NU 226 Exam 1 – Nursing Leadership & Management Practice Questions and
Study Guide
Nursing Practice Guided By: - ANS ✔✔ANA code of ethics
ANA standards
EBP and critical thinking skills
Legality - scope of practice for specific positions.
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) - ANS ✔✔-pt. centered care
-teamwork/collaboration
-EBP
-quality improvement
-safety
-informatics
National Pt Safety Goals (NPSG) - ANS ✔✔1. ID pt's correctly - 2 identifiers: Name & DOB.
2. Improve staff communication.
3. Safe Med Use - Know your pt's meds especially for anticoagulants or other meds w/ potential
serious side FX or complications.
4. Safe alarm use - heard & responded to.
5. Prevent infections! - Hand hygiene and procedures to prevent HAI's.
6. ID pt safety risks - such as suicide or self-harm, as well as falls.
7. Prevent surgical mistakes - correct pt, procedure, and pause before surgery starts.
American Nursing Association (ANA) definition of nursing: - ANS ✔✔"The protection,
promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation
of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and
,advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations" (ANA,
2015c).
ANA Social Context of nursing: - ANS ✔✔The knowledge base for nursing practice, the scope of
nursing practice, standards of professional nursing practice, and the regulation of professional
nursing in its Nursing's Social Policy Statement (2010).
Four Broad Aims of Nursing: - ANS ✔✔1. Promote Health
2. Prevent Illness
3. Restore Health
4. Facilitate coping w/ disability or death
Four Blended Competencies of Nursing - ANS ✔✔1. Cognitive
2. Technical
3. Interpersonal
4. Ethical/Legal
Healthy People 2020 - ANS ✔✔Aim is to PROMOTE HEALTH by/with 4 overarching goals:
1. Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, injury, and premature death.
2. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
3. Create social and physical envi's that promote good health for all.
4. Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages.
Nursing as a profession - ANS ✔✔Has a defined criteria:
- well-defined body of specific and unique knowledge
- strong service orientation
- recognized authority by a professional group
, - code of ethics
- professional organization that sets standards
- ongoing research
- autonomy and self-regulation
ANA Standards of Nursing Practice - ANS ✔✔Standards of Practice:
1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Outcome(s) Identification
4. Planning
5. Implementation
- 5a. Coordination of Care
- 5b. Health Teaching & Promotion
6. Evaluation
ANA Standards of Nursing Professional Performance - ANS ✔✔7. Ethics
8. Culturally Congruent Practice
9. Communication
10. Collaboration
11. Leadership
12. Education
13. EBP
14. Quality of Practice
15. Professional Practice Evaluation
16. Resource Utilization
17. Environmental Health
Study Guide
Nursing Practice Guided By: - ANS ✔✔ANA code of ethics
ANA standards
EBP and critical thinking skills
Legality - scope of practice for specific positions.
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) - ANS ✔✔-pt. centered care
-teamwork/collaboration
-EBP
-quality improvement
-safety
-informatics
National Pt Safety Goals (NPSG) - ANS ✔✔1. ID pt's correctly - 2 identifiers: Name & DOB.
2. Improve staff communication.
3. Safe Med Use - Know your pt's meds especially for anticoagulants or other meds w/ potential
serious side FX or complications.
4. Safe alarm use - heard & responded to.
5. Prevent infections! - Hand hygiene and procedures to prevent HAI's.
6. ID pt safety risks - such as suicide or self-harm, as well as falls.
7. Prevent surgical mistakes - correct pt, procedure, and pause before surgery starts.
American Nursing Association (ANA) definition of nursing: - ANS ✔✔"The protection,
promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation
of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and
,advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations" (ANA,
2015c).
ANA Social Context of nursing: - ANS ✔✔The knowledge base for nursing practice, the scope of
nursing practice, standards of professional nursing practice, and the regulation of professional
nursing in its Nursing's Social Policy Statement (2010).
Four Broad Aims of Nursing: - ANS ✔✔1. Promote Health
2. Prevent Illness
3. Restore Health
4. Facilitate coping w/ disability or death
Four Blended Competencies of Nursing - ANS ✔✔1. Cognitive
2. Technical
3. Interpersonal
4. Ethical/Legal
Healthy People 2020 - ANS ✔✔Aim is to PROMOTE HEALTH by/with 4 overarching goals:
1. Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, injury, and premature death.
2. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
3. Create social and physical envi's that promote good health for all.
4. Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages.
Nursing as a profession - ANS ✔✔Has a defined criteria:
- well-defined body of specific and unique knowledge
- strong service orientation
- recognized authority by a professional group
, - code of ethics
- professional organization that sets standards
- ongoing research
- autonomy and self-regulation
ANA Standards of Nursing Practice - ANS ✔✔Standards of Practice:
1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Outcome(s) Identification
4. Planning
5. Implementation
- 5a. Coordination of Care
- 5b. Health Teaching & Promotion
6. Evaluation
ANA Standards of Nursing Professional Performance - ANS ✔✔7. Ethics
8. Culturally Congruent Practice
9. Communication
10. Collaboration
11. Leadership
12. Education
13. EBP
14. Quality of Practice
15. Professional Practice Evaluation
16. Resource Utilization
17. Environmental Health
