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Ellen Komar
What is the name of Stamford Hospital's Chief Nursing Officer?
100
This is the forum where nurses on patient care units make decisions about nursing practice.
What is the Unit Based Council?
100
"Duty to Self and Duty to Others" is Provision 5 of this national code.
What is the ANA Code of Ethics?
100
This innovation was implemented on nursing units to help patients feel ready to sleep.
What is the Tuck Me In initiative? Extra credit: What HCACHP indicator does this support?
100
This is how unit specific and hospital data are shared on the nursing units of SH.
What is a Quality Board?
200
Via staff meetings, Town Hall meetings, e-mail, face-to-face, Shared Goverance councils and staff huddles.
How does leadership communicate with clinical nurses?
200
These are 2 ways professional development is supported by Stamford Hospital.
What are tuition reimbursement, clinical ladder advancement, certification exam reimbursement and succesion planning?
200
These are the 4 components of the Professional Practice Model.
What are Professional Development, Evidence Based Practice, Communication and Collaboration?
200
This initiative improves patient safety and allows patients to participate in communication regarding their care on an ongoing basis.
What is Bedside Shift Report?
200
This scorecard is updated quarterly and compares individual unit performance to a national external benchmark.
What is Go For Green? (NDNQI)
300
This kind of planning is in place when a nurse is mentored for promotion.
What is succession planning?
300
Shared governance councils utilize this process in shared decision making.
What is consensus?
300
Components of this unit based system include: decision making, standards of practice, how work is allocated and patient population served.
What is the Care Delivery System?
300
"Inpatient Suicide Assessment", "Pediatric Scoliosis", and "Aggressive Behavior in Psych" are examples of this.
What nursing research projects have been conducted at SH?
300
Better than the national benchmark mean or median 5 out of 8 quarters.
What is the performance standard for our Go-For-Green NDNQI Indicators?
400
This is visually represented as a round table with the Coordinating Council in the center.
What is the Shared Governance Model?
400
Nurses receive recognition and monetary reward through this promotion process.
What is the Clinical Ladder?
400
This is provided by a peer of your choice annually during your mid-year review.
What is Peer Feedback/Evaluation? Extra credit: Compare with Peer Review
400
This group insures that the rights of human subjects are protected during the research process.
What is the IRB (Institutional Review Board)?
400
These indicators include CAUTI, Falls, CLABSI, HAPU, Pediatric PIV, Assaults
What are Nursing Sensitive Indicators?
500
This includes core strategies and supportive strategies that align with the Hospital Strategic Plan.
What is the Nursing Strategic Plan?
500
These are the building blocks of shared decision making at Stamford Hospital
What are shared governence councils and unit based councils?
500
This may be called when a nurse has concerns related to a patient's autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence or distributive justice.
What is an ethics consult? Extra credit: How do you initiate an ethics consult?
500
At this forum, nurses discuss evidence based practice and research articles that have been chosen by their nursing peers.
What is Journal Club?
500
This refers to data points that are shown over a time period (e.g. 8 quarters), allowing nurses to analyze their performance on any given measure.
What is trended data?