Core Competencies

Question 1

The nurse educator is aware that which of the following are the skills identified by the IOM for the competency of Patient-Centered Care? Select all that apply.

a. Share power and responsibility with patients and caregivers.
b. Take into account patients’ individuality, emotional needs, values, and life issues.
c. Ensure that accurate and timely information reaches those who need it at the appropriate time.
d. Formulate clear clinical questions.
e. Enhance prevention and health promotion.

Answer 1

A, B, E
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C. Ensuring that timely and appropriate information reaches those who need it at the appropriate time is a skill required of teamwork and collaboration.
D. Formulating clear clinical questions is a skill required of evidence-based practice.

Question 2

A nurse leader would refer to what IOM report when expecting a healthcare organization to allow nurses to practice to the full extent of their education?

a. To Err is Human: building a safer health system
b. The Brown Report
c. Unequal treatment: confronting racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare
d. The Future of Nursing: Leading change, advancing health

Answer 2

D
The Future of Nursing: Leading change, advancing health
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A. To Err is Human focuses on quality and safety
B. The Brown Report reveals that nurses should be educated in academic rather than hospital settings.
C. The Future of Nursing: Leading change, advancing health focuses on justice not education

Question 3

According to the IOM which profession has been directly linked to patient safety?

a. Nurses
b. Physicians
c. Social Workers
d. Physical therapists

Answer 3

A
Nurses
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B, C, D, Although all health-care professionals have an obligation to provide safe and quality care, nurses have been directly linked to ensuring patient safety and quality care outcomes.

Question 4

A nurse educator is reviewing IOM reports with senior nursing students in Leadership and Management. The students realize this is an old term for what current organization?

a. The National Institute of Health
b. The National Academy of Medicine
c. The Food and Drug Administration
d. The Institute for Medical Research

Answer 4

B
The National Academy of Medicine
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C. The FDA insures the public safety of food and drugs
D. The Institute for Medical Research is a research organization.

Question 5

What quality would the nurse manager strive to achieve in ensuring a culture of safety on the maternal-child unit?

a. Fairness
b. Preoccupation with success
c. Transparency
d. Non-support of collaboration

Answer 5

C
Transparency
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A, B, D, Do not contribute to a culture of safety

Question 6

The nurse manager is utilizing the QSEN competencies to ensure quality care for patients on a busy surgical unit. Which element of the QSEN competency of teamwork and collaboration is essential to ensure implementation?

a. Time management
b. Assessment of group dynamics
c. Conflict resolution
d. Care coordination

Answer 6

D
Care Coordination
Feedback
A Time management is an important component of teamwork and collaboration but is not essential to the implementation of this competency.
B The assessment of the group dynamics is also an important component of teamwork and collaboration, but it is not essential to its implementation. Group dynamics may make it more difficult, but it will not prevent its implementation.
C Conflict resolution is an element of teamwork and collaboration, but it will not prevent the implementation of this competency.