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Lecture 2 Flashcards

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what are the traditional levels of health care?

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  • Preventative
  • Primary
  • Secondary
  • Tertiary
  • Restorative
  • Continuing health care
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what does preventative care focus on?

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reducing and controlling the risk factors of disease

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what does primary care focus on?

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improved health outcomes for an entire population

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primary health care requires collaboration among who?

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health professionals, health care leaders, and community members

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what are healthcare programs designed to do?

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reduce the incidence of disease

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what are some issues in health care delivery for nurses?

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  • health care costs
  • quality patient satisfaction
  • nursing shortage
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what are four challenges facing nursing?

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  • aging baby boomer generation
  • shortage and uneven distribution of physicians
  • rate of nurse retirement
  • uncertainty of health care reform
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which settings provide restorative care?

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  • home care
  • rehabilitation clinics
  • extended care facilities
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which settings provide continuing care?

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  • nursing centers or facilities
  • assisted living
  • adult day care
  • palliative and hospice care
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what are the therapeutic benefits of listening to patients?

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  • creates trust
  • opens lines of communication
  • creates mutual relationship
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what are the benefits of evidence-based care?

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  • improves quality, safety, and patient outcomes
  • increases nurse satisfaction
  • reduces cost
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what are sources of evidence for evidence based practice (EBP)?

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  • textbooks, articles from nursing, and health care literature
  • quality improvement and risk management data
  • retrospective or concurrent chart reviews
  • clinicians’ experience
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EBP, research, and quality improvement are closely related, but they are separate processes: Describe the EBP process

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Use of information from research and other sources to determine safe and effective nursing care with the goal of improving patient care and outcomes

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EBP, research, and quality improvement are closely related, but they are separate processes: Describe the research process

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systematic inquiry answers questions, solves problems, and contributes to generalized knowledge base of nursing; may or may not improve patient care

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EBP, research, and quality improvement are closely related, but they are separate processes: describe the QI process

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improves local work processes to improve patient outcomes and health system efficiency; results usually not generalizable

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how do you, as a nurse, cultivate a spirit of inquiry?

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  • question what does not make sense and what needs to be clarified
  • gain evidence-based practice knowledge
  • be committed to providing the best care possible
  • use problem and knowledge-focused triggers
  • consider data gathered from a health care setting to examine clinical trends
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how do you, as a nurse, evaluate the evidence-based practice decision or change?

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  • after applying evidence, evaluate the outcome
  • never implement a practice change without evaluating it effects
    unexpected events or results may occur
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when evaluating EBP change, what should you determine?

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  • was the change effective?
  • are modifications needed?
  • should the change be discontinued?
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What are the components of the nursing research process?

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  • Assessment - identify area of interest or clinical problem
  • Diagnosis - develop research question(s)/hypothesis
  • Planning - determine how the study will be conducted
  • Implementation - conduct the study
  • Evaluation - analyze the results of the study and use the findings
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what are the traditional nursing care delivery method models?

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  • team nursing
  • primary nursing
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what are todays nursing care delivery method models?

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  • patient-centered care
  • total patient care
  • case management
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What are the leadership skills nursing students need?

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  • clinical coordination
  • good clinical judgement
  • strong priority setting
  • organization skills
  • appropriate use of resources
  • good time management
  • continual evaluation
  • effective team communication
  • appropriate delegation
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what are the five rights of delegation?

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  • right task
  • right circumstance
  • right person
  • right direction
  • right supervision
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what are steps to effective delegation?

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  • assess the knowledge and skills of the delegatees
  • match the tasks to the delegatees skills
  • communicate clearly : task, outcome, time
  • listen attentively
  • provide feedback
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what is caring?

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a universal phenomenon that influences the way we think, feel, and behave

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since when have nurses studied caring?

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since florence nightingale

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what is at the heart of a nurses ability to work with all patients in a respectful and therapeutic way?

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caring

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theoretical views on caring
describe caring is primary

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  • caring determines what matters to a person
  • caring helps you provide patient-centered care
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** theoretical views on caring**
describe Leininger’s Transcultural Caring

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  • caring is an essential human need
  • caring helps an individual or group improve a human condition
  • caring helps protect, develop, nurture, and sustain people
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** theoretical views on caring**
describe Watson’s Transpersonal Caring

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  • promotes healing and wholeness
  • rejects the disease orientation to health care
  • places care before cure
  • emphasizes the nurse-patient relationship
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** theoretical views on caring**
describe Swanson’s Theory of Caring

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  • defines caring as a nurturing way of relating to an individual
  • states that caring is a central nursing phenomenon but is not necessarily unique to nursing practice
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what are Watson’s 10 Carative Factors?

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  1. Forming a human-altruistic value system
  2. instilling faith/hope
  3. cultivating a sensitivity to oneself and to others
  4. Developing a helping, trusting, human caring relationship
  5. Promoting and expressing positive and negative feelings (support and accept your patients feelings)
  6. using creative problem-solving, caring processes
  7. Promoting transpersonal teaching/ learning/ learn together while educating the patient to acquire self-care skills
  8. providing for a supportive, protective, and/or corrective mental, physical, societal, and spiritual
  9. meeting human needs
  10. allowing for existential-phenomenonological-spiritual forces
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what is the patient perspective of caring?

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patients value the affective dimension of nursing care

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what is the effective dimension of nursing care?

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  • connecting with patients and their families
  • being present
  • respecting values, beliefs, and health care choices
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what is an ethic of care?

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  • in any patient encounter, a nurse needs to know what behavior is ethically appropriate
  • an ethic of care is unique, so professional nurses do not make professional decisions based solely on intellectual or analytical principles
  • an ethic of care places caring at the center of decision making
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what does providing presence to a patient mean?

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  • being with
  • eye contact
  • body language
  • tone of voice
  • listening
  • positive and encouraging attitude
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what does the caring behavior of touch accomplish?

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  • provides comfort
  • creates a connection
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what does the caring behavior of listening accomplish?

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  • creates trust
  • opens lines of communication
  • creates a mutual relationship
39
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what kinds of touch relate to nursing?

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  • non-contact touch
  • contact touch
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what kinds of contact touch are there?

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  • task oriented touch
  • caring touch
  • protective touch
41
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describe the caring behavior “knowing the patient”

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  • develops over time
  • the core process of clinical decision making
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knowing the patient
aspects of knowing include:

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  • responses to therapy, routines, and habits
  • coping resources
  • physical capacities and endurance
43
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what are the challenges of caring?

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  • task oriented biomedical model
  • institutional demands
  • time constraints
  • reliance on technology, cost-effective strategies, and standardized work processes
44
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if health care is to make a positive difference in patients’ lives, what must happen?

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health care must become more holistic and humanistic

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