Quality Improvement And Change Management: Part 2 Flashcards

1
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Who is responsible for reviewing research projects involving human subjects prior to launch of study?

A

Institutional Review Board (IRB)

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2
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What is commonly used when performing a lit review?

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BOOLEAN Logic

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3
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What is quantitative data?

A

Numbers

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4
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What kind of data is categorical and can be arranged in any order?

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Nominal

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5
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What kind of data is ordered and ranked?

A

Ordinal

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6
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What type of research is nominal and ordinal data?

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Quantitative (numbers)

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7
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What is qualitative data?

A

Words

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8
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What takes longer to collect, quantitative or qualitative?

A

Qualitative

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9
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What is the average score of a sample?

A

Mean

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10
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What is the middle data point on a scale?

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Median

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11
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What is the data point occurring most frequently/most often?

A

Mode

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12
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What is the average of the averages”

A

Standard deviation

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13
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what is the best measurement of variability?

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Standard deviation

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14
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What is an educated guess of expected outcome?

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Hypothesis

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15
Q

Which variable is the CAUSE and occurs first?

A

Independent variable

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16
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What does PICOT stand for?

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-Patient/population
-Intervention
-Comparative
-Outcome
-Time

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17
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Which variable is the EFFECT; occurs after??

A

Dependent variable

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18
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What is a group studied over time?

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Cohort group

19
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What type of cohort group is studying a group WITHOUT illness to evaluate development?

A

Prospective cohort group

20
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What type of cohort study is data collected AFTER illness, to determine exposure

A

Retrospective cohort study

21
Q

What type of study looks at disease and exposure at the same time?? (Mix of prospective and retrospective?

A

Cross-sectional study

22
Q

Which involves less time and money–cohort or cross-sectional study?

A

Cross-sectional

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24
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Which study compares a group with the disease/illness to a group without?

A

Case control study

25
Q

What are the diff types of research studies?

A

-Cohort
-Cross-sectional
-Case control

26
Q

What is quantitative research determining relationship between dependent and independent variables?

A

Quasi-experimental research

27
Q

Which research manipulates independent variables?

A

Experimental

28
Q

Which research has randomization?

A

Experimental

29
Q

Who is the father is psychology?

A

Kurt Lewin

30
Q

What theory involves learning being rejected and replaced through 3 phases?

A

Kurt Lewin’s Change Theory in Nursing

31
Q

What are the three stages of The Change Theory?

A
  1. Unfreezing
  2. Change
  3. Refreeze
32
Q

Which stage of change theory involves a process of staff needing to change thoughts, feelings, and beviors in order to be more productive?

A

Change stage

33
Q

Which stage of change theory involves getting staff ready for the change and ready to let go of old processes?

A

Unfreezing

34
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Which stage of change theory is when the change becomes the norm, and the standard operating procedure?

A

Refreezing

35
Q

What happens in the three stages of change theory by steps

A
  1. unlearn previous knowledge (unfreeze)
  2. implement change (change)
  3. change becomes permanent (refreeze)
36
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What does a force field analysis do?

A

determines driving and restraining forces to change

37
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What is a driving form?

A

promotes change

38
Q

What is a restraining force?

A

resisting change

39
Q

What stage of change theory is a force field analysis helpful?

A

Unfreezing (stage 1)

40
Q

What occurs in Kotter’s 8 step change model?

A

-create climate for change
-engage and enable organization
-implement and sustain change

41
Q

Who came up with the theory recognizing there is resistance to change?

A

Havelock’s Size Phases of Planned Change

42
Q

In what steps are teams normally formed?

A
  1. Forming
  2. Storming
  3. Norming
  4. Performing
  5. Adjourning/mourning
43
Q

Which level of team building is the most effective?

A

performing

44
Q

What are the different rates in which staff will embrace change?

A

-Innovators
-early adopters
-early majority
-late majority
-laggards