_____ is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current
best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual
patients. Correct Answers Evidence-based practice
_____ was recognized by the American Nurses Association
(ANA) as a nursing specialty in 1992 and is one of the fastest
growing practice areas in health care. Correct Answers Nursing
informatics
. A staff nurse has been working in the neonatal critical care unit
for 10 years. She believes that a professional nurse is a lifelong
learner. Many staff members come to her for clinical problem
solving and advice. This nurse has Correct Answers informal
power
. Attributes of a total quality organization according to BNQA
include: Correct Answers strategic planning.
focus on patients, other customers, and markets.
organizational performance results.
. Mercy Hospital compares its surgical site infection rate to
General Heart Hospital, which is known as a best-in-class
hospital for its surgical site infection rates. Mercy Hospital
studies General Heart Hospital's methods for reducing surgical
site infection rates and uses that information to improve its own
performance. This quality performance method is called:
Correct Answers benchmarking
,) At its start, shared governance requires the education and
support of organizational executives, managers, and point-of-
care staff. Organizational benefits include: Correct Answers
Accountability of the nurse.
Improved financial outcomes.
More expert involvement at the point of care.
A clearly recognizable process of providing care that has an
evidence base demonstrating that it reduces the likelihood of
harm is: Correct Answers a patient safety practice.
A framework for understanding health care improvement has
been proposed by the IOM Committee on Quality of Health
Care in America. The aims for health care quality improvement
propose that health care systems ensure that care is: Correct
Answers safe.
timely
efficient.
patient-centered.
A Healthcare Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (HFMEA) for
a new bar-coding system is being conducted by an
interdisciplinary team. List the steps of the HFMEA in the
correct order. Correct Answers Flowcharting the steps of the
process being studied
Assessing risk points within the process steps
, Ranking key risk points in terms of their impact on the potential
failure of the system
Designing out the most critical of the potential failures
Recommending process improvements for prevention of the
failures
Identifying prevention strategies
Reporting action plans for implementing prevention strategies to
the enterprise leaders
Endorsing action plans for implementation
A nurse is documenting information in a computerized medical
record. Which of the following nursing actions may jeopardize
the confidentiality? Correct Answers Share password for
computer access w/ colleagues
A nurse is serving on a continuous quality improvement (CQI)
committee that has been assigned to develop a program to
reduce the number of medication administration errors following
a sentinel event at the facility. Which of the following strategies
should the committee plan to initiate first? Correct Answers
Review the events leading up to each medication administration
error.
A nurse manager is responsible for a unit consisting of 40 nurses
who report to two clinical supervisors. In addition, there are 10
support staff who report to an administrative supervisor. The
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