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Transformational Leadership
Structural Empowerment
Exemplary Professional Practice
New Knowledge Innovations
Empirical Quality Outcomes
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Our Chief Nursing Officer

Who is Fran/Frances Cartwright

100
A unit based forum for staff input into the decision making process.
What is UBSG? (Unit based shared governance)
100

This schematic was developed by the Practice Council as a conceptual framework for nursing practice at BHLou.

What is the Professional Practice Model?

100

Organization that BHLou submits data to and is benchmarked through.

What is NDNQI (National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators)?

100

Examples of these include Falls with Injury, Central Line Infections (CLABSIs), Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIs), and Hospital Acquired Pressure Injuries (HAPI).

What are Nurse Sensitive Indicators (NSI)

200

The Management style at BHLou.

What is Participative?

200
An opportunity for an individual to show advanced knowledge in their specialty area.
What is certification?
200
"Modified Total Patient Care"
What is the Care Delivery Model at BHLou?
200
Examples of this include solo module, interpreter phones, reference books, access to interpreters.
What is cultural competency?
200

Empirical Outcome boards, Weekly Safety Broadcast, and communication from Nurse Managers and ADNs in huddles are all examples of this

Ways that nursing quality improvement is communicated in the hospital?

300

It is "Exceptional Patient/Family Focused Care"

What is the BHLou Nursing Mission?

300
They are Quality, Research, Practice and Education.
What are the 4 Shared Governance Councils?
300
Medical record audits, quality audits and evaluating peers are examples of this.
What is peer review?
300
This is defined by Practice Inquiry, retrieval and critique of best available evidence to enhance patient care and outcomes.
What is Evidence Based Practice (EBP)?
300

Nursing Communication, Nurse Manager Checks on You and Nurse Checks on You are all examples of this. 

Nurse Sensitive Patient Satisfaction indicators or Nursing Sensitive HCAHPS indicators

400
"Provide patient/family-centered care directed at optimizing the health and dignity of the whole person with a nursing practice that is empowered, innovative, evidence-based and collaborative, building on our tradition of excellence."
What is the BHLou Nursing Vision?
400
A program to recognize/reward nurses who demonstrate significant professional growth and involvement.
What is the Clinical Ladder Program?
400
ARNPs- Laura Mitchell and Sharon Ruhl, wound care nurses, patient satisfaction repersentative, nurse educators, diabetes educators, Dr Cronin from Bellarmine are examples of people that perform this function to all nurses at BHLou
What are resources?
400
*****************DAILY DOUBLE******************* Our BHLou research consultant.
Who is Dr. Sherrill Cronin?
400

Use of bed exit alarms, CHG bathing, line rounds, and nurse-driving catheter removal protocol are all examples of this. 

Patient safety initiatives

500
At BHLou, ours are...Accountability, Compassion, Professionalism, Advocacy, Integrity, Respect, Stewardship, Excellence and Collaboration
What are our BHLou Nursing Values?
500
Examples include delegating tasks to ancillary staff, structuring the patients therapies for the day, developing the plan of care, working with CC to plan discharge, sending consults to chaplin, working with palliative for end of life care....
What are examples of nursing coordination of care?
500
Developed by Jean Watson, this is part of the foundation upon which our Professional Practice Model is built, and helps to answer the "why" of nursing practice.
What is the Theory of Human Caring?
500
A systematic investigation, including development, testing and/or evaluation, designed to contribute NEW knowledge to nursing practice.
What is Nursing Research?
500
This class of benchmark is the preferred standard to use when reviewing outcome to provide a broader more nuanced perspective. 

National benchmark