Leadership Exam 2
What model of pt care that primary nurse has 24 hours responsibility for planning pt care from admission to treatment to discharge?
primary nursing
Autonomy
promote self determination/freedom of choice
"the thing speaks itself", harm is obviously the result of negligence
res ipsa loquitur
"the master is responsible for the acts of his servant"
respondeat superior
What is the vital leadership role in ethical decision making?
self awareness
"to let the decision stand" - use precedents
stare decisis
What is six sigma approach?
statistical measurement that reflects how well a product or process is performing
What is the hallmark of quality control?
support from top level administration
A new charge nurse is leaving work each day feeling overwhelmed and not completing tasks. What kind of delegation error is the charge nurse making?
Underdelegating
What model of pt care has ancillary personnel collaborated to provide care to pt under the direction of a professional nurse and requires extensive team communication and planning?
team nursing
Veracity
telling the truth
Utility
the good outweighs the want/need on ind
wrong fault act
tort
total quality management
- A philosophy that involves everyone in an organization in a continual effort to improve quality and achieve customer satisfaction. - focus on system more than ind. Doing right things, right way, and prevention.
What would accurately describe appropriate delegation?
- Increases the scope of the nurse's liability - Helps manage the health care team - Is based on clear communication
What is moral distress?
- When the nurse knows the right thing to do but either personal or institutional factors make it difficult to do the right thing. - usually occurs with 2 ethical principles compete
What are included in tort?
- assault and battery - false imprisonment - invasion of privacy - defamation of character - physical restrain that leads to claims of false imprisionment
Total Patient Care is also called
- case method nursing - span of control
What are leapfrog group initiatives?
- computerized physician order - EBP - ICU physician staffing - use leapfrog safe practice score
2 analysis benchmarking uses
- critical event analysis - root cause analysis
What is the "just culture"?
- deemphasizes blame for errors - focuses on addressing factors that lead to med error
Method to implement change of Studer (6)
- effective communication - critical thinking - rounding on staff and pt - motivate and recognize staff - select and retain talent - developing the healthcare team - pre-and post visit pt call
What is the disadvantage of functional nursing?
- fragment care - overlooking pt priority needs
The function of BOARD of RN?
- monitor RN educational standards - RN continouing education - Discipline RNs - Boundaries for practice are defined in the Nurse Practice Act of each state
What UAP can do?
- non invasive/ non sterile treatment - Collect/reporting data: VS, weight, height, I/O, cap ref, or collect urine for testing - Ambulation, positioning, turning - transport within facility - personal hygiene - feeding - ADLs and social activities
Medicaid
- poor - people dont have insurance - pregnant women dont have insurance - disability <65
Evidence Base leadership must have according to Studer
- rounding for outcomes - thank you notes - selection and the first 90 days - key words at key time - post phone call
Audit used in quality control
- structure - process - outcome
Hallmarks of Effective Quality Control Program
- support from top level administration - quality goals - process is going on
What are 5 rights of delegations?
- task - circumstance - person - direction/ communication - supervision
What model of pt care that nurse is responsible for meeting the needs of all assigned patients during their time on duty?
total patient care
two approaches to Ethical Decision Making
1. Deontological - duty 2. Teleological - outcome/reason
Steps in Auditing Quality Control
1. Establish control criteria 2. Identify the info related to the criteria 3. determine ways to collect the info 4. Collect and analyze 5. Compare collected info with established criteria 6. make a judgement about quality 7. provide info and take correct action if needed 8. re-evaluation
Framework for ethical decision making
1. Utilitariansism 2. Duty-base reasoning 3. Right base reasoning 4. Intutionism
Steps in the decision making process
1. gather facts 2. brainstorm 3. pros/cons 4. decide 5. follow through 6. define/ clarify
Two models of QI
1. total quality management (TQM) - continuous quality improvement 2. Toyota production system (TPS)
3 prioritizing information
1. tracking pt information 2. setting time management 3. making lists 4. reprioritizing
What are the sample of ethical making decision?
1. traditional problem solving process 2. nursing process 3. MORAL - decision making model (Crisham, 1985)
how many days after feeding remove she dies?
13
how many malpractice case every year?
17,000
How many judges in her case?
19
What year her husband want to remove feeding tube?
1998
how many percent of pt show self of wareness when he tested?
20%
What is the minimum hours needs to complete before becoming CNA?
75 hours
Medicare
>65
What delegation requires?
trust
Chaos Theory
A theory that emphasizes systems processes that produce change, even sudden, rapid change.
Nurse Practice Act is written by who?
ANA
Who has played a key role in developing standards for the nursing profession?
ANA
The first code of ethics for nurses was adopted by who?
ANA (1950, been revised six times)
Who write Nurse Practice Act?
American Nurses Association (ANA)
What document document that will ensure the patient's wishes are carried out?
An advance directive
The Good Samaritan Law is based on what ethical framework?
duty base
fidelity
faithfulness; loyalty; keeping promises
What model of pt care is assigned by task rather than pt?
functional nursing
Transitioning nurse from caregiver to ___
Care integrator
Benchmarking
Comparing an organization's practices, processes, and products against the world's best.
Which of the following creates the potential for successful delegation as emphasized by the National Council State Board of Nursing?
Effective communication
Which of the following are delegation errors made by nurse leaders?
Failure to provide adequate directions Failure to release control of task Failure to delegate Failure to provide clear directions Failure to follow up
HIPAA stands for
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
What is the first survey of pt's perspective of hospital care called?
Hospital Customer Assessment of Healthcare Provider and Sytems
A patient on a busy neurosurgical unit who just returned from surgery requires neurological checks every hour, but the nurse is too busy to do it and delegates this task to the unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP). What error in delegation has the nurse made?
Improper delegation
A nurse informs the nurse leader that it would be beneficial to delegate more to the UAP, but the nurse leader is reluctant to do so, stating, "Whenever I do, they always come back with so many questions. I need them to just do it!" What kind of delegation error is the nurse making?
Improperly delegating
A registered nurse on a busy hospital unit is responsible for several tasks that require clear and accurate communication. For which task should the nurse use the SBAR technique for communication?
Informing a health care provider about a change in a patient's health status
Who come check the hospital?
Joint Commission
What case manager uses?
MAP (multidisciplinary action plans): critical pathway and nursing care plan
What type of hospital needs to have accreditation?
Magnent status
Who facilitates with high nurses satisfaction?
Magnet status
MORAL
Massage the problem Outline options Review criteria and resolve Affirm position and act Look back. Evaluate the decision making
CMS is a regulatory organization for
Medicare and Medicaid
What private non profit organization that accredits managed care organizations, also developed the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) to compare quality of care in managed care organization?
National Commitee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
A nurse manager has a high turnover rate of assistant managers in the unit. The current assistant manager states to the manager, "I may not be the right fit for this position. I can't keep up with the amount of work and delegated tasks." What delegation error is the manager making?
Overdelegating
What minor baseball team does Studer own?
Pensacola Blue Wahoos
Proof required to be found guity is
Preponderance of the evidence
A nurse is struggling with time management and thinks it might help alleviate stress and strengthen leadership skills if some tasks are delegated to unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP). What would be important for the nurse to consider when delegating to UAP?
Qualifications of the person who will carry out the task What can and can't be delegated safely
What is "the compact"?
RN maybe licensed in one state and practice in another state within compact
What happen to Terri?
She had a cardiac arrest and led her to have persistent vegetative state d/t lack of O2
Nursing licensure is a privilege and not a right? T/F
True
A nurse has begun working in a new state and is unsure whether tasks involving a patient's intravenous line can be delegated to a licensed professional nurse/licensed vocational nurse (LPN/LVN). What is the best source for identifying whether this task can be delegated?
The state's Nurse Practice Act (NPA)
Root cause analysis or critical event analysis
helps to identify the process of error and to make sure that it does not reoccur.
What is the disadvantage of team nursing?
improper implementation
What is sigma?
is a stastical measurement that reflects how well a product or process is performing
Benchmarking
is the process of measuring products, practices, and services against best performing organizations as a tool for identifying desired standards of organizational performance. In doing so, organizations can determine how and why their performance differs from exemplar organizations, and use the exemplar organizations as role models for standard development and performance improvement.
What is the role of CMS?
measuring quality in health care including pay for performance
The word for "reason for organization's existence"?
mission
What difference btw non-profit vs profit?
non-profit dont pay taxes
Paternalism
one individual assumes the right to make decisions for another
System Theory
organized (structure, technology, people, environment)
Organizing Patient Care is based on what?
patient acuity
the word for "expresses the values and belief's that members of the organization hold true"?
philosophy
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, self-actualization
What is "involve helping others to grow and self-actualize" called?
advocacy
Joint Commission
an independent, not-for-profit organization that evaluates and accredits healthcare organizations
Best practices
are the determination of what type of process produces the best results after gathering information from multiple sources
The nurse at a long-term care facility is considering whether to delegate some tasks to nursing assistive personnel (NAP). Before doing so, the nurse must:
be familiar with the NAP's knowledge, skills and experience.
What model of pt care focuses on individual pt rather than population of clients?
case management
ED or clinical associated to the hospital has better funding?
clinical bc it gives better access of care
Crisham's MORAL decision-making model begins with
collect data about the ethical problem
The word for "articulated goal to which the organization aspires"?
vision
Frequent causes of claims against nurses?
• Inadequate charting. • Inadequate communication with physician or supervisors about changes in client conditions. • Leaving potentially harmful items within client reach. • Unattended patient falls. • Inaccurate counting of operative instruments and sponges. • Misidentifying patients for medications, surgeries, tests.