Fundamentals- Quiz 2

nursing scope of practice

defines duties that a nurse is considered competent to carry out and authorized to perform specified by licesenced state law.

What does scope and standards matter?

It matters for the safety and welfare of our patients

TJC

A regulatory agency that enables and affirms the highest standards of healthcare quality & patient saqfety for all.

Regulatory agencies

Enforce standards and practice requirements that play a major role in the quality and costs of care delivered.

Healthcare associated infections

A result of germs entering your body through medical care.

What are the five types of healthcare associated infections?

Catheter- associated UTI’s, surgical site infections, bloodstream infection, pneumonia, gastrointestinal infections

What is an example of a gastrointestinal infection?

C.diff

What is pneumonia?

infection of the lungs

What is a catheter associated UTI?

when germs travel along the urinary catheter and cause an infection in your bladder or kidney.

What is a surgical site infection?

An infection that happens after surgery in the part of the body where the surgery took place.

What does HCAHPS surveys help hospitals assess?

patient satisfactory

What are things that nurses can directly influence?

patient room environment, patient experience, patient satisfaction, HCAHPS scores

What are the 5 different typesof healthcare delivery settings?

Virtual visits, convenience care clinic, office visit,urgent care, ER

Appropriate healthcare setting for life threatening or severe medical conditions

ER (emergency room)

Appropriate health care setting for non life threatening but need care quickly.

Urgent care

Appropriate healthcare setting for wanting routine care or have a minor, complex, or chonic problem.

office visit

Appropriate healthcare setting for having a minor problem that may require a test/ exam but Dr. is not available.

Convenience care clinic

Appropriate healthcare setting for a minor problem that wont require a test

virtual visits

6 levels of healthcare ( less frequent —> most frequent) :

long term, restorative, acute, secondary, primary, preventitve

what are the 4 parts of medicare?

Admission, seeing dr, medication= hospital visit

What age can you recieve medicare

65

How can you qualify for medicaid?

having low income, children, aged, blind, or disabeled

What type of reporters are nurses considered?

Mandated reporters

When do you begin to discharge a patient?

Day 1 of admission

What are the 3 typesof communication methods?

I-SBAR-R, Handoff report, read back

What is lateral/ horizontal violence?

Incivility that that is peer-to-peer.

what is vertical violence?

Incivility from supervisor to employee or vice versa

What is the PDSA cycle?

1. Plan

2. do

3. study

4. act

What is risk management?

The identificatio, evaluation, and prioritization of risks to eliminate or mitigate their probability to serverity or to leverage opportunities.

What are examples of risk management?

Incident report, sentinel event, never event