NURS 260 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
Rights of delegation
Task, circumstances, person, directions, and supervision
The Right task:
The task is appropriate to the situation
The Right Circumstances:
The circumstances are appropriate and resources are available
The Right Person:
The delegate is competent for this situation
The Right Directions:
The expectations are clear, concise, and include both limits and expectations
The Right Supervision:
Appropriate monitoring, evaluation, intervention as needed, and feedback are provided
Nurse of the future core competencies (What does the nurse of the forties need to
have on board):
1. Patient-centered care
2. Professionalism
3. Leadership
4. Systems-based practice
5. Informatics and technology
,6. Communication
7. Teamwork and collaboration
8. Safety
9. Quality improvement
10. Evidence-based practice
Patient-centered care:
The Nurse of the Future will provide holistic care that recognizes an individual's
preferences, values, and needs and respects the patient or designee as a full partner in
providing compassionate, coordinated, age, and culturally appropriate, safe and
effective care.
Professionalism:
The Nurse of the Future will demonstrate accountability for the delivery of standards-
based nursing care that is consistent with moral, altruistic, legal, ethical, regulatory, and
humanistic principles
Leadership:
The Nurse of the Future will influence the behavior of individuals or groups of individuals
within their environment in a way that will facilitate the establishment and
acquisition/achievement of shared goals.
Systems-based practice:
The Nurse of the Future will demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the
larger context of the health care system, and will demonstrate the ability to effectively
call on microsystem resources to provide care that is of optimal quality and value.
Informatics and technology:
,The Nurse of the Future will use information and technology to communicate, manage,
knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making
Communication:
The Nurse of the Future will interact effectively with patients, families, and colleagues,
fostering mutual respect and shared decision making to enhance patient satisfaction
and health outcomes
Teamwork and collaboration:
The Nurse of the Future will function effectively within nursing and interdisciplinary
teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, shared decision making, team
learning, and development
Safety:
The Nurse of the Future will minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through
both system effectiveness and individual performance
Quality Improvement:
The Nurse of the Future uses data to monitor the outcomes of care processes, and
uses improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the
quality and safety of health care systems
Evidence-based practice:
The Nurse of the Future will identify, evaluate, and use the best current evidence
coupled with clinical expertise and consideration of patients' preferences, experience
and values to make practice decisions
"Sister" Calista Roy:
, Founder of the Adaptation theory, Five essential elements: patency, goal of nursing,
health-being and becoming a whole person, environment, direction of nursing
activities... The person is an open adaptive system with input (stimuli) who adapts by
processes or control mechanisms (throughout)
Calista Roy
Founder of the adaptation theory, she was a nurse from Australia. She was born in the
US but moved as a young child and became a nurse there and they call nurses sisters
there.
Calista Roy:
-Presents the person as an adaptive system in constant interaction with the internal and
external environments (62)
-Adaptation leads to optimum health and well-being, quality of life, and death with
dignity
Calista Roy:
6 Step Nursing Process:
-Assessing behaviors manifested from the 4 adaptive modes
-Assessing and categorizing stimuli
-Making a nursing diagnosis
-Setting goals to promote adaptation
-Implementing interventions aimed at managing stimuli to promote adaptation
-Evaluating achievement of adaptive goals
Florence Nightingale
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
Rights of delegation
Task, circumstances, person, directions, and supervision
The Right task:
The task is appropriate to the situation
The Right Circumstances:
The circumstances are appropriate and resources are available
The Right Person:
The delegate is competent for this situation
The Right Directions:
The expectations are clear, concise, and include both limits and expectations
The Right Supervision:
Appropriate monitoring, evaluation, intervention as needed, and feedback are provided
Nurse of the future core competencies (What does the nurse of the forties need to
have on board):
1. Patient-centered care
2. Professionalism
3. Leadership
4. Systems-based practice
5. Informatics and technology
,6. Communication
7. Teamwork and collaboration
8. Safety
9. Quality improvement
10. Evidence-based practice
Patient-centered care:
The Nurse of the Future will provide holistic care that recognizes an individual's
preferences, values, and needs and respects the patient or designee as a full partner in
providing compassionate, coordinated, age, and culturally appropriate, safe and
effective care.
Professionalism:
The Nurse of the Future will demonstrate accountability for the delivery of standards-
based nursing care that is consistent with moral, altruistic, legal, ethical, regulatory, and
humanistic principles
Leadership:
The Nurse of the Future will influence the behavior of individuals or groups of individuals
within their environment in a way that will facilitate the establishment and
acquisition/achievement of shared goals.
Systems-based practice:
The Nurse of the Future will demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the
larger context of the health care system, and will demonstrate the ability to effectively
call on microsystem resources to provide care that is of optimal quality and value.
Informatics and technology:
,The Nurse of the Future will use information and technology to communicate, manage,
knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making
Communication:
The Nurse of the Future will interact effectively with patients, families, and colleagues,
fostering mutual respect and shared decision making to enhance patient satisfaction
and health outcomes
Teamwork and collaboration:
The Nurse of the Future will function effectively within nursing and interdisciplinary
teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, shared decision making, team
learning, and development
Safety:
The Nurse of the Future will minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through
both system effectiveness and individual performance
Quality Improvement:
The Nurse of the Future uses data to monitor the outcomes of care processes, and
uses improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the
quality and safety of health care systems
Evidence-based practice:
The Nurse of the Future will identify, evaluate, and use the best current evidence
coupled with clinical expertise and consideration of patients' preferences, experience
and values to make practice decisions
"Sister" Calista Roy:
, Founder of the Adaptation theory, Five essential elements: patency, goal of nursing,
health-being and becoming a whole person, environment, direction of nursing
activities... The person is an open adaptive system with input (stimuli) who adapts by
processes or control mechanisms (throughout)
Calista Roy
Founder of the adaptation theory, she was a nurse from Australia. She was born in the
US but moved as a young child and became a nurse there and they call nurses sisters
there.
Calista Roy:
-Presents the person as an adaptive system in constant interaction with the internal and
external environments (62)
-Adaptation leads to optimum health and well-being, quality of life, and death with
dignity
Calista Roy:
6 Step Nursing Process:
-Assessing behaviors manifested from the 4 adaptive modes
-Assessing and categorizing stimuli
-Making a nursing diagnosis
-Setting goals to promote adaptation
-Implementing interventions aimed at managing stimuli to promote adaptation
-Evaluating achievement of adaptive goals
Florence Nightingale
