Chapter 18: Evaluating

The terms "criteria" and "standard" are often used interchangeably but actually have distinct, separate definitions. "The levels of performance accepted by, and expected of, nursing staff or other health team members" is known as?

Standards

Nurses are involved in many types of evaluation. Which activity is the priority concern for nurses?

Clients and their care

The nurse on a busy acute care floor identifies that several clients with heart failure are being readmitted within 2 weeks of discharge. Which step in performance improvement is the nurse demonstrating?

Discovering a problem

A group of nurses of the orthopedic floor of a hospital wish to improve their clinical performance. The nurse manager suggests a program in which the nurses will evaluate each other and provide feedback for improved performance. The nurses know that this program is termed which of the following?

peer review

The focus of a hospital's current quality assurance program is a comparison between the health status of client's upon admission and at the time of discharge. This form of quality assurance is characteristic of?

Outcome evaluation