QSEN
Minimizing the risk of harm to patients and providers
What is Safety?
The RN gauges progress toward attainment of outcome
What is evaluation?
These APRNs provide surgical anesthesia under the guidance and supervision of an anesthesiologist
What is a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist?
Help patients gain and attain health, manage disease and symptoms, and attain a maximal level of function and independence through the healing process
What is caregiver?
Educational or informational training provided by an individual health care facility
What is inservice education?
Using information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making
What is informatics?
The RN collects comprehensive data relevant to the patients health and/or the situation
What is assessment?
This APRN provides independent care for women during normal pregnancy, labor, and delivery and care for the newborn.
What is a Certified Nurse-Midwife?
Explain concepts and facts about health,describe the reason for routine care activities, demonstrate procedures such as self care activities, reinforce learning or patient behavior, and evaluate patients progress in learning
What is Educator?
Being selfless and concerned for others
What is altruism?
An example of this is using tools such as flow charts and diagrams to make the process of care explicit.
What is Quality Improvement?
The RN carries out the identified plan
What is Implementation?
This APRN provides health care to a group of patients, usually in an outpatient, ambulatory care, or community based setting.
What is a nurse practitioner?
Protecting patients human and legal rights and providing assistance in asserting these rights when needed
What is an Advocate?
This organization is designed to advance and protect the profession of nursing
What is the ANA?
An example of this would be involving the patients family and friends in care.
What is Patient centered care?
The RN analyzes the assessment data to determine the issues
What is Diagnosis?
This APRN is an expert clinician in a specialized area of practice.
What is a Clinical Nurse Specialist?
Providing clear communication in order to advocate for patients, and give care effectively.
What is Communicator?
The protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy.
What is the ANA definition of nursing?
Function effectively within nursing and interprofessional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision making to achieve quality patient care.
What is Teamwork and Collaboration?
The RN identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the patient or situation.
What is Outcomes Identification?
This nurse conducts evidence based practice and research to improve nursing care and further define and expand the scope of nursing practice
What is a nurse researcher?
Establishes an environment for collaborative patient-centered care, coordinates activities of members of the nursing staff
What is Manager?
Addresses the challenge to prepare nurses with the competencies needed to continuously improve the quality of care in their work environments
What is the QSEN Initiative?