Chapter 11, APA & Chapter 13. 2
What are basic elements of APA format?
- 12-point black font (Times New Roman) - 1" margin on all sides - Entire paper double spaced - Major sections: * Title page. * Abstract (optional). * Body of paper. * References. * Appendices, Tables & Figures (not appropriate for all papers).
What is nursing informatics?
A specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice.
What is documentation?
Any written or electronically generated information that describes the care or service provided to a particular client or group of clients. Through documentation, nurses communicate to other healthcare professionals through observations, decisions, actions and outcomes of care.
What is basic research?
Designed to broaden the base of knowledge, rather than solve an immediate problem, and is typically done in any laboratory setting.
What is applied research?
Designed to find a solution to a practical problem. It is often referred to as clinical research and is usually carried out in a non-laboratory setting.
What is the main role of the Institution Review Board's (IRB) in research?
IRBs are mandated to review all research that involves human subjects in institutions that receive federal funds. The purpose is to protect subjects from unnecessary risk or from risks that outweigh potential benefits.
How are quotations that are more than 40 words incorporated into the text?
Long Quotations. Display in a double spaced block, indented five spaces from the left, with no quotation marks.
What is the highest level of evidence to base nursing practice?
Meta-synthesis.
Are blogs and informal internet sources permissible?
No.
Should newspapers and magazine articles in the popular press be used?
No.
Should nurses be more involved?
Nurses need to be involved to ensure that the system meets nursing care documentation requirements and that relevant data can be collected to assist nurses in providing and improving care.
How are quotations that are less than 40 words incorporated into the text?
Short Quotations. Incorporate into the text and enclose with double quotation marks (" ").
Are data from sites such as World Health Organization, Governmental websites and professional organization's websites good sources of facts and data?
Yes.
What is meta-analysis?
Where the results from multiple research studies on the same topic are combined using statistics into a single summary.
How does HIPAA relate to patient privacy?
- It's a law that amended the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve portability and continuity of healthcare information and ensure privacy of patient information. - Can't release patient information to the public or anyone that doesn't have rights to the information. Only the most minimal amount of information necessary is given to providers and insurers. Health information cannot be openly shared by healthcare providers.
What are the 5 elements of the APA Title page?
- Page number - Running head - Title of the manuscript - Byline or the author's name -Institution affiliation
What is HIPAA?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Privacy policy to keep patient information private.
The format and content of documentation of care should include what?
Omitted care, medication and outcomes, noncompliance-nonadherence and reason, allergies, injection sites, therapy, blood administration, abnormal lab reports, status change, name, date, etc.
Remember that employing evidence-based practice requires use of research findings but also what/who else?
Patients, interdisciplinary teams. The best research comes from whatever the research findings are.
How does informatics impact care?
The IOM recommendations indicate that informatics can lead to safe, quality care - and it truly can. Although it does not guarantee perfection.
