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Professional Nursing Midterm Exam Questions and Answers Goldmark Report: (1923)- Separate schools of nursing from hospitals, require a high-school diploma fir entry into program Brown Report: (1948); Led to accreditation of nursing schools Robert Wood Johnson/ IOM Report: (2010); Nurses should practice to the full extent of licensure and education, involved in policy PhH in Nursing: Research based Curriculum: Plan that describes the program's philosophy, levels, competencies, and course content Accreditation: How a program meets established standards Difference between training and education? Training: Fixed habits and skills, repetition, authority, coercion, emphasized dependency Education: Self-discipline, responsibility, accountability, self-mastery Communication: Successful transfer of a message and meaning from one person or group to another SBAR: Situation Background Assessment Recommendation Team STEPPS: Strategies and tools to enhance performance and patient safety Collaboration: All people are listened to and decisions are made together Coordination: Organizing patient care activities and sharing information along all of the participants concerned with a patient's care to achieve safer and more effective care Therapeutic Communication: Communication between health care provider and patient (and patient family) that takes place to advance the patient's well-being and care Is Therapeutics Communication different or the same as the communication we have with family/ friends? Different Assertiveness: "I" statements, without controlling and bossing Interdisciplinary: All of one provider working together (Ex: Nurses) Multidisciplinary: A variety of providers working together (Ex: Nurses, PT, Nutrition, Physician) What are the team member roles? Coordinator Critic Idea person Implementer External contact Inspector Team builder What is the role of the coordinator? Pulls the work of the team together What is the role of the critic? Keeps eye on team effectiveness What is the role of the idea person? Encourages innovation What is the role of the implementer? Ensures effective team functioning What is the role of the external contact? Looks after external contacts What is the role of the inspector? Ensures standards are met What is the role of the team builder? Cheerleader; develops team spirit What are the phases of team building? Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Adjourning What happens during the Forming phase? Team members are polite and excited. Getting to know other team members What happens during the Storming phase? Members push boundaries, conflict between members, frustration develops, unclear of goals, challenge leader's authority What happens during the Norming phase? Conflicts are resolved, members know one another and appreciate talents, develop commitment to the team goal, make progress toward goals What happens during the Performing phase? Working effectively and getting the job done Conflict Resolution: Leadership and participation from team members Respect Compromise Collaborative resolution Peer to Peer Incivility: Rude or unsociable speech or behavior toward peers What are the five steps of communication? The sender has an idea to communicate The sender encodes the idea in a message The message travels over a channel The receivers decodes the message The receiver understands the message and send feedback to sender What is the purpose of Therapeutic Communication? To collect information about patient To provide feedback in form of education and training To assess the patient's behavior Difference between assertiveness and aggression: Assertiveness: "I" statements without controlling and bossing Aggression: Ordering people around Just Culture: Ability to be assertive and admit to making a mistake Barriers to coordination of care: Lack of clear plan of care Limited leadership Team members are overworked Don't include patient and family in planning care Competition amongst team members to control decisions For-Profit Organizations: Extra money is distributed in the form of bonuses for the higher-ups Non-Profit Organizations: Re-invest extra money into the care provided for the patients rather than bonuses Organizational Structure: How the organizations is configured Vertical Structure: Bureaucratic and highly centralized, certain people report to certain people (Ex: most hospitals) Horizontal Structure: Decentralized, everyone is on the same playing field Matrix Structure: Individuals report to multiple people (Ex: college of nursing) What does the state Board of Nursing do? ENFORCES what nurses can and cannot do What does the Nurse Practice Act (NPA) do? DECIDES what nurses can and cannot do Chain of Command: Upper level (CNO, CNE, VP) Middle level (Service line directors) First level (Unit managers) What is the upper level responsible for? (CNO, CNE, VP) Establishing goals and objectives, accountability for service line director's actions What is the middle level responsible for? (Service line directors) Budgeting, hiring, discipline, supplies, policies, procedures

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Professional Nursing Midterm Exam
Questions and Answers
Autonomy: - answer Right to make decisions and take control

Responsibility: - answer Being answerable for things within one's power, control, or
management

Accountability: - answer Accepting responsibility for outcomes

Professionalism: - answer The competence or skill expected of a professional

What did Florence Nightingale do? – answer rStarted the first nursing school in London
in 1860, introduced holistic nursing, recognized importance of environment in healing,
did nursing research (statistician)

Why was Florence Nightingale so important in nursing history? – answer She is the
mother of modern nursing; she told people to wash hands in between patients, which
decreased the mortality rate

What were Florence Nightingale's views regarding the environment of care? -
answerShe believed the environment is important for the healing process, did not
believe in germ theory

What are the characteristics of a profession? - answerEducation acquired in college or
university
Education prolonged
Work involves mental creativity
Decisions based on science or theory
Commitment and identification strong
Workers are autonomous (independent)
People unlikely to change professions
Commitment above money
Individual accountability

What are the benefits of joining a Professional Association? - answerProfessional
obligation
Publish journals
Offer continuing education
Develop professional standards
Influence policy/ political action
Mentoring
Colleagueship

, How is the Image of Nursing formed? - answerSocial context (society's image of
nursing)

Who is responsible for the Image of Nursing? - answerNurses

Public Policy: - answerPolicy made at the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of
the federal, state, and local levels of government that affects individual and institutional
behaviors under the government's respective jurisdiction

PAC (Political Action Committee): - answerAn organization that raises money privately
to influence elections or legislation, especially at the federal level

Politics: - answerThe activities associated with the governance of a country or other
area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to
achieve power

Lobbyist: - answerSomeone hired by a business or a cause to persuade legislators to
support that business or cause

Lobbying: - answerSeek to influence (a politician or public official) on an issue

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: - answerEnsure all Americans have access
to quality, affordable health care and creates the transformation within the health care
system necessary to contain costs

Why should nurses care about policy? - answerPolicy provides for finding solutions to
problems, regulates nursing practice (licensure), and provides money (ACA-benefit
some)

How does policy affect healthcare delivery? - answerAccess to care, staffing, standards
of practice

Where is policy developed? - answerFederal, state, and local levels

How can nurses impact policy? - answerBy lobbying, being on committees, taking part
in Political Action Committees (PACS) (Ex: ANA), Grassroots advocacy

Caring: - answerThe Art of Nursing; doing for others what they cannot do for themselves

Intuition: - answerHaving a gut feeling, related to experience, is an ART, not a science

Advocate: - answerKnowledge of what patient's want and what they think their
outcomes should be, balancing patient needs, patient inclusion, and patient's opinion
Recommendation and Support of patient

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