Blended Competencies, Clinical Reasoning, and Processes of Person-Centered Care

A comprehensive set of fill-in-the-blank flashcards to aid in the review of blended competencies, clinical reasoning, and processes related to person-centered care.

Provision of a caring relationship facilitates what in health?

Healing.

Attention to the range of human experiences and responses is given to health and what?

Illness.

The integration of assessment data with knowledge gained from an appreciation of the patient or group’s what experience?

Subjective.

Application of scientific knowledge assists in the processes of diagnosis and what?

Treatment.

Professional nursing knowledge is advanced through what kind of inquiry?

Scholarly.

Influencing social and public policy promotes what?

Social justice.

Assurance of safe, quality, and evidence-based approach applies to what?

Practice.

Reflective practice leads to what kind of learning?

Personal.

The nurse’s action is in response to individual clinical what?

Need.

The individualized nursing what emphasizes patient-centered care?

Process.

All team members are considered what?

Caregivers.

Care is based on continuous what type of relationships?

Healing.

Care is customized and reflects patient needs, values, and what?

Choices.

Freely shared knowledge and information between patients and caregivers foster what?

Collaboration.

A healing environment is characterized by comfort, support, and what?

Peace.

Families and friends of the patient are considered an essential part of what team?

Care.

Patient safety is a visible what?

Priority.

Transparency is the rule in the care of whom?

The patient.

All caregivers focus on the best interests and what goals of the patient?

Personal.

The patient is the source of what for their care?

Control.

Open-mindedness and self-awareness are examples of personal what of the nurse?

Attributes.

Cognitive competencies include critical thinking and purpose of what?

Thinking.

Interpersonal competencies promote human dignity and what?

Respect.

Developing ethical/legal competencies involves understanding legal what?

Boundaries.

The moral code of a nurse is to assist all patients to the best of one’s what?

Ability.

Using ethical/legal skills involves following a what code?

Moral.

QSEN competencies include patient-centered care and teamwork and what?

Collaboration.

Clinical judgment concepts include critical thinking and clinical what?

Reasoning.

Decision making is guided by standards, policies, ethics codes, and what?

Laws.

The Tanner Model includes noticing, interpreting, responding, and what?

Reflecting.

The nursing process includes assessing, diagnosing, planning, what, and evaluating?

Implementing.

When analyzing patient data, the nurse is doing what to the patient’s strengths?

Diagnosing.

The nursing process is systematic, what, interpersonal, outcome-oriented, and universally applicable?

Dynamic.

Scientific problem-solving is a what process?

Systematic.

Intuitive problem-solving is based on a background of what and skill?

Experience.

Concept mapping requires learners to identify, graphically display, and link key what?

Concepts.

Reflection in action is also known as what on your feet?

Thinking.

Reflection for action helps in thinking about how future actions might what?

Change.

Patient care is scientifically based and what?

Holistic.

The nurse's involvement in care promotes health and prevents what?

Disease.

Desired outcomes must be what for patient care?

Specified.

The nursing process involves collaboration with other health care what?

Workers.

A nurse evaluates the effectiveness of the plan in terms of patient goal what?

Achievement.

Assessing involves collecting, validating, and what patient data?

Communicating.

Evaluating measures the extent to which the patient achieved what?

Outcomes.

The nursing process is what in nature due to overlapping steps?

Dynamic.

Developing a plan of individualized care specifies desired patient what?

Goals.

The nursing process aids in facilitating coping with altered what?

Functioning.

All caregivers cooperate with a focus on patient what?

Interests.

The patient’s responses to nursing actions are considered during what phase?

Reflecting.

Concept mapping is an instructional strategy requiring identification and what display?

Graphical.

Cognitive competencies involve the critique of what?

Judgment/decision.

Among cognitive competencies, what is a key aspect related to clinical critique?

Clinical judgment.

Technical competencies involve the proper use of what?

Equipment.

Ethical/legal competencies require owning personal strengths and what?

Weaknesses.

Patient-centered care is essential for quality what?

Improvement.

Safety is one of the core QSEN what?

Competencies.

Human beings are always at the heart of what profession?

Nursing.

The nursing process is what across various nursing activities?

Universally applicable.

Blended competencies include cognitive, technical, interpersonal, and ethical/legal what?

Competencies.

In clinical reasoning, key problems and issues are identified through what?

Analysis.

Decision-making includes logic, intuition, and what?

Creativity.

Clinical judgment results from effective clinical what and decision making?

Reasoning.

Reflection on action occurs after the activity has what?

Happened.

The purpose of clinical reasoning is to lead to effective what judgment?

Clinical.

The individual strengths and weaknesses should be owned by what kind of nurse?

Professional.

Identifying patient strengths is part of what process?

Diagnosing.

Personal attributes such as motivation and what are vital for nurses?

Leadership.

Technical competencies support the what of caregiving skills?

Development.

For patient care, concept mapping helps in understanding and analyzing what type of relationships within the patient's care plan?

Patient.

The first step in the nursing process is what?

Assessing.

Reflection for action focuses on planning for future what?

Interventions.

Promoting health includes individual patient what and involvement?

Participation.

Person-centered care emphasizes the role of the patient as the source of what in their care?

Control.

Mutual exchange in interpersonal competencies fosters what type of relationships?

Caring.

The nursing process is a framework for recognizing patient what needs?

Priority.

Completing nursing care may involve termination or revision of what?

The plan.

Evaluation in nursing determines whether patient what were met?

Outcomes.

The nursing process promotes collaboration among health care what?

Professionals.

Cognitive competencies facilitate critical what and judgment?

Thinking.

Patients and families should be included in early what making?

Decision.

Assessment involves detecting and noticing what during patient care?

Cues.

Legal boundaries clarify the scope of nursing what?

Practice.

What problem-solving involves trying solutions until a satisfactory one is found?

Trial-and-error.

Patient benefits of the nursing process include facilitating coping with altered functioning, promoting individual patient participation, and achieving specified patient goal what?

Achievement.

Nursing benefits of using the nursing process include promoting collaboration among health care professionals, assisting in the development of caregiving skills, and preventing what?

Disease.

What are the four personal attributes important for thoughtful, person-centered nursing practice?

Compassion, integrity, self-awareness, and resilience.

What forms the knowledge base for thoughtful practice?

Evidence-based nursing science, clinical guidelines, and patient preferences.

Name the four categories of Blended Competencies in nursing.

Cognitive (critical thinking), Technical (skills), Interpersonal (communication), and Ethical/Legal (responsibility).

What are the six core QSEN competencies?

Safety, Patient-centered care, Teamwork, Evidence-based practice, Quality improvement, and Informatics.

What is Reflective Practice in nursing?

Self-evaluation after providing care to identify strengths and areas for growth.

What three elements define 'Caring' in nursing practice?

Therapeutic presence, advocacy, and respect for dignity.

What is the focus of Watson’s Theory of Human Caring?

Transpersonal caring relationships for holistic healing.

What are the five Caring Processes in Swanson’s Model?

Knowing, being with, doing for, enabling, and maintaining belief.

What does Leininger’s Transcultural Caring model emphasize?

Cultural competence as central to providing caring.

Which problem-solving approach is considered unsafe in clinical settings?

Trial-and-error problem solving.

What is Scientific Problem Solving?

A systematic, evidence-based, and replicable approach to problem-solving.

How does Intuitive Problem Solving work?

It relies on pattern recognition and 'gut feelings' developed from experience, but must be validated.

List the steps of the Clinical Reasoning Model.

Collect cues

Process information

Identify problems

Establish goals

Take action

Evaluate outcomes

Reflect.

What are the four stages of Tanner’s Clinical Judgment Model?

Noticing, interpreting, responding, and reflecting.