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The degree to which health care professionals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health care information and services necessary to make appropriate health care decisions.

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Health literacy

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What is the average adult reading level in America?

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8th grade

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Medical/health information literature should be written at no higher of a grade level than __ to __ grade

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6th to 8th grade reading level

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How consumers use health care resources and services and how patients interact with healthcare providers

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Resource utilizaiton

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What uses EMR technology to 1) improve quality/efficiency/safety, 2) reduce healthcare disparities, 3) engage patients and family members in course of care, 4) improve care coordination, and 5) maintain privacy and safety of PHI

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Meaningful use

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A management process of monitoring, evaluating, continuously reviewing, and improving both the quality of health care delivery and the health status of target populations.

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Quality Improvement

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An initiative aimed at providing future nurses with knowledge, skills, and attitude necessary to ensure continuous improvement in quality and safety of their respective healthcare systems.

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Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) Initiative

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What is the most common screening tool for depression?

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Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9)

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What is a self-administered screening tool that identifies whether a complete assessment for anxiety is indicated.

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder -7

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What is the self-report questionnaire designed to quickly assess wheter and alcohol or drug assessment is needed/

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CAGE-AID

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If there are more than ___ “yes” answers to CAGE-AID, this warrants a formal evaluation

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2

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Term that refers to treatments that are used along with, or in place of, conventional medicine

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Alternative/complementary therapies

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What type of medicine brings conventional and complementary approaches together in a coordinated way.

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Integrative medicine

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Specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information knowledge, and wisdom in nursing.

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Nursing informatics

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Comparison and measurement of a healthcare organization’s services against other national healthcare organizations.

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Benchmarking

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What are four core principles of Benchmarking?

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Maintaining quality
Improving customer satisfaction
Improving patient safety
Continuous improvement

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The process by which practicing RN systematically access, monitor, and make judgements about the quality of nursing care provided by peers as measured against professional standards of practice.

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Peer review

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Written statement of a patient’s intent regarding medical treatment

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Advance directive

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Type of advance directive that my (or may not) include a living will and/or specifications regarding durable POA in one or two separate documents.

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Healthcare directive

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Written compilation of statements in document format that specifies which life-prolonging measures one does and does not want to be taken if they become incapacitated

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Living will

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Establishes a voluntary reporting system to enhance the data available to assess and resolve patient safety and health care quality issues.

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The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act (PSQIA)

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This supersedes the right to confidentiality if a patient’s condition may endanger others.

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Duty to warn

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Damaging one’s reputation as a result of information being shared without the patient’s permission.

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Invasion of privacy

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What are the 2 goals of Healthy People 2020

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Increase quality and years of healthy life

Eliminate health disparities among Americans

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Require practitioners to report specific health-related information
Reporting statutes
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T/F: NP's are not legally required to report most cases of domestic violence
True
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Who sets the standards for reimbursement and cutting costs?
Medicare
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This type of Medicare provides limited prescription drug coverage with a monthly premium and copay
Medicare D
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This type of Medicare covers physician services, outpatient hospital services, laboratory and diagnostic procedures, medical equipment, and some home health-services
Medicare B
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What percent do NPs receive of physician reimbursment for services provided in collaboration with a physician
85%
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Medicare pays __% of the patients bill for physician services and the patient pays __%
80/20
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This type of Medicare is known as Medicare Advantage.
Medicare C. (A+B+C)
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Federally supported, state administered program for low-income families and individuals. Benefits vary from state to state.
Medicaid
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Involves a comprehensive and systematic approach to provided quality care with the purpose to mobilize, monitor and control resources
Case Management
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A management process of monitoring, evaluating, continuous review, and improving the quality in providing health care.
Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement/Continuous Process Improvement
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A tool for identifying prevention strategies to ensure safety, a process that is part of the effort to build a culture of safety and move beyond the culture of blame.
Root Cause Analysis
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Unexpected occurrences involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk therof
Sentinel Events
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Based on legal allowances in each state, according to and delineated by individual state nurse practice acts.
Scope of Practice
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Delineated by the American Nurses Association as authoritative statements by which to measure quality of practice, service, or education.
Standards of Advance Practice
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Refers to interventions that are unlikely to produce any significant benefit for the patient. "Does the intervention have any reasonable prospect of helping this patient?"
Medical Futility
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A state in which a patient is able to make personal decisions about his/her care
Competence
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A state indicating that a patient has received adequate instruction or information regarding aspects of care to make a prudent, personal choice regarding such treatment.
Informed consent
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The duty to do no harm
Nonmaleficence
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The right act is the one that produces the greatest good for the greatest number
Utilitarianism
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The duty to prevent harm and promote good
Beneficence
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The duty to be fair
Justice
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The duty to be faithful
Fidelity
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The duty to be truthful
Veracity
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The duty to respect an individual's thoughts and actions
Autonomy
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What are the four distinct roles for the nurse practitioner?
Clinician Consultant/collaborator Educator Researcher
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Study that examines a population with a very similar attribute but differ in one specific variable designed to find relationships between variables at specific point in time; "surveys"
Cross-sectional
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Research study that compares a particular outcome in groups of individuals whoa re alike in many ways but differ by a certain characteristic
Cohort study
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Study that involves taking multiple measures of a group/population over an extended period of time to find relationships between variables.
Longitudinal studies
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An interval, with limits at either end, with a specified probability of including the parameter being estimated.
Confidence interval
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Indicates the average amount of deviation of values from the mean
Standard deviation
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The probability level of which the results of statistical analyses are judged to indicate a statistically significant difference between groups.
Level of significance
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The consistency of a measurement, or the degree tow hich an instrument measures the same way over time with the same subjects
Reliability
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The legal responsibility that a nurse practitioner has for actions that fail to meet the standard of care, resulting in actual or potential harm to a patient
Liability
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Failure of an individual to do what a reasonable person would do, resulting in injury to the patient.
Negligence
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Failure of a professional to render services with the degree of care, diligence, and precaution that another member of the same profession under similar circumstances would render to prevent injury to someone.
Malpractice
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An intentional act by one person that creates an apprehension in another of an imminent harmful or offensive contact
Assault
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An illegal, willful, angry, violent, or negligent striking of a person, his clothes, or anything with which he is in contact
Battery
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A communication that causes someone to suffer a damage reputation
Defamation
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What protects health care providers from law suits who aid at the scene of an accident and render reasonable emergency care within the NP's scope of practice.
Good Samaritan Statutes
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True positives; the degree to which those who have a disease screen/test positive
Sensitivity
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True negatives; the degree to which those who do not have a disease screen/test negative
Specificity
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The frequency with which a disease or disorder appears
Incidence
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The proportion of a population that is affected by a disease/disorder
Prevalence
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Includes measures to promote health prior to the onset of any recognizable problems
Primary prevention
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Example of primary prevention:
healthy diet, exercising
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Focuses on early identification and treatment of existing problems
Secondary prevention
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Examples of secondary prevention
Pap smear screening, prostate CA screening
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Includes rehabilitation and RESTORATION of health (cardiac rehab s/p MI)
Tertiary prevention
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Hispanics believe the mother or grandmother, especially from the husband, is the primary decision maker
True
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Balance of ___/____ is essential for Hispanic culture
Hot/Cold
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Illness is treated with the_____ type of medicine in the Hispanic culture
Opposite | i.e. hot for cold, and cold for hot
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In the Asian culture, eye contact may be a sign of ______
disrespect
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Japanese females may be opposed to talking to medical providers of the _______ sex
opposite
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What culture believes health is a result of forces that rule the world, Yin (cold) and Yang (hot)
Chinese
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Cold illnesses (diarrhea) are treated with ___ herbs and food [Chinese]
hot
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Generally viewed as intolerant to pain while other cultures accept pain as part of life
Caucasians

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