Nursing Core Competencies
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Course Introduction
This course provides a comprehensive overview of foundational nursing core competencies essential for professional practice. Students will explore key areas such as patient-centered care, clinical decision-making, evidence-based practice, communication, teamwork, ethical and legal standards, and health promotion. Emphasis is placed on developing practical skills, professional attitudes, and a holistic approach to patient care, preparing students to deliver safe, competent, and compassionate nursing interventions across diverse healthcare settings.
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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 department of nursing is planning ways to create the ideal work environment for the staff. Which action would support this plan?
A) Pay for excellence
B) Mandatory overtime
C) Maximum 16-hour shifts
D) Floating to other care area Correct
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Quality and Safety Models
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Q1) A healthcare organization is striving to improve the quality of patient care; however, the medical director is opposed to making changes. What action could a nurse manager take to help improve quality on one patient care area?
A) Implement multidisciplinary meetings.
B) Encourage nursing staff to follow policies.
C) Remind care givers to thoroughly document.
D) Identify physician issues that are problematic. Correct
Answer: A
Q2) A preceptor is helping a new staff nurse improve communication with physician staff members. What approach would the preceptor use to help the nurse develop consistency and objectivity when communicating patient care issues with physicians?
A) COPA
B) SBAR
C) Evidence-based practice
D) Continuous quality improvement Correct
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Transition to Practice: an Essential Element of
Quality and Safety
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Q1) The nurse manager is analyzing why the number of medication errors and patient safety issues has significantly increased over the early summer months. What would be the reason for this increase? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Experiencing a patient care problem for the first-time
B) New nurses not being aware of the big picture
C) Extreme disciplinary action by the preceptors
D) Lack of knowledge about unit work flows
E) Novices assisting novices Correct
Answer: A,B,D,E
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) 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
Q2) The nurse manager is struggling with the issue of power within a healthcare organization. Which observations contribute to this manager's perception of power? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Nurse-to-patient ratio increasing over the last several months
B) Increase in the number of patients developing nosocomial infections
C) Staff willing to work on projects to improve the quality of patient care
D) Limited numbers of nursing leaders in positions of authority within the organization
E) Processes that support the needs of the physician over the needs of the patient or nurse Correct
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Chapter 5: Quality and Safety Education Strategies
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Q1) The preceptor provides a graduate nurse with a tool to self-assess the nurse's knowledge on teamwork and collaboration. Which criteria would be included on this tool?
A) Describe impact of own communication style on others
B) Initiate a plan for self-development as a team member
C) Value teamwork and the relationships upon which it is based
D) Delineate general categories of error and hazards in care Correct
Q2) 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
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Chapter 6: Evaluating a Program: Metrics and Stakeholders
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Q1) The nursing staff has received training on a new process to reduce intravenous access line infections. When would the staff development trainer evaluate the effectiveness of this instruction?
A) Immediately after the class
B) The next day
C) In two days
D) In a week Correct
Q2) The nurse manager wants to use a questionnaire to gather data about a metric. What could be done to determine the reliability of the questions on this evaluation tool?
A) Share the questionnaire with other nurses who are content experts.
B) Ask the staff development department to analyze the questions.
C) Use the test with different people and match the responses.
D) Examine the consistency of repeat findings. Correct
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Chapter 7: Interprofessional Team Building
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Q1) The nurse is using electronic communication to notify a physician who is attending an off-site meeting about the status of a patient. Which actions would the nurse include when communicating electronically?
A) Be clear and concise.
B) Use exclamation points.
C) Type in all capital letters.
D) Type in shorthand. Correct
Q2) The nurse manager has been implementing strategies to improve the communication between nurses and physicians. Which outcome indicates that these strategies have been effective?
A) Physicians responding to pages sometime during the day
B) Resident physicians arriving on time for interdisciplinary rounds
C) Nurses making excuses to patients for delays in physician assessment of problems
D) Nurses calling the pharmacy repeatedly for missed medication doses in the medication cart Correct
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Chapter 8: Transforming Care at the Bedside Tcab
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Q1) The nursing staff on a patient care area wants to implement a change to a care process. What role will the nurse manager have with the implementation of this change?
A) Discuss the change with the hospital administrator.
B) Make sure all nursing staff is engaged in the process.
C) Expect the nursing staff to make the change independently.
D) Obtain permission for the change from the medical director. Correct
Q2) The nursing staff working on a Transforming Care at the Bedside unit is implementing a test of change. Which is a characteristic of this test?
A) All staff implements the change immediately.
B) The change is implemented by day shift only.
C) The change is implemented for at least a month.
D) The outcome from the change is discussed at a biannual meeting. Correct
Q3) The nurse manager, implementing Transforming Care at the Bedside, wants to improve value-added processes. Why would the manager ask nurses to participate in this process?
A) Nurses have the most time.
B) Nurses spend the most time in non-care related activities.
C) Nurses know which staff wastes the most time.
D) Nurses know what the physicians want. Correct
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Chapter 9: Informatics and Nursing: Using Technology to Improve Quality
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Q1) A hospital administrator is meeting with the information technology department about the recent implementation of an electronic health record in the facility. The nursing department is having the most difficulty with the implementation. What can be done to help the nurses?
A) Repeat the orientation to the system.
B) Accelerate the training to the nurses.
C) Review the status of the phase-in program.
D) Encourage the use of the system without support. Correct
Q2) A graduate student in informatics is reviewing topics for a scholarly paper. Which topic would focus on safety with information systems?
A) Ease of implementation of an electronic health record in a skilled nursing facility
B) Changes in the number of medication errors after the implementation of an electronic health record
C) Effectiveness of technology support personnel during the implementation of an electronic health record
D) Characteristics of learners who demonstrate ease of use after training on an electronic health record Correct
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Chapter 10: Patient-Centered Care
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Q1) The nurse is coordinating the discharge of an older patient with chronic renal failure. The patient's spouse is disabled and the patient can no longer drive to dialysis. What would be a goal for this patient's care?
A) Analyzing the patient's financial resources
B) Making an individualized plan of care
C) Encouraging family-to-family support
D) Designing flexible health care Correct
Q2) The nurse is caring for an older patient who is in the intensive care unit for sepsis. The youngest daughter can only visit with the patient in the evenings after visiting hours have ended. What can the nurse do to support family-centered care for the patient and daughter?
A) Provide permission for the daughter to visit the patient after visiting hours.
B) Encourage that the daughter call the patient on the telephone during the day.
C) Explain to the patient that the daughter can visit once intensive care is no longer needed.
D) Ensure the daughter that the patient is being well cared for and not to worry about visiting. Correct
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Chapter 11: Quality Health Care, Policy and Law
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Q1) The nurse observes a physician provide twice the recommended dose of pain medication to a patient with a terminal illness. What should the nurse do about this situation?
A) Ask the physician why the medication was provided.
B) Report the physician to the medical director.
C) Focus on the best response for the patient.
D) Do nothing. Correct
Q2) The nurse is aware of a practice that places patients at risk for infection. What would be the major reason for the nurse to blow the whistle on this care provider?
A) Cost
B) Patient advocacy
C) Overuse of antibiotics
D) Extending hospitalization Correct
Q3) Why would a nurse that is aware of an unsafe practice being conducted by another nurse hesitate to report this observation?
A) Someone else can report the observation
B) No time to find someone to report it to
C) Could inhibit trust and question loyalty
D) Not important since it did not harm the patient 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) The staff nurse volunteers to participate on an interdisciplinary team to collaborate on a new care delivery approach. What benefits will this nurse experience by participating with this team? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Reduce time for patient care
B) Improve promotion status
C) Professional growth
D) Expand networking
E) Job satisfaction Correct
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