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What grade level should all health care material be written at

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No higher than 6th to 8th grade

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Who lays out accreditation guidelines

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Joint commission

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Who clays out National Patient SAfety Goals and areas of concern for health care professionals in accredited institutions

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Joint Comission

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What are institutional Bylaws

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Rules laid out by the institution that may provide further qualifications and restrictions on the role of healthcare staff

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What pain assessment tool is best for nonverbal or foreign speaking patients

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Wan baker FACES scale

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Explain CPOT

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Critical Care Pain Observation Tool
Facial expressions, body movements, muscle tension, compliance to vent
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Explain CAM ICU

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Confusion assessment
Mental Status change, inattention, disorganized thinking, altered LOC
Preformed daily

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Explain the Katz index of ADLs

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Assess the progression of an illness and need for care
Assess Bathing, dressing, toileting, transferring, continence, and feeding

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Explain the Get up and GO test

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Fall risk measurement
1-5 5being severely abnormal
>3 indicates a risk for falls

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Absolute contraindication to balloon pump

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AI

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Who is Tai Chi particularity useful for

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Parkinson’s

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Does healing touch involve touching the patient

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No

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Differentiate the beginning, experienced, and specialist in nursing informatics

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Beginner: Computer literacy, information management, ability to use patient care tech
Experienced: Skilled in information managment and new trends in specific area of practice
Specialist: Advanced information preparation, assist other nurses, conduct research and theory development

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What is Benchmarking and its four core principals, benefits, and examples

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Comparison and measurement of a healthcare organizations services against other health care agencies
Benefits: Share best practices, understand where you rank
Principals: maintain quality, customer satisfaction, safety, improvement

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What is required for magnet status

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A formalized systemic peer review nursing practice

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Explain the FIFE model

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Feelings
Ideas
Functioning
Expectations
A tool to improve patient and NP communication

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Advanced directive

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Written statement of a patients intent regarding medical treatment

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Patient Self Determination Act

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Requires all patients entering a hospital to be advised of their right to execute an advanced directive

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Healthcare Directive

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Type of advanced directive that may include a living will or specify a durable power of attorney

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Living will

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Compilation of statements that specify which life prolonging measures one does or does not want if he or she becomes incapacitated

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Durable power of attorney

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Also called a health care proxy
Responsible for articulating the patients advanced directive

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What came out of title I HIPPA

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Health insurance coverage for workers and families when they change jobs (COBRA) Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act

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What came out of Title II of HIPPA

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Administrative simplification provisions and confidentiality

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Who is allowed to view the patient health record

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With a patients family, friends, relatives, or others that the PATIENT IDENTIFIES as being involved with their healthcare or billing

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Duty to Warn
Supersedes right of confidentiality if a patients condition may harm themselves or others
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When initiating change where is it best to start
Local then progress outward
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What is treated first medical or psych conditions
Medical
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What is the strongest method to evaluate teaching
Return demonstration
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What is a tertiary facility
Full range of services
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What are the 3 Le Fort skull fractures
1: floating palate 2: Floating maxilla 3: Floating face
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What is the most powerful data collected from a patient.
Subjective
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What are the two main goals of Health People 2030
Increase quality and years of life Eliminate health disparities
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What are the 6 mandated reporting diagnoses
Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, Syphilis, HIV, TB, Covid-19 b
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The American Nurses Association Nursing: A social policy statement
Described collaboration where everyone shares power, goals, responsibilities
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Social Services vs Psych services
Psych is mental health diagnosis and management Social: All social needs
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PT vs OT
PT strength OT Speech and fine motor skills
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Palliative care
Improve quality of life in those facing life threatening illness palliative care can coincide with treatment
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Who sets the standard for reimbursement and cutting costs
Medicare
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Differentiate between Problem focused, expanded problem focused, detailed, and comprehensive physical exam
Problem focused: exam affected site only Expanded problem focused: exam of faceted site and other related body systems Detailed: an extended exam of the affected site or organs and other related organs Comprehensive: Everything
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Differentiate Medicare A, B, C, and D
A: Inpatient, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice B: NP services, outpatient, patient has copay C: A and B can receive all care through one the the provider organizations D: Drugs, patient has copay
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How much does Medicare reimburse the NP
85% of physician fee
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What is incident to billing
Allows the practice to be reimbursed 100%. Can be billed under physician provider number. Not allowed in hospital setting
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Who is Medicaid for
Low income families and individuals
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What does case management do
Mobilize, monitor, and control resources that a patient uses during a course of an illness to balance quality and cost
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What is quality assurance/improvement/continuous
A process of monitoring, evaluating, reviewing, and improving the quality of care.
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Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)
Initiative aimed at providing future nurse with the knowledge, skills, and attitude necessary to ensure continuous improvement in quality and safety
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QI steps are outlined by who
Joint Comssion
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Critical Path
Key patient care activities and time frames for these activities which are needed fora specific case type or diagnosis
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Care Map
Blueprint for managing care delivered by all disciplines Monitoring outcomes
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Root cause analysis
Identify prevention strategies to ensure safety Asking Why
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Sentinel Event
Unexpected occurrences involving death or serious physical or psych injury or risk of
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What is the NP scope determined by
Individual state board nurse practice acts
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Who dictates the level of prescriptive authority
State board of nursing
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Who dictates that an NP can prescribe
DEA
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What does credentialing encompass
Required education, licensure, and certification to practice MINIMAL levels of acceptable performance
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What does licensure establish
Person is qualified to perform in a particular professional role Granted by State board of nursing
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What is certification
Person has met certain standard s in a partifcular profession signifying mastery AACN ANCC
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What is credentialing granted by
Hospital credentialing committee
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Quantitative vs Qualitative futility
Quantitative: # of interventions unlikely to produce benefit Qualitative: Quality of life will not improve with interventions
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Nonmaleficence
Do no harm
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Utilitarianism
The right act is the one that produces the greatest good for the greatest number of people
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Beneficence
The duty to prevent harm and promote good
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Justice
The duty to be fair
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Fidelity
The duty to be faithful
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Veracity
The duty to be truthful
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When did NP role develop
1960s in pediatrics
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Non experimental vs experimental design
NE: usually includes two broad descriptive categories of research no actual experiment EL Includes manipulation of a variable and utilizes randomization and a control group
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What is an Ex post facto design
In the past correlational research, examines relationship amongst variables
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Cross sectional
Observational study that examines a population with a very similar attribute but differs in one specific variable “surveys”
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Cohort
Observational study the can be retrospective or prospective that compares a particular outcome in groups of individuals who are alike but differ in a particular characteristic
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Longitudinal
Multiple measurements of a group over an extended period of time
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Quasi experimental
Manipulation of variables but lacks a comparison group or randomization
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Qualitative
Open ended quaestions
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6 levels of evidence hierarchy starting from the highest
1: Meta analysis of RCTs, 2. RCTs, 3. Quasi-experimental, 4. Qualitative cohort, 5. Case controlled, 6. Editorial
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PICOT
Framework to answer a clinical based question: Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome, Timing
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Type one vs Type two research error
Type 1: false positive, Type 2: False negative
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Meta anaylsis vs Meta synthesis
MA: quantitative MS: Qualitative
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Confidence interval
A interval that specifies that probability. A small probability interval implies a very precise range of values
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Standard deviation
Average amount of deviation of values from the mean
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Level of significance
Dictates statistical significance between two groups. The probability of false rejection of the null hypothesis. p<0.05 means the experimental and the control group are statically different
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Perfect correlation e
A measure that dictates correlation between two variables. +1 means a positive correlation
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T-Test
Test to evaluate the difference in means between two groups
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Reliability vs validity
R: consistency. V: accuracy
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Liability
Responsibility that in NP has for actions that fail to meet the standard of care
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Negligence
Failure of an individual to do what a reasonable person would do
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Malpractice
Failure of a profession to render services to the degree that another member of the same profession in similar circumstances would do.
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Assault vs battery
A: creation of apprehension or threat, B: striking of a person
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Libel vs slander
L: Written defamation. S: verbal defamation
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Sensitivity vs specificity
Sensitivity: True positive. Specificity: true negative
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Incidence vs prevalence
I: frequency. P: proportion
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Primordial, Primary, Secondary, and Teritiary prevention
Primordial: begins in childhood, prevent risk factors. Primary: modifying risk factors (immunizations/vaccines), Secondary: early identification and treatment. Tertiary: Rehab
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What is the Goal of Culturally and Linguistic Appropriate Services (CLAS)
Eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities and improve health for all American s
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What incidences demand reporting
HIV, COVID, syphilis, chlamydia, TB, Gun shot wounds, animal bites
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What kind of visits does Medicare not cover
Well visits not related to a specific disease
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Screenings are what kind of prevention
Secondary
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What does Medicaid pay?
After 3rd party or other insurance
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What does incident to billing cover
Only basic services like height and weight
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When ending a patient interaction what is not required
Referral to another provider

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