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statistics for nursing a practical approach
Fundamentals Of Nursing: Standards And Practices 2nd Edition Sue C. DeLaune, Patricia Kelly Ladner - Solutions
What data are available to answer these questions?
What are the client’s strengths?
Has the client indicated a desire for a higher level of wellness in a particular area of function?
Is there a situation in which a problem can develop if preventive measures are not taken?
Is there a situation involving risk factors?
What are some possible causes for the problems?
If so, what are the specific problems?
Are there problems here?
Recording or reporting data
Making initial inferences or impressions
Categorizing or identifying patterns in the data
Organizing data
Validating the data
Collecting data from a variety of sources
Failing to implement and evaluate the proposal appropriately
Failing to articulate a rational solution to the problem or proposed change
Selecting problems or changes that are too general, too complex, or poorly defined
Failing to obtain critical facts, about either the problem or proposed change
Jumping too quickly toward a conclusion before exploring all the aspects of a problem
4. Integration: Incorporating new information and new ways of thinking
3. Exploration: Searching for new ideas, solutions, and/or approaches
2. Appraisal of the situation: Self-examination of one’s underlying assumptions
1. Trigger event: A problem that is reframed as an opportunity for improvement
Self-confidence (belief in own ability to think things through and make appropriate decisions)
Intellectual humility (knowing that one does not have all the answers)
Comfort dealing with ambiguity, uncertainty
Respect for others’ perspectives
Persistence, intellectual courage
Curiosity
Tolerance, open-mindedness, nonjudgmental mind-set
10. Relate the nursing process to the problem-solving method.
9. Identify factors that may influence evaluation.
8. Discuss the types of skills that nurses must possess in order to perform the nursing interventions during the implementation step of the nursing process.
7. List the tasks involved in the outcome identification and planning step of the nursing process.
6. Describe the four types of nursing diagnoses.
5. Describe the components of the assessment step of the nursing process.
4. Relate critical thinking to the nursing process
3. Compare critical thinking and creative thinking.
2. Describe the relationship between ciritical thinking and problem solving and decision making.
1. Identify the components of critical thinking.
5. One challenge encountered in health care today is shorter length of hospital stays. State some specific ways nurses can address this challenge. Note that many of your ideas may already be implemented in certain areas of the health care delivery system.
4. Select three tenets of Nursing’s Agenda for Health Care Reform and state some specific ways for implementing them.
3. Imagine that you are lobbying your state legislators about health care reform. List five points you would present to them.
2. Compare the American and Canadian health care delivery systems in terms of universality, accessibility, and portability.
1. What are some contributing factors to the current status of the health care delivery system?
A primary goal of the nursing profession within the areas of public health, community health, and longterm care is to provide health care services that emphasize prevention and primary health care to clients in these settings and thus help reduce the cost and increase the quality of health care.
For advanced practice nurses to continue to provide access to high quality care, issues such as direct reimbursement for services, prescriptive authority, comprehensive professional liability insurance, autonomy in managed care plans, professional staff privileges in health care facilities, and
The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality aims to identify therapeutic standards for which the health care community can be held accountable.
Nursing’s Agenda for Health Care Reform, written by the American Nurses Association and endorsed by over 70 professional organizations, outlines nursing’s proposals for easing the current problems in health care delivery.
The challenges that the health care delivery system need to overcome are the public’s disillusionment with providers, the public’s loss of control over health care decisions, the decreased use of hospitals and the related impact on quality of care, the change in practice settings, ethical
The cost of health care has been influenced by the oversupply of specialists, a surplus of hospital beds, the passive role assumed by most consumers, and the inequitable financing of health care services.
Health care reform must address the three critical issues of cost, access, and quality of health care services to achieve equity for all Americans.
The primary federal government insurance plans are Medicare, the program that provides health care coverage for the elderly and disabled, and Medicaid, the jointly administered program that provides health care services for the poor.
Managed care plans include health maintenance organizations, preferred provider organizations, and exclusive provider organizations.
Managed care organizations seek to control health care costs by monitoring the delivery of services and restricting access to costly procedures and providers.
Health care in the United States is financed through a combination of both private and public funding.
The health care team is composed of nurses, APRNs, physicians, physician assistants, pharmacists, dentists, dietitians, social workers, therapists, and chaplains.
Health care services are delivered by both the public(official, voluntary, and nonprofit agencies) and private(hospitals, extended care facilities, home health agencies, hospices, outpatient settings, schools, industrial clinics, managed care organizations, community nursing centers, and rural
Continuing focus on quality improvement
The right for individuals to enhance a basic package or expand their choices if they care to purchase that privilege
Managed care dominating as the context for service delivery
The system as a union of both public and private sector resources and services
Federal funding of health care provider education focusing on service to underserved populations and areas
Incentives for individuals who participate in preventive activities
Expectations of third-party payers and providers for clients to assume more personal responsibility for care
More emphasis on disease prevention and health promotion at the workplace
More states using managed care models to deliver services to the medically indigent
Advances in technology with a resultant ability to perform more services in outpatient settings(including the home)
Continued growth in outpatient settings with a greater demand for primary care providers
Increased number of single-parent families, with more children living in poverty
Increasing diversity in the U.S. population
The aging of the U.S. population
Alberta Children’s Hospital in Canada—Nurses here, in 1982, assumed the role of providing health care advice via a telephone triage services (Vollmerhaus, 1999). There are several similar triage services managed by nurses throughout the United States
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing—This school has established a community-based practice that focuses on meeting the needs of frail elderly clients (Naylor & Buhler-Wilkerson, 1999).
North Carolina Maternal and Child Health Migrant Project—Nurses train women in migrant camps to provide health teaching and first aid (Sandhaus, 1998).
Columbia Advanced Practice Nurse Associates (CAPNA)—This practice, established in 1997, collaborates with Columbia University’s medical faculty to provide comprehensive services to clients in midtown Manhattan (Boccuzzi, 1998).
Presence of toxic environmental conditions
Prevalence of overweight and inadequately nourished young people
Underimmunization of infants and children
Emergence of drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis
Appearance of new fatal diseases (e.g., AIDS and the Ebola virus)
Increase of sexually transmitted diseases that were once nearly eradicated (e.g., syphilis and gonorrhea)
Mechanisms must be implemented to protect against catastrophic costs and impoverishment.
A standardized package of essential health care services must be provided and financed through an integration of public and private sources.
The health care system must assure that approriate, effective care is delivered through efficient use of resources.
Health care services must be restructured to create a better balance between the prevailing orientation toward illness and cure and a new commitment to wellness and care.
Consumers must assume more responsibility for their own care and become better informed about the range of providers and potential options for services.
Consumers must be guaranteed direct access to a full range of qualified health care providers who offer their services in a variety of delivery arrangements at sites that are accessible, convenient, and familiar to the consumer.
Consumers must be the central focus of the health care system. Assessment of health care needs must be the determining factor in the ultimate structuring and delivery of programs and services.
Primary health care services must play a very basic and prominent role in service delivery.
All citizens and residents of the United States must have equitable access to essential health care services.
The number of homeless individuals, who are most often denied access to health care, is increasing
The number of people admitted to nursing homes is steadily growing.
The growing elderly population will require more health care services.
Expectations/demands of third-party payers
More services available in outpatient settings
Greater availability of outpatient facilities
Technologic advances
Shorter lengths of stay
Limited access to ancillary services (e.g., child care, transportation)
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