Clue: This is when you listen carefully and talk clearly so the whole healthcare team understands each other.
Good team communication
Clue: Understanding that patient care includes hospitals, insurance, community programs, and more.
Systems Thinking
Clue: This law protects a patient’s private health information.
HIPAA
Clue: Dressing correctly, being polite, and showing up on time show this.
Professional Behavior
Clue: The AACN Essentials prepare nurses for this level of practice.
Entry-level nursing practice
Clue: When everyone on the healthcare team shares responsibility for helping the patient get better.
Working together as a team
Clue: Trying to make care better and safer all the time using evidence and tracking results.
Quality Improvement
Clue: Nurses use this digital chart to see and record patient information.
EHR (electronic health record)
Clue: Keeping patient information private is part of this ethical responsibility.
confidentiality or respecting patients
Clue: Nurses and the IT team must work together when starting a new electronic chart system.
health information or EHR system
Clue: Nurses do this when they help connect the doctor, therapist, and other team members to keep care organized.
Coordinating care
Clue: Reporting mistakes or “almost mistakes” to help prevent harm is part of this safety culture.
Culture of Safety
Clue: Scanning barcodes before giving medicine helps prevent this.
medication error
Clue: Admitting when you don’t know something or when you made a mistake.
Accountability
Clue: Using checklists helps keep care safe and reduces mistakes.
Improving patient safety
Clue: A group of different health workers (like nurses, doctors, PT, pharmacy) working together for the same patient.
Interprofessional Team
Clue: Knowing how patients move through the hospital to avoid long wait times or delays.
Patient Flow
Clue: Telehealth helps people who live far away reach a doctor by improving this.
access to care
Clue: Following the rules, laws, and ethics of nursing shows this quality.
Integrity
Clue: A nurse who fights for fair and equal care for all is promoting this.
Health Equity
Clue: This communication tool helps everyone give clear patient updates during shift change.
SBAR
Clue: When nurses help address things like housing, food access, and transportation that affect health.
Population Health
Clue: Collecting data to see trends—like infections or readmission rates—is part of this.
Data Analysis
Clue: Always learning new things to stay up-to-date in nursing.
Professional Development
Clue: Doing the right thing even when no one is watching.
Ethical Professionalism