UNIT X Flashcards
COMPETENCY DEVELOPMENT IN THE USE OF NURSING INFORMATICS AND TECHNOLOGY
It helps people adapt to technology as it influences the acceptance of scientific information
Reflection
It helps people create advances in health information technology
Reflection
Reflection on professional practice deepens when routine practice benchmarks are available for review (McKay, Coombs, & Duerden, 2014)
Five Core Competencies For Healthcare Professionals
- Provide patient-centered care
- Work in interdisciplinary teams
- Employ evidence-based practice
- Apply quality improvement
- Utilize informatics
This is central whenever change is anticipated, created, required to improve practice or adjust to technological change
Reflection
Core Competencies For Healthcare Professionals:
– identify, respect and care about patients’ differences, values, preferences, and expressed needs …. And continuously advocate disease prevention, wellness, and promotion of healthy lifestyles, including a focus on population health.
Provide patient-centered care
Core Competencies For Healthcare Professionals:
cooperate, collaborate, communicate, and integrate care in teams
Work in interdisciplinary teams
Core Competencies For Healthcare Professionals:
– integrate best research with clinical expertise and patient values for optimum care, and participate in learning and research activities to the extent feasible
Employ evidence-based practice
Core Competencies For Healthcare Professionals:
– identify errors and hazards in care; understand and implement basic safety design principles … design and test interventions to change processes and systems of care, with the objective of improving quality.
Apply quality improvement
Core Competencies For Healthcare Professionals:
- communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making using information technology
Utilize informatics
What does “QSEN” stands for
Quality And Safety Education For Nurses
An effort made by nursing professional organizations to revise the nursing curriculum to be aligned with the IOM Competencies.
Quality And Safety Education For Nurses (QSEN)
Which of the 4 PHASES of Quality And Safety Education For Nurses is:
Identified SIX COMPETENCIES that needed to be developed during prelicensure
Phase I
Under PHASE 1 of Quality And Safety Education For Nurses (QSEN), what are the Identified SIX COMPETENCIES that needed to be developed during prelicensure
- Patient-centered care
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Evidence-based Practice (EBP)
- Quality Improvement (QI)
- Safety
- Informatics
What competency under PHASE I of QSEN is being identified:
Definition: Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
Teamwork and Collaboration
What competency under PHASE I of QSEN is being identified:
Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for a patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
Patient-centered Care
What competency under PHASE I of QSEN is being identified:
Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for the delivery of optimal healthcare.
Evidence-based Practice (EBP)
What competency under PHASE I of QSEN is being identified:
Definition: Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of healthcare systems.
Quality Improvement (QI)