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IV Therapeutics 4th
Chpt. 1 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A review of care using defined criteria. | Audit |
| Structured, comparative trending of performances that represent "best known" practices and identification of goals against which all other levels of performance are measured. | Benchmarking |
| Laws that affect the legal rights of private persons or corporations | Civil Law |
| Integrated behaviors derived from an explicit set of desired outcomes | Competency |
| System developed by Clinical Center Nursing Department at the National Institutes of Health to identify, describe, validate, and doucment the nursing competencies required for safe and effective nursing practice. | Competency validation program (CVP) |
| Being capable or able; knowing how to function. | Competent |
| Created to assist organizations in improving the quality of care. | Continuous quality improvement (CQI) |
| Offense against the general public; effects welfare of society as a whole. | Criminal law |
| Elements necessary to define and measure quality. | Criteria |
| Gathering information through interviewing, obbserving, and inspecting. | Data Collection |
| Characteristics of what is done and how well it is done. | Dimensions of performance |
| A recording, in written or printed form, containing original, official, or legal information. | Documentation |
| Inspecion, examination, and quality judgement | Evaluation |
| Process by which nurses make clincal decisions using the best available evidence, their clinical expertise, and patient preferences. | Evidence-based practice |
| Witness from the same professional specialty explaining to the court what the standard of care should be in the situation at hand. | Expert testimony |
| Broad statement of a desired outcome. | Goal |
| Carrying out a plan. | Implementation |
| Interference that may affect outcome | Intervention |
| Legally responsible for damages, answerable | Liable |
| Negligent conduct of professional person | Malpractice |
| Not acting in a reasonable or prudent manner. | Negligence |
| Specific statement about the quality of some facet of nursing care. | Nursing standard |
| The result of the performance (or nonperformance) of a function or process(es) | Outcome |
| Thecontinuous study and adaptation of functions and processes of a healthcare organization to increase the probability of achieving desired outcomes, and meet pt. needs, or other services. | Performance improvement (PI) |
| A goal-directed, interrelated series of actions, events, mechanisms, or steps. | Process |
| The determination of the degree of excellence through monitoring and evaluating to detect and resolve problems | Quality assurance (QA) |
| An ongoing, systematic process for monitoring, evaluating, and problem solving. | Quality management |
| Process that centers on identification analysis, treatment, and evaluation of real and potential hazards. | Risk management |
| Focuses on the recipient of care and describes outcomeds of care that patients can expect to receive. | Standards of care |
| Focuses on the provider and defines the activities and behavior needed to achieve patient outcomes. | Standards of practice |
| Written laws enacted by the legislature | Statutes |
| Standard that refers to condtions and mechanisms that provide support for the delivery of care (e.g., policy and resources) | Structure |
| Private wrong, by act or omission, that can result in a civil action by the harmed person. | Tort |
| Management system fostering continuously improving performance at every level of every function by focusing on maximization of customer satisfaction; focus is on process. | Total quality management (TQM) |
| Documentation of an incident that requires action because of potential or implied consequences. | Unusual occurrence report |
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