NE 104 EXAM I QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST UPDATE
What is QSEN
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses. The QSEN institute established standard
competencies in knowledge, skills, and attitude (KSA) for the preparation of future
nurses. The goal of QSEN is to prepare nurses so that they can continuously improve
the quality and safety of the health care systems within which they work.
Competencies are:
Patient-Centered Care: Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and
full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the
patient's preferences, values, and needs.
Teamwork and Collaboration: Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional
teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to
achieve quality patient care.
Evidence-based Practice: Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and
patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
Quality Improvement: Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use
,improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality
and safety of health care systems.
Safety: Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system
effectiveness and individual performance.
Informatics: Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge,
migrate error, and support decision making.
Identify the three major components of the SWIC Nursing curriculum.
The Nursing Process, Basic Needs, & Health Continuum.
Define and identify SWIC's Basic Needs
Activity & Mobility, Comfort, Communication, Elimination, Love & Belonging, Nutrition,
Oxygen, Rest & Sleep, Safety, Self-awareness & Self-esteem, Sexuality.
Define health continuum
The degree of wellness or illness that the individual may experience at any given time.
Define health
a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence
of disease or infirmity.
Define illness
a state in which a person's physical, emotional, intellectual, social, developmental, or
spiritual functioning is diminished or impaired compared with his or her precious
condition.
Define High-Level Wellness
, Direction in progressing forward and upward towards a higher potential of functioning
health.
Define Holistic Health
Comprehensive view of the person as a biopsychosocial and spiritual being.
Identify internal and external variables affecting health placement on the health
continuum.
Internal Variables: Developmental Stage, Intellectual Background, perception/self
concept, & emotional/spiritual factors.
External Variables: Family practices, Socioeconomic factors, Cultural background.
Define critical thinking
the ability to think in a systematic and logical manner with openness to question and
reflect on the reasoning process.
Describe the three levels of critical thinking
Basic: A Nurse trusts the experts and thinks concretely based on the rules. Resulting
from limited nursing knowledge and experience, as well as inadequate critical thinking
experience.
Complex: The Nurse begins to express autonomy by analyzing data to determine the
best alternative. Resulting from an increase in nursing knowledge, experience, intuition,
and more flexible attitudes.
Commitment: The Nurse expects to make choices without help from others and fully
assumes responsibility for those choices. Resulting from an expert level of knowledge,
experience, developed intuition, and reflective, flexible attitude.
Relate scientific method to critical thinking
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST UPDATE
What is QSEN
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses. The QSEN institute established standard
competencies in knowledge, skills, and attitude (KSA) for the preparation of future
nurses. The goal of QSEN is to prepare nurses so that they can continuously improve
the quality and safety of the health care systems within which they work.
Competencies are:
Patient-Centered Care: Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and
full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the
patient's preferences, values, and needs.
Teamwork and Collaboration: Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional
teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to
achieve quality patient care.
Evidence-based Practice: Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and
patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
Quality Improvement: Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use
,improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality
and safety of health care systems.
Safety: Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system
effectiveness and individual performance.
Informatics: Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge,
migrate error, and support decision making.
Identify the three major components of the SWIC Nursing curriculum.
The Nursing Process, Basic Needs, & Health Continuum.
Define and identify SWIC's Basic Needs
Activity & Mobility, Comfort, Communication, Elimination, Love & Belonging, Nutrition,
Oxygen, Rest & Sleep, Safety, Self-awareness & Self-esteem, Sexuality.
Define health continuum
The degree of wellness or illness that the individual may experience at any given time.
Define health
a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence
of disease or infirmity.
Define illness
a state in which a person's physical, emotional, intellectual, social, developmental, or
spiritual functioning is diminished or impaired compared with his or her precious
condition.
Define High-Level Wellness
, Direction in progressing forward and upward towards a higher potential of functioning
health.
Define Holistic Health
Comprehensive view of the person as a biopsychosocial and spiritual being.
Identify internal and external variables affecting health placement on the health
continuum.
Internal Variables: Developmental Stage, Intellectual Background, perception/self
concept, & emotional/spiritual factors.
External Variables: Family practices, Socioeconomic factors, Cultural background.
Define critical thinking
the ability to think in a systematic and logical manner with openness to question and
reflect on the reasoning process.
Describe the three levels of critical thinking
Basic: A Nurse trusts the experts and thinks concretely based on the rules. Resulting
from limited nursing knowledge and experience, as well as inadequate critical thinking
experience.
Complex: The Nurse begins to express autonomy by analyzing data to determine the
best alternative. Resulting from an increase in nursing knowledge, experience, intuition,
and more flexible attitudes.
Commitment: The Nurse expects to make choices without help from others and fully
assumes responsibility for those choices. Resulting from an expert level of knowledge,
experience, developed intuition, and reflective, flexible attitude.
Relate scientific method to critical thinking
