Professional Nursing Practice
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Course Introduction
Professional Nursing Practice explores the foundational concepts, standards, and responsibilities that underpin nursing as a regulated profession. The course introduces students to the roles and ethical obligations of nurses within diverse healthcare settings, emphasizing patient-centered care, evidence-based practice, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Key topics include legal frameworks, communication skills, cultural competence, critical thinking, and advocacy in nursing. Through theoretical and practical components, students develop professional identity, leadership abilities, and the capacity to deliver safe, high-quality care that meets the complex needs of individuals, families, and communities.
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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) The director of nursing is considering using Amer's Hybrid Model of Change to improve the quality of patient care. When analyzing this model, what information will the director need to make an objective assessment of the current situation?
A) Number of nursing staff
B) Staffing budget
C) Current culture
D) Turn-over rates Correct
Answer: C
Q2) 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
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Chapter 3: Transition to Practice: an Essential Element of
Quality and Safety
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Q1) The nurse manager identifies that an increase in medication errors and adverse patient incidents are occurring with the new nurses. What would be happening with the new nursing staff that is causing this increase in patient safety issues?
A) Participation in a year-long transition to practice program continues
B) Participation in a formal orientation program has ended
C) More rigid disciplinary procedures for novice nurses
D) Less rigid disciplinary procedures for novice nurses Correct
Answer: B
Q2) During an exit interview a graduate nurse says that the only feedback received during the last 3. months occurred at the end of the probationary period. What would be the consequences of not providing ongoing feedback to new graduates during the transition period?
A) Practice will not improve
B) Communication will suffer
C) Confidential information will be shared
D) No ability to learn how to think like a nurse Correct
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Power, Empowerment, and Change in Nursing and Health Care
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Q1) The nursing staff was asked through a survey to describe what activities would improve their feelings of empowerment. What choices would the nurses select to increase feelings of being empowered? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Increased tenure
B) Approachable leader
C) Available opportunities
D) Work is valued by others
E) Accepting duties as assigned 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
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Chapter 5: Quality and Safety Education Strategies
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Q1) The nurse is utilizing the 6.0.-second situation assessment tool to determine which patient to see first after morning report. Which patient would be considered the most critical?
A) Patient respiratory rate 8 and lethargic
B) Patient without intravenous lines wearing oxygen
C) Patient lying on right side in bed responds to verbal stimuli
D) Patient in bed with both side rails down talking on the telephone 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 nurse manager is designing an evaluation based upon the number of metrics achieved. Which type of evaluation is the manager designing?
A) Goal
B) Metric
C) Process
D) Outcome Correct
Q2) A healthcare organization did not consider all of the stakeholders' goals when establishing annual metrics for performance. What can occur when data is being collected about goal achievement?
A) Waste time and effort
B) No goals will be achieved
C) Too much data will be collected
D) Metrics will be positively skewed Correct
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Chapter 7: Interprofessional Team Building
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Q1) The nurse manager is working with an architect to physically redesign a patient care area. The new design removes a central nurse's station and creates patient care pods. How will the redesign of the care area influence team development?
A) Facilities collaboration
B) Segregates care givers
C) Maximizes care giver focus
D) Reduces redundancy Correct
Q2) Interprofessional team meetings have been occurring sporadically on a patient care area. Which observation indicates that these meetings need to be reinforced to support quality patient care?
A) Nurses assisting each other with patient care activities
B) Nursing assistive personnel (NAP) volunteering to work extra shifts
C) Nurses sharing results of committee projects during routine staff meetings
D) Nurses complaining that physicians are too busy to address patient care issues Correct
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Chapter 8: Transforming Care at the Bedside Tcab
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Q1) 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
Q2) The staff on a Transforming Care at the Bedside unit is implementing a morning huddle. Which outcomes indicate an improvement in patient-centered care? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Improved communication
B) Less waste of patient care supplies
C) Less time spent questioning orders
D) Less time spent locating physicians
E) Early identification of patient safety issues 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) A healthcare organization is sponsoring a seminar that will focus on the use of robotics when providing patient care. How would the organization encourage nurses to attend this educational program? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Emphasize the reduction in staffing needs with the robots.
B) Diagramming the salary cost savings with the use of robots.
C) Explain how the robot will streamline nursing tasks.
D) Discuss how the robot helps increase productivity.
E) Review the impact of the robot on efficiency. Correct
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Chapter 10: Patient-Centered Care
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Q1) A patient with arthritis asks the nurse for pain medication. The patient is sitting in bed laughing and talking with family members. What would the nurse assess to support this patient's pain management needs? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) The patient's previous experiences with pain
B) The family's response to illness and pain
C) The cultural meaning associated with pain
D) The spiritual meaning associated with pain
E) The patient's home environment and activities Correct
Q2) The nurse is planning to implement steps within Leiningers' Wheel of Culture. Which factors will the nurse identify as influencing care expressions, patterns, and practices? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Technology
B) Economics
C) Kinship
D) Politics
E) Diet Correct
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Chapter 11: Quality Health Care, Policy and Law
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Q1) The nurse is providing a patient with the document Patient Care Partnership. What is included as a focus of this document?
A) To be free of torture
B) Receive fair treatment
C) The right to have a name
D) Help with billing issues 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) 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
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Chapter 12: Future-Focused Quality Nursing
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Q1) A nurse in graduate school wants to secure a position as a nurse executive upon graduation. Which action would the nurse use to learn more about the work of a nurse executive?
A) Ask to sit on a committee lead by a nurse executive.
B) Study literature about nursing economics.
C) Learn the budgeting process.
D) Read articles about the role. Correct
Q2) After attending a religious service a group of parishioners ask a nurse to explain the importance of restricting salt intake in the diet. How would this request support the nursing profession's need to share information?
A) Provides an opportunity to respond spontaneously with the public
B) Catapults the profession of nursing in the media
C) Demonstrates the knowledge base of nurses
D) Explains nursing's basic compassion Correct
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