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ATI Module
Managing Client Care (Exam 1)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acuity level | The requirement of nursing services and the amount of nursing time to meet those requirements. Complexity of a client's condition. |
| advocate | A person who pleads on another's behalf. |
| client assignments | Process of dividing responsibility for care of multiple clients among the nursing staff. |
| delegatee | A person whom a task is entrusted to. |
| delegator | A person who entrusts a task to another. |
| discharge planning | Procedure for determining what additional support a client needs in order to be transferred from one care facility to another or home. |
| I-SBAR-R | Acronym for a communication tool to relay relevant client information to other medical professionals: identification, situation, background, assessment, recommendation, read back |
| managing a group of clients | Nursing process of organizing delivery of client's care tasks among a group of people. |
| organizational skills | Activities that allow the nurse to be efficient and accurate in delivering client care such as making a to-do list |
| SMART | Acronym for goal setting: specific, measurable, attainable, realistic/relevant, time-bound. |
| SOAP | Acronym for a documentation tool: subjective, objective, assessment, plan |
| teach back | A technique to determine the client's level of understanding by having the client explain back to the nurse the information that was taught. |
| team nursing | A group of nurses working together to achieve client care tasks. |
| teamwork | The combined action of a group. |
| time management matrix | A tool that divides activities into four quadrants: important, not important, urgent, not urgent. |