Advanced Nursing Practice
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Course Introduction
Advanced Nursing Practice is designed to equip experienced nurses with the expertise necessary for expanded clinical roles and leadership in healthcare settings. This course explores evidence-based practice, advanced clinical assessment, diagnostic reasoning, and therapeutic interventions across diverse patient populations. Emphasis is placed on clinical decision-making, interprofessional collaboration, and advocacy to improve patient outcomes. Students will also examine healthcare policy, ethical issues, and the integration of technology in practice, enabling them to contribute effectively to the advancement of nursing and healthcare delivery systems.
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Quality and Safety for Transformational Nursing Core Competencies 1st Edition by Kim Amer
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Chapter 1: Risk and Threats to Safe Quality Care in Hospital Settings
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Q1) The nurse manager is identifying methods to improve the quality of care for a patient care area. Which actions would help the nurse manager achieve this outcome?
Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Awareness of safety issues
B) Study the processes of care
C) Focus on patient-centered care
D) Create a learning environment
E) Improve communication between patient and provider Correct
Answer: A,B,C,E
Q2) The health care organization is investigating ways to reduce the number of medication errors. Which action has been identified as a strategy to dramatically reduce medication errors?
A) Bar coding medication delivery
B) Locking medication carts when not in use
C) Restricting access to controlled substances
D) Sharing medication carts when preparing doses Correct
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Quality and Safety Models
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Q1) After reading a journal article about a patient care approach, the nurse implemented the actions, which resulted in safe quality care. Which of Smith's levels of change did this nurse implement?
A) Effective
B) Efficient
C) Different
D) Copying Correct
Answer: D
Q2) A Shared Governance committee is working on a project to improve the quality of patient care provided in a major city hospital. What would the committee use as the definition of quality?
A) Lack of errors
B) Lack of falls
C) No medication errors
D) Defined by the patient Correct
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Transition to Practice: an Essential Element of
Quality and Safety
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Q1) A hospital administrator is meeting with the vice president of nursing to discuss the implementation of a transition to practice program for nurses. What reasons would the vice president of nursing explain as evidence to support this program? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Reduces medication errors
B) Reduces adverse events
C) Combat the expertise gap
D) Reduce turnover rate
E) Improves salary levels Correct
Answer: A,B,C,D
Q2) The nursing leader is reviewing a transition to practice program implemented in Ireland. What is a characteristic of this program?
A) Occurs during the students' last year of school
B) Provides the new graduate with a provisional license
C) Incorporates an on-line mentorship program
D) Includes a voluntary year-long transition program Correct
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Power, Empowerment, and Change in Nursing and Health Care
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Q1) A healthcare organization is planning to apply for Magnet recognition. How will this status affect the nursing staff?
A) Provide control over the practice environment
B) Increase budgeting for the nursing department
C) Equalize the nurse-physician relationship
D) Identify issues of staff turnover Correct
Q2) The nurse is reviewing a journal article that focuses on the concept of intersectionality. What will the nurse identify as the relevancy of this concept to patient safety and quality care?
A) Strengthens the nurse-patient relationship
B) Improves nurse-physician communication
C) Identifies patient safety and quality issues
D) Explains how all unjust systems are related Correct
Q3) The nurse has decided to apply to graduate school. In what way will additional formal education support the nurse's future power?
A) Work in a position of formal power
B) Improve the health of oppressed people
C) Learn the budgeting process
D) Learn to complete a risk assessment Correct
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Chapter 5: Quality and Safety Education Strategies
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Q1) The nurse manager is identifying areas in which excessive waste occurs on a patient care area. Which areas would the nurse manager include on this list? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Moving wheelchairs
B) Walking to two areas to get supplies
C) Stocking one dozen of a patient care item that is rarely used
D) Assessing new admissions within 1 hour of arrival to the unit
E) Wasting packaged sterile gloves because of tears in the outer package Correct
Q2) During interdisciplinary rounds a patient states confusion regarding the purpose of prescribed medications. Which action would support quality patient care?
A) The nurse stating that the purpose of all medications will be reviewed before discharge
B) The physician stating that medications are prescribed to help with the patient's problems
C) The pharmacist stating the actions and purpose of the medication and what to expect
D) The physical therapist stating the medication has to be taken after therapy for effectiveness Correct
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Chapter 6: Evaluating a Program: Metrics and Stakeholders
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Q1) The Human Resources department is planning staff nurse interviews to measure the success of the new employee benefit package. Which type of questions would be the most beneficial for the human resources staff to use for these interviews?
A) Summary
B) Open-ended
C) Calculations
D) Fill in the blank Correct
Q2) An organization is referring to the Institute of Medicine's goals when identifying metrics to measure patient safety. Which goals would the organization most likely select as metrics? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Equitable
B) Morbidity
C) Length of stay
D) Bedside manner
E) Number of staff Correct
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Chapter 7: Interprofessional Team Building
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Q1) The nurse manager is determining reasons why the goal of safe quality patient care is not being achieved. Which factors would the manager identify as deterrents to safe quality care? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Authoritative attitude of physicians toward nurses
B) Poor integration about common concepts of care
C) Minimization of the nurses' role in patient care
D) Adherence to procedures is substandard
E) Poor communication Correct
Q2) The nurse manager is working with the head of the medical department to structure daily conferences with nursing, physicians, and pharmacy. What will the manager explain as the purpose of these conferences? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Validate nursing concerns
B) Minimize the hierarchy
C) Support safe systems
D) Share information
E) Increase openness Correct
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Chapter 8: Transforming Care at the Bedside Tcab
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Q1) The nursing staff is working through the rapid cycle change process about a problem with supplies that occurs when changing patients' dressings. Which activity exemplifies the implementation of a solution?
A) Generic dressing change supplies placed on a mobile cart
B) Central Distribution contacted regarding supply cart stocking times
C) Staff explains the importance of having supplies when they are needed
D) Staff agrees the use of a mobile cart improved the dressing change process Correct
Q2) A hospital administrator is planning to implement Transforming Care at the Bedside in a healthcare organization. Which outcomes will the administrator expect after the implementation of this process? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Increased reimbursement
B) Reduction in patient falls
C) Less cost to replace staff
D) Better outcomes with codes
E) Improved physician satisfaction Correct
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Chapter 9: Informatics and Nursing: Using Technology to Improve Quality
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Q1) A healthcare organization is applying for federal funding to finance a system-wide electronic health record system. What criteria will the organization need to demonstrate prior to receiving these funds? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) The system is able to track health data over time.
B) Implement a system that is integrated into the care delivery system.
C) Patients and families are using the electronic health system at home.
D) Staff training on the use of the system has been planned and provided.
E) There has to be enough technical, legal, and financial support to maintain system integrity. Correct
Q2) An organization desires to use technology to improve the quality of patient care. Which criterion would be important for the organization to keep in mind when previewing technologies?
A) Use of the technology to make decisions
B) Ability of the technology to track outcomes
C) Level that the technology can replace human judgment
D) Substitution of the technology for basic caring concepts Correct
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Chapter 10: Patient-Centered Care
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Q1) The nurse is identifying interventions appropriate for the care of a patient from a non-English speaking culture. What would the nurse use to help plan this patient's care?
A) Ask other nurses for suggestions.
B) Review criteria for culturally sensitive care.
C) Analyze care from the patient's perspective.
D) Discuss the patient's care with the physician. Correct
Q2) The nurse wants to ensure that interventions for a patient include the dimensions of person-centered care. Which interventions would the nurse include to meet this goal?
Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Teaching the patient side effects of prescribed medications
B) Talking with the dietitian about the patients' food preferences
C) Inquiring about the patient's plan to pay for health care expenses
D) Discussing community resources for the patient to use when at home
E) Asking the family if they would like to observe a dressing change Correct
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Chapter 11: Quality Health Care, Policy and Law
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Q1) A Shared Governance committee is identifying ways to improve the safety of patient care. What goals will the committee members keep in mind when making these decisions? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Achieve safe staffing levels.
B) Build in break times for all staff.
C) Follow evidence-based care processes.
D) Examine increasing the use of technology.
E) Recognize that disciplinary action is an option. Correct
Q2) The family of a resident in a skilled nursing facility is requesting to transfer the patient because of unsafe nursing care. What unsafe nursing practices did the family observe? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Nurses sitting in the nurses' station and patient call lights on
B) Breakfast trays being passed by staff wearing clean gloves
C) Inability to find a nurse to help with a patient problem
D) Dirty floors and overflowing trash bins and containers
E) Dressing supplies on the window seals Correct
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Chapter 12: Future-Focused Quality Nursing
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Q1) The nurse is identifying professional goals to support changes in the healthcare industry. Which trends would the nurse use to help establish these goals? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Identify opportunities for lifelong learning.
B) Recognize innovations that need nursing expertise.
C) Read the latest progress on access to health care for all.
D) Participate in activities with people from different cultures.
E) Sustain employment during periods of volatility in the industry. Correct
Q2) A staff nurse is planning to apply for a nurse manager position. Which behaviors would the nurse prepare to demonstrate during the interview process? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Clear communication
B) Good listening skills
C) Self-confidence
D) Self-motivation
E) Persistence Correct
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