NUR 444 CH 1 Exam Questions and Answers Fully Solved Latest Version

NUR 444 CH 1 Exam Questions and Answers Fully Solved Latest Version The Patient Safety Movement - Answers -Nurses at all levels are leaders in the patient safety movement. -Every nurse must be educated to •Deliver patient-centered care as a member of an interprofessional team. •Emphasize evidence-based practice, quality improvement approaches, informatics, and safety. -The Institute of Medicine (IOM) •Established in 1970 by the National Academies •Mission of NAM (formerly IOM): "To improve health for all by advancing science, accelerating health equity, and providing independent, authoritative, and trusted advice nationally and globally" (NAM, n.d.) •To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System (2000) - Answers •Began the patient safety movement, identifying medical errors as the leading cause of injury in the United States •Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century (2001) - Answers •Outlined six aims for health-care improvement: that health care should be safe, effective, patient centered, timely, efficient, and equitable •Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality (2003) - Answers •Identified five core competencies for all health-care professions •The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (2011) - Answers •Provided eight recommendations focused on "the critical intersection between the health needs of diverse populations across the lifespan the actions of the nursing workforce" (IOM, 2011, p. 4) Six Aims for Health Care in the 21st Century - Answers safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, equitable safe - Answers •Avoiding injuries to patients from the care that is intended to help them effective - Answers •Providing services based on scientific knowledge to all who could benefit and refraining from providing services to those not likely to benefit; avoiding overuse, underuse, and misuse of care patient-centered - Answers •Providing care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patients' preferences, needs, and values, and ensuring that patients' values guide all decisions timely - Answers •Reducing waits and sometimes harmful delays for both those who receive and those who give care efficient - Answers •Avoiding waste; in particular of equipment, supplies, ideas, and energy equitable - Answers •Providing care that does not vary in quality because of personal characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, geographic location, and socioeconomic status Ten Rules of Health-Care Delivery in the 21st Century - Answers •Care is based on a continuous healing relationship, rather than periodic individual face-to-face visits.