Clinical Nurse Specialist Review 2 – Qs And As
Nursing sensitive indicators ✔️Ans - structures processes and patient
outcomes that are influenced by nursing
Nurse sensitive indicators structures ✔️Ans - include staffing levels,
educational attainment of staff, skill levels, and certificate levels
Nurse sensitive indicators processes ✔️Ans - include procedures, assessment,
and implementation of care and nursing satisfaction
Nursing sensitive indicators outcomes ✔️Ans - include patient outcomes
(infection rates, pressure sores) that are directly influenced by nursing care
Nursing sensitive indicators in use ✔️Ans - nursing hours/day, nurse to
patient ratio, staff turn over, nosocomial infections, patient falls, patient
injuries, rate of pressure sores, use restraints, staff mix,rn education n ped
peripheral iv infiltrate
Dashboard ✔️Ans - easy to read computer program that interested a variety
of performance measures into one display to provide overview of the
organization.
Critical pathways ✔️Ans - outlines goals in patient care and sequence and
time of interventions taken to achieve goals. two types guidelines and
integrated
Guidelines of critical pathways ✔️Ans - outline patient care. documentation is
not required to demonstrate the guidelines have been followed
Integrated critical pathways ✔️Ans - documentation with dates and
signatures is necessary to show that the steps have been carried out and to
indicate specific outcomes
Nursing therapeutics categories ✔️Ans - comprises all activities intended for
patient care including assessment themselves as well as outcome goals. touch
therapy, role supplementation, care, use of self, symptom management,
transitional care, comfort
, pneumococcal polysaccharide 23 vaccine ✔️Ans - children and those 65
years old and high risk patients . one dose. every 5 years.
herpes zoster vaccine ✔️Ans - most common over 50 with chronic medical
condition. recommended for over 60 single dose. prevents 50 percent cases
and decreases pain and severity. contraindicated to allergy to gelatin or
neomycin and immunocompromised
influenza vaccine ✔️Ans - different one each year. two types. trivalent
inactivated vaccine and live attenuated influenza vaccine. 2 weeks to build
antibodies. recommended six months n up. contraindicated allergy eggs hx
reaction guillian Barre.
autonomy ✔️Ans - ethical principle that individual has right to make
decisions about his own care
justice ✔️Ans - ethical principle relates to distribution of limited resources
healthcare benefits to members of society.
Havighurst's Theory ✔️Ans - details the process of aging and defines specific
tasks for early adulthood to older adulthood
biological theory- homeostatic ✔️Ans - body composed various chemical
elements must be maintained in proper balance. when body cannot maintain
homeostasis aging occurs
biological theory-programmed cellular ✔️Ans - cells and organisms have a
life span that is programmed aging occurs at end of lifespan
biological theory- single organ ✔️Ans - aging related to changes in single
organ.
biological theory- somatic mutation ✔️Ans - stations occur regularly in body.
eventually interfering with body functioning resulting aging n death.
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