Communication & Collaboration
Listening to your patient without interrupting is an example of this type of communication.
What is active listening?
Care coordination helps organize patient care and information around the patient's needs and these.
What are the patient's preferences?
Before you delegate a task, you must make sure the person is this.
What is qualified/competent?
This person is the best source of information about their pain.
Who is the patient?
Nurses protect, promote, and optimize patient health in this professional role.
What is nursing practice?
When you work together with other nurses and doctors to care for a patient, you are doing this.
What is collaboration?
This is the main goal of care coordination.
What is improving patient outcomes?
This document tells you what tasks nurses can and cannot delegate in your state.
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
Every nurse should do this when a patient reports pain.
What is assess and manage it?
When you speak up for your patient's rights, you are acting as this.
What is an advocate?
A nurse should do this before giving report to another nurse about a patient.
What is gather all patient information?
Nurses use this type of technology to improve communication among the healthcare team.
What is information technology?
You must do this to your patient before delegating any task.
What is assess the patient?
To assess pain effectively, you need privacy and this type of relationship with your patient.
What is a trusting relationship?
Nurses can perform some interventions without a doctor's order because they have this.
What is autonomy/independent practice?
This is the most important thing to do when communicating with a patient who is in pain.
What is listen and believe them?
These two groups of people are most vulnerable and need care coordination services.
Who are older adults with frailty and children with special healthcare needs?
When delegating to someone new, you should ask if they have done this before.
What is the task/skill?
These healthcare professionals can help patients with chronic pain manage daily activities.
Who are physical therapists and occupational therapists?
This state law defines what nurses can and cannot do.
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
Nurses work with patients, families, and other healthcare team members to provide this type of care.
What is team-based care?
Care coordination helps prevent these three negative outcomes in healthcare.
What are fragmented care, high costs, and poor health outcomes?
Good delegation helps improve patient safety and this aspect of work.
What is efficiency/productivity?
If a pain management plan isn't working, the nurse should do this with the healthcare team.
What is collaborate to revise the plan?
Nurses are responsible for their nursing actions, which is called this.
What is accountability?