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| Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) |
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| a title which encompasses the nurse practitioners (NPs), clinical nurse specialists (CNSs), certified nurse midwives (CNMs) and certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs). |
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| Collaborative practice model |
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| Involves nurses, physicians, and ancillary health personnel functioning within a decentralized organizational structure and collaboratively making clinical decisions. |
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| Community-oriented nursing practice |
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| 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. |
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| Continuous quality improvement (CQI) |
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| 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. |
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| description of a person's health status as a range with anchors that include poor health or imminent death on one end of the continuum to high-level wellness on the other end. |
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| ____defines nursing as the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to health and illness. |
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| American Nurses Association (ANA) |
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| Changes occurring in health care delivery and nursing are the result of : |
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| societal, economic, technologic, scientific, and political forces. Mainly the shifts in population demographics ( aging pop). |
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The health care system in the United states, traditionally has been disease oriented, is placing increasing emphasis on health and its promotion.
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| ____ defines health as a "state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity" |
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| World Health Organization (WHO) |
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| WHO's definition of wellness does not allow for variation. On the ______, even people with a chronic illness or disability may attain a high level of wellness if they are successful in meeting their health potential within the limits of their chronic illness or disability. |
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| ___ involves being proactive and being inbolved in self-care activities aimed toward a stat of physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being. |
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Tody, increasing emphasis is placed on health, health promotion, wellness, and self-care.
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The shifiting demographics of the population, the increase in chronic illnesses and disability, the greater emphasis on helath care costs, and technologic advances have resulted in changing emphases in health care delivery and in nursing.
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| Unlike QA, which focuses on individual incidents or errors and minimal expectations, ___ focuses on the processes used to provide care, with the aim of improving quality by assessing and improving those processes that most affect patient care outcomes and patient satisfaction. |
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| Continuous quality improvement (CQI) |
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| ____ are tolls for tracking a patient's progress toward achieving positive outcomes within specified time frames. Developed for patients with certain diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) (e.g. heart failure, stroke, diabetes)--indicating diagnostic tests, treatment, etc. |
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| facilitates and coordinates interventions to ensure that the patient progresses through the key events (clinical pathway) and achieves the desired outcomes. |
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| _____ is a system of coordinating health care services to ensure cost-effectiveness, accountability, and quality care. To provide patient and family with access to required services. |
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| ___ has gained such prominence because of decreased costs of care associated with decreased lengths of hospital stays coupled with rapid and frequent interunit transfers from specialty to statndard care unitys. |
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-Practitioner Role
-Leadership Role
-Research Role |
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| ___involves those actions taken by nurses to meet the health care and nursing needs of individual patients, their families, and significant others. This is the dominant one for nurse in primary, secondary, and tertiary health care settings and in home care and community nursing. |
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| ____is often viewd as a role assumed by nurses who have titles that suggest leadership--its All nursing positions. Involving in : decision making, relating, influencing and facilitating. |
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| ___the primary taks of nursing--contribute to the scientific base of nursing practice. It is the responsibility of ALL nurses in clinical practice. |
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- vital role in health care
practioner
leadership
research
-Responsibility to
foster well-being, self actualization, personal fulfillment
promote positive health care attitudes, behaviors
protect their patients--advocates
center of the care for hospitalized patients |
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