Week 1 Flashcards
Which model involves nurses, physicians, and ancillary health personnel functioning within a decentralised organizational structure and collaboratively making clinical decisions?
collaborative practice model
What is the title that encompasses a nurse practitioner (NP), midwife practitioner (MP), and clinical nurse specialist (CNS) ?
advanced practice nurse (APN)
What type of practice uses nursing intervention that promotes wellness, reduces the spread of illness, and improves the health status of groups of citizens or the community at large with emphasis on primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention?
community-oriented nursing practice
What is the ongoing examination of processes used to provide care, with the aim of improving quality by assessing and improving those processes that might improve patient care outcomes and patient satisfaction?
continuous quality improvement (CQI)
What is the practice called that uses the formulation of treatment decisions by using the best available research evidence and integrating this evidence with the practitioner’s skill and experience?
evidence-based practice (EBP)
What is the description of a person’s health status as a range with anchors that include poor health wellness on the other end?
health–illness continuum
What is an organised system for improving healthcare practice or the quality of care provided to patients Healthcare services in Australia and New Zealand, as in other developed countries, have experienced rapid and turbulent changes in the past few decades?Nursing, as a healthcare profession and the largest healthcare provider group, is significantly affected by changes in healthcare delivery. Nursing has played a unique and important role in the healthcare system and will continue to do so.
quality assurance (QA)
What is the process of faithfully following guidelines or directions called?
adherence
What is described as an interpretation or conclusion about a patient’s needs, concerns or
health problems, and/or the decision to take action (or not)?
clinical judgement
What is the process for analysing a situation, making a judgement, deciding on possible alternative reasons, and choosing an action to be taken called?
clinical reasoning
What are the specific pathophysiological manifestations that nurses monitor to detect onset or changes in status called?
collaborative problems
What is n interacting population of individuals living together within a larger society called?
community
What is thinking that belongs to the affective domain, involves imagination, intuition and
spontaneity, and complements scientific thinking for innovative problem solving in clinical practice called?
creative thinking
What is a process of insightful thinking that utilises multiple dimensions of one’s cognition to develop conclusions, solutions, and alternatives that are appropriate for the given situation called?
critical thinking
What are the pieces of data that the clinician collects through observation, reading records, talking to patients and others called?
cues
What occurs when the importance of pieces of data are recognised and collected?
cue acquisition
What is a systematic appraisal or examination of individuals, families, groups, and communities in terms of their cultural beliefs, values, and practices called?
cultural nursing assessment
What is the effective, individualised care that demonstrates respect for the dignity, personal rights, preferences, beliefs, and practices of the person receiving care, while acknowledging the biases of the carer and preventing these biases from interfering with the care provided called?
culturally competent nursing care
What is the knowledge, belief, art, morals, laws, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by humans as members of society called?
culture
What is the process by which a nurse recognises, interprets and integrates new information in order to choose a course of action
called?
decision making
What is an ethical theory maintaining that ethical standards or principles exist independently of the ends or consequences called?
deontological or formalist theory
What are the formal, systematic study of moral beliefs called?
ethics
What is determination of the patient’s responses to the nursing interventions and the extent to which the outcomes have been achieved called?
evaluation
What is a variety of learning experiences designed to promote behaviours that facilitate health called?
health education
What is the art and science of assisting people to change their lifestyle towards a higher state of wellness called?
health promotion
What is the actualisation or carrying out of the plan of care through nursing interventions called?
implementation
What is thinking that subconsciously draws on knowledge gained through experience, based on a memory of the cue patterns of the patients that have previously been cared for, sometimes described as a “hunch” or a “gut feeling” called?
intuitive thinking
What is the act of gaining knowledge and skill known as?
learning
What are a group of people whose physical or cultural characteristics differ from the majority of
people in a society called?
minority
The responsibility of the individual to translate moral principles into action so that personhood is preserved through the actions of the healthcare professional is known as?
moral agency
What is the situation in which a clear conflict exists between two or more moral principles or competing moral claims called?
moral dilemma
What is a conflict that arises within oneself when a person is aware of the correct course of action, but institutional constraints stand in the way of pursuing the correct action called?
moral distress
What is a competing moral claim or principle; one claim or principle is clearly dominant called?
moral problem
What is a conflict that arises within a person when he or she cannot accurately define what the moral situation is or what moral principles apply but has a strong feeling that something is not right called?
moral uncertainty
What is the adherence to informal personal values called?
morality
What are actual or potential health problems that can be managed by independent nursing interventions called?
nursing diagnoses
What is a deliberate problem-solving approach for meeting people’s healthcare and nursing needs; common components are assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation
called?
nursing process
What are the development of goals and outcomes, as well as a plan of care designed to assist the patient in resolving the diagnosed problems and achieving the identified goals and desired outcomes called?
planning
What is a concept of the uniqueness of individuals, an expression of humanity, values and beliefs that finds expression through attitudes and behaviour of health professionals called?
personhood
What is the demonstration of a respect for personhood through the words and actions of the professional called?
person-centredness
What is nursing care that is congruent with the concept of personhood called?
person-centred care
What is the skill involving identifying a problem and then taking steps to resolve it called?
problem solving
What is the process based on metacognition, the thinking about thinking, which leads to learning that can then be applied in new situations called?
reflection
What is the personal accountability for one’s actions or behaviour called?
responsibility
What is the personal knowledge that comes from an understanding of self called?
self-awareness
What are relatively large groups of people who share characteristics that identify them as a distinct entity called?
subculture
What is the imparting of knowledge called?
teaching
What is the theoretical basis of ethics, which focuses on the ends or consequences of actions, such as utilitarianism known as?
teleological theory or consequentialism
What is the nursing care to clients and families across cultural variations called?
transcultural nursing
What is a teleological theory of ethics based on the concept of “the greatest good for the greatest number” known as?
utilitarianism
What is a condition of good physical and emotional health sustained by a healthy lifestyle called?
wellness
What is a bias that discriminates, stigmatises, and disadvantages older people based solely on their chronological age known as?
ageism
What is the nursing care of individuals and families that is designed to (1) promote and maintain health and (2) prevent disease. It is provided as patients transition through the healthcare system to health-related services outside of the hospital setting called?
community-based nursing
What is having more than one illness at the same time (e.g., diabetes mellitus and congestive heart failure) called?
comorbidity
What is the physical, emotional, or financial harm to an older person by one or more of the individual’s children, carers, or others; includes neglect known as?
elder abuse
What Are a group related by reciprocal caring, mutual responsibilities, and loyalties called?
family
What is the administration of multiple medications at the same time; common in older persons with several chronic illnesses called?
polypharmacy
What is the healthcare delivery focused on health promotion and prevention of illness or disease called?
primary prevention
What is the healthcare delivery centred on health maintenance and aimed at early detection of disease, with prompt intervention to prevent or minimise loss of function and independence known as?
secondary prevention
What is the healthcare delivery focused on minimising deterioration associated with disease and improving quality of life through rehabilitation measures with a pattern of eventual decline in ability to perform even basic activities of daily living, such as toileting and eating known as?
tertiary prevention
