DISEASE MECHANISMS AND
MANAGEMENT EXAM
⫸ Essential 4: Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline. Answer: The
generation, synthesis, translation, application and dissemination of
nursing knowledge to improve health and the healthcare system.
1. Advance the scholarship of nursing
2. Integrate best evidence into practice
3. Promote the ethical conduct of scholarly activities
⫸ Essential 5: Quality and Safety. Answer: Employment of established
and emerging principles of safety and improvement. Core nursing value
that enhances care and minimizes risk for clinicians and patients. Can be
environment, violence, burnout, ergonomics, chemicals.
1. Apply quality improvement principles in care delivery
2. Contribute to a culture of patient safety
3. Contribute to a culture of provider/work enviro safety
⫸ Essential 6: Inter-professional Partnerships. Answer: Collaborate
across the professions including the care team, patients, families,
communities and stakeholders to give the best care through better
experiences and outcomes. You must demonstrate altruism, excellence,
caring, ethics, respect, communication and shared accountability.
, 1. Communicate in a manner that show a partnership approach to care
delivery.
2. Perform in diff. team roles using principles and values of team
dynamics.
3. Use knowledge from nursing and other professions to meet needs.
4. Work with other professions to maintain respect, learning and shared
values.
⫸ Essential 7: Systems-Based Practice. Answer: Nurses effectively and
proactively coordinate resources to provide safe, quality and equitable
care to diverse populations. Utilizing EB methods.
1. Apply knowledge of systems to work eff. across the continuum of
care.
2. Incorporate consideration of cost-effectiveness of care.
3. Application of innovation and EBP.
⫸ Essential 8: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies. Answer:
Information and communication technologies and informatics processes
are used to provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision
making, and support professionals as they expand knowledge & wisdom
for practice.
1. Describe info. & communication technology tools used
2. use to gather data, create info and generate knowledge.
3. Use it to deliver safe nursing care to all populations and settings.
4. Use info/comm. technology to support documentation of care and
communication with providers, patients and all system levels.