nursing vigilance?
This step in the ISBAR structured communication tool provides the reason for communication.
What is the situation?
This competency integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
What is evidence based practice? (EBP)
This is a social determinant of health that results in many clients not adhering to a therapeutic regimen like medications.
What is cost or socioeconomic status?
These are legal documents that allow a patient to dictate their care in the event they are not able to speak for themselves.
What are advanced healthcare directives?
This is a part of therapeutic communication that allows patients to work through stress and anxiety.
What is allowing patients to verbally express any concerns or negative emotions?
This is the point in the structured communication where interventions are suggested and questions are clarified.
What is the recommendation?
This competency uses data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
What is Quality Improvement?
This teaching technique is beneficial when new skills are needed.
What is demonstration and practice?
This is an action that continuous quality improvement committee will complete after a sentinel event.
What is review the events leading up to each error?