Chapter 1 Flashcards
What is the Joint Commission?
Is a national organization that offers peer evaluation for accreditation every 3 years for all types of U.S. health care agencies that meet their standards.
What is the NPSG?
National Patient Safety Goals. These goals require health care organizations to focus on specific priority safety practices, many of which involve nursing care.
What is RRT?
Rapid Response Teams. It saves lives and decrease the risk for harm by providing care to patients before a respiratory or cardiac arrest occurs.
What is a intensivist?
A physician who specializes in critical care.
What is a hospitalist?
A family practitioner or internist employed by the hospital.
What is patient-centered care?
Is when the medical-surgical nurse recognizes “the patient or designee 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”
What is self-determination or self-management?
Respect implies that patients are treated as autonomous individuals capable of making informed decisions about their care.
What is beneficence?
Emphasizes the importance of preventing harm and ensuring the patients well-being
What is the social justice?
Refers to equality; that is, all patients should be treated equally and fairly
What does collaboration entail?
Entails planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care together using an interdisciplinary (ID) plan of care.
What is case management?
Process to provide quality and cost-effective services and resources to achieve positive patient outcomes.
What is SBAR?
Is a formal method of communication between two or more members of the health care team.
What is delegation?
Is the process of transferring to a competent person the authority to perform a selected nursing task or activity in a selected patient care situation.
What is supervision?
Is guidance or direction, evaluation, and follow-up by the nurse to ensure that the task or activity is performed appropriately.
What is EBP?
Evidence-based practice is the integration of the best current evidence to make decisions about patient care. It considers the patient’s preferences and values, as well as one’s own clinical expertise for the delivery of optimal health care.
