WGU 157 Problem Solving Exam Questions and With Distinction level Marking scheme updated 2024/2025
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WGU 157 Problem Solving Exam Questions and With Distinction level Marking scheme updated 2024/2025
Vision Statement - correct answer Describes what an organization will look like in the future.
Nurse Stress, Burnout, or Overload - correct answer Often results from Poor Delegation Skills
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WGU 157 Problem Solving Exam Questions
and With Distinction level Marking scheme
updated 2024/2025
Vision Statement - correct answer Describes what an organization will look like in the
future.
Nurse Stress, Burnout, or Overload - correct answer Often results from Poor
Delegation Skills
Mortality Rate - correct answer The ratio of the number of patient deaths (numerator)
per the total number of patients in a defined population (denominator).
Infection Rate - correct answer The frequency of occurrence of the new cases of
infection within a defined population during a specified time frame.
Preferred measure of central tendency - correct answer Mean or Average
Closing the Loop - correct answer A component of care coordination that ensures key
information is exchanged during care transitions, referrals, or other patient transfers
from provider-to-provider or organization-to-organization.
Note: Submitting or transmitting information does NOT ensure receipt of information into
the hands of an actual human being.
IHI Science of Improvement Model - correct answer Form the Team
Set the Aim
Establish the Measures
Select the Changes
Test the Changes - Pilot Study (Small Scale) - PDSA cycle begin
,Implement the Changes - Large Scale
Spread the Changes (to others)
Patient Population - correct answer The demographics and/or distinctive features of a
group of patients being serviced: gender, age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, rural,
urban, chronic disease, acute illness, procedure, etc.
Delegation - correct answer Assigning responsibility or authority to a subordinate to
carry out specific activities. The goals for the APN are to:
1. Make the best use of time and skills by relinquishing duties to others - the 'delegator'
needs to stop being the 'doer'
2. Grow and develop team members to their full potential.
Trend - correct answer A pattern of gradual change in a series of data points
demonstrating movement in a certain direction over time, represented by a line or curve
on a graph.
Violation - correct answer Deliberate or intentional choice by an individual to diverge
from an accepted process, policy, standard, rule or regulation.
Strategic Planning - correct answer An organization's process of defining its strategy,
or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy.
Quality Improvement should be integrated into the Strategic Plan.
Mission Statement - correct answer Describes the reason for the organizations's
current existence.
Lapse - correct answer The plan was good, but memory of all the steps of the plan
was poor.
, (Staff intended to perform the process as planned but forgot a step in the process).
Slip - correct answer The plan was good, but execution was poor. (Staff intended to
perform the process as planned and remembered the steps, but failed to do it correctly).
Mistake - correct answer The plan was poor, but execution was good.
(Staff followed a poorly planned process)
Transformational Leader - correct answer Is ready, willing, and able to inspire and lead
people where they need to go (not merely where they want to go).
An agent for change who has vision, influence, clinical knowledge, and professional
nursing expertise, and who also sees that transformation may involve 'shaking things
up' to birth new ideas and innoventions.
Intervention - correct answer A step implemented in a QI plan to redeisgn a process or
system and affect a particular change.
Participatory Leadership - correct answer An approach where leaders interact with
other participants as peers, engaging them in the decision-making process and playing
an equal role in the process as others and jointly carrying out the problem solving
activities.
Consultative Leadership - correct answer A style where leaders engage
subordinates/peers in the decision-making and problem-solving process, but ultimately
make the final decisions for the team.
Autocartic Leadership - correct answer A clear top-down approach where a single
individual has complete power of decision-making and little discussion is had for
external input.
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