TEST BANK For Nursing Leadership, Management, and
Professional Practice for the LPN/LVN, 7th Edition by
Tamara R. Dahlkemper
Define the following Concepts?
Assessment - ANSWER:The systematic and continuous collection organization
validation and documentation of data; the first step of the nursing process.
Barcoding System - ANSWER:Encodes data electronically into a series of bars and
spaces, which are scanned by lasers into a computer to identify the object being
labeled
Benchmarking - ANSWER:process of measuring and comparing the results of
processes with those of the best performers
Civil Law - ANSWER:Laws that affect the legal rights of private persons or
corporations
Criminal Law - ANSWER:Offense against the general public; affects welfare of society
as a whole
Data Collection - ANSWER:gathering information through interviewing, observing,
and inspecting
Documentation - ANSWER:a recording, in written or electronic form, containing
original official, or legal information
Evaluation - ANSWER:Measuring the degree to which goals/outcomes have been
achieved and identifying factors that positively or negatively influence goal
achievement
evidence-based practice - ANSWER:the conscientious use of current best evidence in
making decisions about patient care; it de-emphasizes practice based on tradition
and rituals
Expert Testimony - ANSWER:Witness from the same professional specialty who
examine evidence, reviews pertinent literature, gives depositions and potentially
testifies in court. An expert nurse gives advice and consultation throughout the
litigation process.
Goal - ANSWER:a broad statement of a desire outcome
Implementation - ANSWER:Carrying out planned nursing interventions; The fifth step
of the nursing process
, Liable - ANSWER:Legally responsible for damages, answerable
Malpractice - ANSWER:Negligent conduct of a professional person.
Negligence - ANSWER:Not acting in a reasonable or prudent manner
Nursing diagnosis - ANSWER:a clinical judgement about actual or potential individual
family, or community experiences/responses to health problems; identification of
nursing diagnoses is the second step of the nursing process
Nursing Standard - ANSWER:specific statement about the quality of a facet of
nursing care
Outcome Standard - ANSWER:result of the performance or nonperformance of a
function or processes
Performance improvement PI - ANSWER:The continuous adaptation of a healthcare
organization's functions and processes of health- care organization to increase the
probability of achieving desired outcomes and to better meet the needs of patients
and other users of services
Planning - ANSWER:Determining how to prevent, reduce, or resolve identified
patient problems; how to support client strengths; and how to implement nursing
interventions in an organized individualized and goal directed manner, the fourth
step of the nursing process
Process Standards - ANSWER:A goal-directed, interrelated series of actions, events,
mechanisms or steps. It includes a patients activities in seeking care, data collection,
and a practitioners activities in making a nursing diagnosis.
Quality Assessment QA - ANSWER:Process including data collection and data analysis
in evaluating a problem
Quality Improvement QI - ANSWER:builds on the data identified in quality
assessment to identify action steps, including monitoring, evaluating, and problem
solving
Risk Management - ANSWER:Process that centers on identification analysis
treatment and evaluation of real and potential hazards
Standard of Care - ANSWER:Focuses on the recipient of care consistent with
minimum safe professional conduct and describes outcomes of care that patients
can expect to receive
Standards of nursing practice - ANSWER:focuses on the provider and defines
competent care along with the activities and behavior needed to achieve positive
patient outcomes
Professional Practice for the LPN/LVN, 7th Edition by
Tamara R. Dahlkemper
Define the following Concepts?
Assessment - ANSWER:The systematic and continuous collection organization
validation and documentation of data; the first step of the nursing process.
Barcoding System - ANSWER:Encodes data electronically into a series of bars and
spaces, which are scanned by lasers into a computer to identify the object being
labeled
Benchmarking - ANSWER:process of measuring and comparing the results of
processes with those of the best performers
Civil Law - ANSWER:Laws that affect the legal rights of private persons or
corporations
Criminal Law - ANSWER:Offense against the general public; affects welfare of society
as a whole
Data Collection - ANSWER:gathering information through interviewing, observing,
and inspecting
Documentation - ANSWER:a recording, in written or electronic form, containing
original official, or legal information
Evaluation - ANSWER:Measuring the degree to which goals/outcomes have been
achieved and identifying factors that positively or negatively influence goal
achievement
evidence-based practice - ANSWER:the conscientious use of current best evidence in
making decisions about patient care; it de-emphasizes practice based on tradition
and rituals
Expert Testimony - ANSWER:Witness from the same professional specialty who
examine evidence, reviews pertinent literature, gives depositions and potentially
testifies in court. An expert nurse gives advice and consultation throughout the
litigation process.
Goal - ANSWER:a broad statement of a desire outcome
Implementation - ANSWER:Carrying out planned nursing interventions; The fifth step
of the nursing process
, Liable - ANSWER:Legally responsible for damages, answerable
Malpractice - ANSWER:Negligent conduct of a professional person.
Negligence - ANSWER:Not acting in a reasonable or prudent manner
Nursing diagnosis - ANSWER:a clinical judgement about actual or potential individual
family, or community experiences/responses to health problems; identification of
nursing diagnoses is the second step of the nursing process
Nursing Standard - ANSWER:specific statement about the quality of a facet of
nursing care
Outcome Standard - ANSWER:result of the performance or nonperformance of a
function or processes
Performance improvement PI - ANSWER:The continuous adaptation of a healthcare
organization's functions and processes of health- care organization to increase the
probability of achieving desired outcomes and to better meet the needs of patients
and other users of services
Planning - ANSWER:Determining how to prevent, reduce, or resolve identified
patient problems; how to support client strengths; and how to implement nursing
interventions in an organized individualized and goal directed manner, the fourth
step of the nursing process
Process Standards - ANSWER:A goal-directed, interrelated series of actions, events,
mechanisms or steps. It includes a patients activities in seeking care, data collection,
and a practitioners activities in making a nursing diagnosis.
Quality Assessment QA - ANSWER:Process including data collection and data analysis
in evaluating a problem
Quality Improvement QI - ANSWER:builds on the data identified in quality
assessment to identify action steps, including monitoring, evaluating, and problem
solving
Risk Management - ANSWER:Process that centers on identification analysis
treatment and evaluation of real and potential hazards
Standard of Care - ANSWER:Focuses on the recipient of care consistent with
minimum safe professional conduct and describes outcomes of care that patients
can expect to receive
Standards of nursing practice - ANSWER:focuses on the provider and defines
competent care along with the activities and behavior needed to achieve positive
patient outcomes
