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✔✔TIGER competencies - ✔✔Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform: All
nurses need basic computer skills, information literacy, and information management to
improve delivery of patient care
✔✔Consensus model - ✔✔APRN practice model that aims to improve access to APRN
care by providing guidance for states to adopt uniformity in the regulation of APRN
roles, licensure, accreditation, certification, and education
Supports nurses to work more easily across different states and enhance the ANCC
certification process by preserving the highest standards of nursing excellence
✔✔Core competencies - ✔✔- direct clinical practice
- guidance and coaching
- consultation
- evidence based practice
- leadership
- collaboration
- ethical decision making
✔✔The nurse training act of 1964 - ✔✔A law signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to
solve the nurse shortage problem in the US. The law called for establishment of student
loan funds, cooperation of the public, and private non-profit schools of nursing.
✔✔National organization of nurse practitioner faculties - ✔✔Created a list of 9 core
competencies to use as guidelines for NP programs to help ensure NPs acquire the
necessary skills in the field
✔✔What are the components of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner
Faculties - ✔✔1. Scientific foundation
2. Leadership
3. Quality
4. Practice inquiry
5. Technology & information literacy
6. Policy
7. Health delivery system
8. Ethics
9/ independent care
✔✔Primary care settings - ✔✔MD office
Hospital
Home
Assisted Living
, Rehabilitation
Long Term Care
Hospice
✔✔Secondary care settings - ✔✔-Hospitals
-Surgical Centers
✔✔Tertiary care settings - ✔✔those care settings providing highly specialized services
✔✔Primary care focus - ✔✔On general care for overall pt education and wellness
✔✔Secondary and tertiary care focus - ✔✔Treat more severe conditions that require
specialized knowledge and more intensive health monitoring
✔✔Nurse anesthesia practice - ✔✔Provides anesthesia in collaboration with surgeons,
dentists, podiatrists, physician anesthesiologists
✔✔Incident to billing - ✔✔Incident-to billing refers to basic services, such as weighing
and temperature taking, provided by a physician or done within the physician's office
with the physician in close proximity. It is NOT allowed within the hospital setting.
✔✔Medically underserved areas - ✔✔health professional shortage areas in which there
are fewer than the generally accepted minimum number of health care providers per
thousand population. There are about 3960 designated health professional shortage
areas across the United States.
✔✔ Patient engagement - ✔✔Encouraging pt to make informed decisions and be an
active participant in one's health and health care
✔✔Why is patient engagement important - ✔✔Patients are more likely to take their
medications as prescribed resulting in fewer complications, minimized unnecessary
visits, and emergency admissions in the hospital
✔✔Leadership styles - ✔✔- dysfunctional
- transformational
- situational
- clinical
- professional
- systems
✔✔Dysfunctional leader - ✔✔Micromanager, passive aggressive, narcissistic
personality, quest for personal power
✔✔Transformation leader - ✔✔Purpose of the leader and the follower becomes fused,
creating unity, wholeness, and a collective purpose