Patient-Centered Care

Question 1

Involves the nurse acting in an independent manner to ensure quality patient care

Answer 1

Autonomy

Professional Responsibilities

Question 2

helping the patient to maintain or regain health; manage their disease symptoms; and attain maximal functioning and independence throughout the healing process. Help the patient and family set goals and assist them with meeting these goals with minimal financial cost, time, and energy.

Answer 2

Caregiver

Professional Responsibilities

Question 3

Central to protecting the patients that’s in our care. Provide pt additional info to help decide on a course of treatment, find an interpreter, and speak against policies or actions at the facility

Answer 3

Advocate

Professional Responsibilities

Question 4

Describes the reasons for care activities, reinforce patient learning and positive patient behaviors

Answer 4

Educator

Professional Responsibilities

Question 5

The 6 C’s of Caring in Nursing

Answer 5

Compassion

Competence

Confidence

Conscience

Commitment

Comportment

Question 6

Involves “being there” and “being with” the patient; “Person to person encounter conveying closeness and sense of caring”

Answer 6

(Caring in Nursing)

Providing Presence

Question 7

Task-oriented, Caring, Protective;

Comforting approach to communicate concern and support

Answer 7

(Caring in Nursing)

Touch

Question 8

Allows the nurse to participate in the pts life; necessary for meaningful interactions; leads to truly knowing and responding to what really matters to the patient/family

Answer 8

(Caring in Nursing)

Listening

Question 9

Facilitated by Continuity of Care and Clinical Expertise; allows nurse to avoid assumptions, focuses on the patient and their desires/wishes/needs

Answer 9

(Caring in Nursing)

Knowing the patient

Question 10

Involves the interconnectedness between nurse and patient; the patient finds balance between their life values and those of others; nurses recognize the link between mind, body and spirit

Answer 10

(Caring in Nursing)

Spiritual Caring

Question 11

Providing principles of caring to alleviate physical, emotional, social, and spiritual stress

Answer 11

(Caring in Nursing)

Relieving Pain and Suffering

Question 12

Extension of caring principles to the family as a resource

Answer 12

(Caring in Nursing)

Family Care

Question 13

Medical errors that should never occur

Ex: wrong-site surgery, suicide, delay in treatment, medication errors, and patient falls

Answer 13

Never Events

Question 14

An event or situation that did not produce patient injury, but only because of chance or fortuitous timely intervention
Ex: Patient with penicillin allergy receives penicillin, but has no reaction
Ex: A nurse happens to realize that a physician wrote an order in the wrong chart

Answer 14

Near Miss

Question 15

An unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk therof

Answer 15

Sentinel Event

Question 16

Occurs when the nurse recognizes the patient or designer as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient’s preferences, values, and needs

Answer 16

Patient-Centered Care