Foundations of Nursing Practice
This type of nursing care focuses on helping patients reach their highest level of physical, emotional, and social wellness.
What is holistic care?
When a nurse admits a mistake and takes steps to correct it, they are demonstrating this core professional responsibility.
What is accountability?
This type of listening involves focusing completely on what the patient is saying and observing nonverbal cues.
What is active listening?
Before providing teaching to a patient from another culture, the nurse first asks about the patient’s beliefs and preferences. This action demonstrates this culturally competent skill.
What is cultural awareness?
This term describes the ability to influence and inspire others toward achieving a shared goal.
What is leadership?
This term describes a nursing program that meets a state’s minimum requirements for operation.
What is approval?
A nurse reports an error immediately after discovering it, demonstrating this ethical principle.
What is accountability?
This step of the nursing process requires interpreting data before identifying a nursing diagnosis.
What is analysis?
Nurses can reduce cultural bias by practicing this form of self-examination and education.
What is self-reflection and cultural competence training?
A nurse ensures tasks given to a CNA are appropriate to their skill level and scope of practice. This demonstrates this leadership skill.
What is effective delegation?
This individual is known as the founder of modern nursing and emphasized the environment’s effect on healing.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This term describes a nurse’s failure to act as a reasonably prudent professional, resulting in harm to a patient.
What is malpractice?
When evaluating a care plan, the nurse must do this if a goal is not met.
What is revise the plan of care?
This belief, that one’s own culture is superior to others, can interfere with culturally sensitive care.
What is cultural bias
Prioritizing patient care using the ABCs (airway, breathing, circulation) shows this essential leadership skill.
What is time management or prioritization?
When a nurse designs a care plan tailored to a patient’s unique needs, they are applying this aspect of the nursing process.
What is individualized care planning?
Respecting a patient’s right to refuse treatment supports this ethical principle.
What is autonomy?
These three nursing responsibilities should never be delegated to unlicensed personnel.
What are assessment, teaching, and evaluation?
When a nurse communicates openly and respects all team members’ roles, they are practicing this type of teamwork.
What is interprofessional collaboration?
When conflict arises among team members, a nurse should first do this before involving management.
What is address the issue directly and privately?
nurses demonstrate this leadership quality when they take initiative to improve patient outcomes instead of waiting for direction.
What is professional accountability
Confidential patient information can legally be shared under which three circumstances?
What are situations involving patient consent, legal requirements, or risk of harm to others?
Selecting evidence-based interventions and adjusting them for individual patients demonstrates this higher-level thinking skill.
What is clinical judgment or critical thinking?
Including family in patient care decisions demonstrates this culturally competent approach.
What is family-centered or culturally responsive care?
Recognizing and managing one’s own emotions to better lead others demonstrates this leadership quality.
What is emotional intelligence?