TEST 5 Flashcards
Goals of nursing research are
To find solutions
Improve care
For policy and education development
Provide evidence-based nursing practice
What is Quantitative vs Qualitative research?
Quantitative - NUMBERS/STATISTICS
Qualitative - Feelings, perception, asking for input
What is evidence-based practice?
Problem-solving approach to making clinical decisions
What are the steps in EBP?
- Ask Q about clincal area of interest or intervention
- Collect best evidence
- Analyze evidence
- Put evidence into a practice change
- Evaluate the practice change
What are the steps in EBP?
- Ask Q about clincal area of interest or intervention
- Collect best evidence
- Analyze evidence
- Put evidence into a practice change
- Evaluate the practice change
What is PICO? PICOT
P - patient, population or problem of interest?
I - intervention of interest?
C - Comparison of interest (What are we currently doing right now)
0 - What is the expected outcome of interest?
T - TIME, when do you expect
What are the 4 main concepts in nursing theory?
Individual/person
Environment
health
nursing
Who/what was Florence Nightingale
First nursing theorist
Promotion of health
Investigates impact of environment and cleanliness on healing
guided practice of professional nursing
Who/What was Dorothea Orem?
Theory of self-care deficit
Goal to restore patients self-care capability
When there is a self care deficit then nursing steps in
Who/what is Sister Callista Roy
Adaptation model
When people experience a change in health status they need to adapt - nurse helps them adapt
IE. Newly diagnosed diabetic
Who/what is Imogene King?
Theory of goal attainment
NUrse and patient must mutually set goals to meet health
What are the stages of infection?
Incubation - microorganisms are starting to grow
Prodromal - early signs and symptoms/most contagious
Full stage illness
Convalescent - recovery
What are the stages of inflammation?
Recognition - macrophages that encounter pathogens/damage
Recruitment - WBC, histamine, draw water into tissues
Removal - macrophages phagocytosis bacteria
Repair - growth factor
What are the steps in immune response?
Recognize - by antigens
Flag - with antibodies = clump up
Engulf - phagocytosis
Remember -
Nosocomial infection
Is a healthcare-associated infection - HAI
Developed infection in the hospital
Exogenous infection
Endogenous infection
Latrogenic infection
Exogenous infection - got it from someone else
Endogenous infection - developed within themselves/c diff/ persons own bacteria
Latrogenic infection - developed from a procedure
How to put on PPE?
Gown
Mask
Goggles
Gloves
How to take off PPE?
Gloves
Goggles
Gown
Mask
Standard precautions
everyone gets
Who gets airborne precautions and what do you wear?
TB patients
N95 mask