Nursing Concepts Ch. 6 & 7 Flashcards
Evidence-based practice
a problem-solving approach to clinical practice that combines the use of the best evidence & clinician’s expertise, patient preferences and values, and available healthcare resources in making decisions about patient care.
PICO
format to state questions
P
patient population of interest
I
intervention of interest
C
Comparison of interest
O
outcome
T
type of study
Peer reviewed article
is an article submitted for publication and reviewed by panel of experts familiar with the topic or subject matter of the article.
Clinical guidelines
systematically developed statements about a plan of care for a specific set of clinical circumstances involving a specific patient population.
Bias
distort study findings.
A Nursing-sensitive outcome
focuses on how nursing interventions affect patients and offers a measure of nursing contribution to patient care.
Intuition
is the inner sensing “gut” feeling that something is so.
Clinical inference
is a critical thinking skill in which you make tentative conclusions based on observed data or cues existing in patient situations
Clinical decision making
requires careful reasoning so that you choose the options for the best patient outcomes on the basis of the patients condition and priority of the problem.
PDSA
Plan do study act