Yoder-Wise Exam
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse - ANSa group of nurses, prepared at the graduate
level, with defined roles and scopes who function in expanded nursing roles. Those roles
are: certified registered nurse anesthetists, certified nurse-midwives, clinical nurse
specialists, and certified nurse practitioners.
clinical processes - ANSa defined sequence of steps needed to ensure that basic functions
are fulfilled in a standardized manner, ensuring safety and quality, such as medication
procurement and administration.
Complexity theory - ANSrequires leaders to expand and respond to engaging dynamic
change and focus on relationships rather than on prescribing and approaching change as a
lock-step, pre-prescribed method. Traditional organizational hierarchy plays a less significant
role as the "keeper of high level knowledge" and replaces it with the idea that knowledge
applied to complex problems is better distributed among the human assets within an
organization, without regard to hierarchy. Leaders try less to control the future and spend
more time influencing, innovating, and responding to the many factors that influence health
care.
Emotional intelligence - ANSmonitoring emotions in a situation to guide actions and inform
thought processes
Evidence based organizational practice - ANSscientifically derived approaches to delivering
care that optimizes professional roles, practices, and coordination of activities
followership - ANSthose with whom a leader interacts; involves assertive use of personal
behaviors in contributing towards organizational outcomes while still acquiescing certain
tasks to the leader or other team members
Leadership - ANSthe use of personal traits to constructively and ethically influence patients,
families, and staff through a process in which clinical and organizational outcomes are
achieved through collective efforts
Magnet Recognition Program - ANSthe only national designation built on and evolving
through nursing research that is designed to recognize nursing excellence of healthcare
organizations through a self-nominating, appraisal process
management - ANSthe activities needed to plan, organize, motivate, and control the human
and material resources needed to achieve outcomes consistent with the organization's
mission and purpose
Management theory - ANSthe theory related to the activities described in management
Motivation - ANSthe instigation of action based on various factors, both intrinsic and extrinsic
,Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - ANSlegislation aimed at increasing access to
uninsured Americans to quality, affordable care while reducing costs of unnecessary
services. The PPACA was upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court in 2012
Process of care - ANSthe desired sequence of steps that have been designed to achieve
clinical standardization
Social networking - ANSthe use of technology and other mechanisms to create a web of
relationships with common involvement in an area of focus or concern
Triple aim - ANSa shortcut for describing contemporary healthcare reform: to improve
access, improve quality, and decrease or control healthcare costs
values - ANSinner forces that influence decision making and priority setting
vision - ANSthe desired future state
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - ANSThe primary federal agency
devoted to improving quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care.
American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians (ABQAURP) -
ANSA multidisciplinary professional organization that focuses on those providers in roles
related to quality assurance and utilization review.
Det Norske Veritas (DNV) - ANS(Diagnostic related group-DRG) The basis for prospective
payment to hospitals that Medicare has used.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) - ANSAn independent organization devoted to
improving patient safety and health care globally.
Institute of Medicine (IOM) - ANSAn organization that works outside of the federal
government to provide independent, scientific advice.
Magnet Recognition Program - ANSThe only national designation built on and evolving
through nursing research haty is designed to recognize nursing excellence of healthcare
organizations through a self-nominating appraisal process.
National Quality Forum (NQF) - ANSFormerly Det Norske Veritas. An internationally based
organization that accredits many fields, including health care.
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) - ANSAn institute devoted to providing
resources related to the QSEN Competencies for both undergraduates and graduate
practitioners. The knowledge, skills, and attitudes are defined to reflect the necessary
abilities one must have to practice safely and to strive for quality. The six competencies are
patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality
improvement, safety, and informatics.
, TeamSTEPPS (an AHRQ strategy to promote patient safety) - ANSA teamwork system
designed to increase patient safety.
The Joint Commission - ANSAn organization that accredits healthcare organizations and is
deemed by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as holding healthcare
facilities to CMS standards.
Emerging workforce - ANSThe so-called 20-something generation
Entrenched workforce - ANSEmployed persons older than 35
Leadership - ANSThe use of personal traits to constructively and ethically influence patients,
families, and staff through a process in which clinical and organizational outcomes are
achieved through collective efforts.
Management - ANSThe activities needed to plan, organize, motivate, and control the human
and material resources needed to achieve outcomes consistent with the organization's
mission and purpose.
mentor - ANSAn experienced person who helps a less experienced person navigate into
expertise.
Transactional leadership - ANSThe act of using rewards and punishments as part of daily
oversight of employees in seeking to get the group to accomplish a task.
Transformational leadership - ANSAn act of encouraging followers to follow the leader's style
and change their interests into a group interest with concern for a broader goal.
Case Management - ANSa person-oriented service that reflects multidisciplinary cooperation
and coordination
change agent - ANSindividuals with formal or informal legitimate power whose purpose is to
initiate, champion, and direct or guide change
follower - ANSperson who contributes to a group's outcomes by implementing activities and
providing appropriate feedback
leader - ANSperson who demonstrates and exercises influence and power over others
management care - ANScare purchased through a public or private healthcare organization
whose goal is to promote quality healthcare outcomes for patients at the lowest cost possible
through planning,directing, and coordinating care delivered by healthcare organizations that
it may own, have contractual agreements with, or have authority over by virtue of the fact
that it reimburses the organization for services provided its patients. This model rewards
providers for low utilization of care that is relatively low in cost; also a system of care in
which a designated person determines the services the patient uses
manager - ANSthe person with accountability for a group of people