C157 for WGU-Essentials of Advanced Nursing
Practice Questions with Answers
Root Cause Analysis - ✔️✔️-Examining and learning from a single event, often
catastrophic. Using flowcharts and fishbone diagrams. Flow charts can also help the
team design new processes.
QSEN stands for - ✔️✔️-Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
QSEN and Systems thinking objective - ✔️✔️-To move away from blaming individuals
for adverse events and work to correct our systems and processes.
QSEN indicates that MSNs should promote systems that - ✔️✔️-reduce reliance on
memory to make care safer. Examples: Checklists, worksheets, standard order sets,
standardized timeliness, adding fields for documentation in records. These are
reminders or prompts.
Psychological Safety or Culture of Safety - ✔️✔️-By reducing the emphasis on blame
and shame, staff feel safe to report errors. Increased incident reports should result in
more opportunities for organization learning.
An increased number of incident reports do not mean increased number of incidences. -
✔️✔️-This may be an indicator of psychological safety.
Advanced Practice Role Key ideas: - ✔️✔️-Support engagement of team members:
Participate, Facilitate, Collaborate and Negotiate. Effective communication and
leadership. Conflict resolution, shared decision making with patients. Shared
governance with nurses and other staff. Patient centered care. Culture of safety and to
think big.
, Culture of safety - ✔️✔️-learn about human error and create better systems.
Think BIG - ✔️✔️-process from start to finish. Not just your part. Improving care for all,
not just those in your department or hospital.
Essentials of Masters Ed in Nursing - ✔️✔️-Key Standard. Used to design MSN
curriculum. Used by university surveyors to determine whether accreditation standards
have been met.
MSN - ✔️✔️-Should have a deeper understanding of nursing or an expanded range of
nursing knowledge compared to BSN or associate prepared nurses.
Inter-Professional Collaboration - ✔️✔️-Health professionals work together in small
groups providing care. Examples: oncology, OR, end of life or primary care.
Inter-Professional Collaboration team - ✔️✔️-Although most patient care is done by the
team of people, training is often focused on individual responsibilities and does not
prepare for the complex settings. Team members are education in their health
profession solo and likely have little knowledge of their team members' skill sets.
Act of collaboration in an inter-professional team might be best exemplified by - ✔️✔️-
defining patient goals individually and then coming together as a team to select the
most important ones. Care is too complex today for a single discipline to direct all
caregivers represented on the team.
The advanced nursing role centers on acting with high level of integrity by - ✔️✔️-
giving power and respect to each team member's voice. Integrating individual
differences. Resolving competing interests in order to safeguard each person's
contribution.
Practice Questions with Answers
Root Cause Analysis - ✔️✔️-Examining and learning from a single event, often
catastrophic. Using flowcharts and fishbone diagrams. Flow charts can also help the
team design new processes.
QSEN stands for - ✔️✔️-Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
QSEN and Systems thinking objective - ✔️✔️-To move away from blaming individuals
for adverse events and work to correct our systems and processes.
QSEN indicates that MSNs should promote systems that - ✔️✔️-reduce reliance on
memory to make care safer. Examples: Checklists, worksheets, standard order sets,
standardized timeliness, adding fields for documentation in records. These are
reminders or prompts.
Psychological Safety or Culture of Safety - ✔️✔️-By reducing the emphasis on blame
and shame, staff feel safe to report errors. Increased incident reports should result in
more opportunities for organization learning.
An increased number of incident reports do not mean increased number of incidences. -
✔️✔️-This may be an indicator of psychological safety.
Advanced Practice Role Key ideas: - ✔️✔️-Support engagement of team members:
Participate, Facilitate, Collaborate and Negotiate. Effective communication and
leadership. Conflict resolution, shared decision making with patients. Shared
governance with nurses and other staff. Patient centered care. Culture of safety and to
think big.
, Culture of safety - ✔️✔️-learn about human error and create better systems.
Think BIG - ✔️✔️-process from start to finish. Not just your part. Improving care for all,
not just those in your department or hospital.
Essentials of Masters Ed in Nursing - ✔️✔️-Key Standard. Used to design MSN
curriculum. Used by university surveyors to determine whether accreditation standards
have been met.
MSN - ✔️✔️-Should have a deeper understanding of nursing or an expanded range of
nursing knowledge compared to BSN or associate prepared nurses.
Inter-Professional Collaboration - ✔️✔️-Health professionals work together in small
groups providing care. Examples: oncology, OR, end of life or primary care.
Inter-Professional Collaboration team - ✔️✔️-Although most patient care is done by the
team of people, training is often focused on individual responsibilities and does not
prepare for the complex settings. Team members are education in their health
profession solo and likely have little knowledge of their team members' skill sets.
Act of collaboration in an inter-professional team might be best exemplified by - ✔️✔️-
defining patient goals individually and then coming together as a team to select the
most important ones. Care is too complex today for a single discipline to direct all
caregivers represented on the team.
The advanced nursing role centers on acting with high level of integrity by - ✔️✔️-
giving power and respect to each team member's voice. Integrating individual
differences. Resolving competing interests in order to safeguard each person's
contribution.
