Question | Answer |
Nurses delegate certain nursing tasks and activities to unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP), such as? | patient care technicians (PCTs) or nursing assistants (NAs). |
What is the process of transferring to a competent person the authority to perform a
selected nursing task or activity in a selected patient care situation. | Delegation |
Five rights are followed when delegating and supervising a nursing task or activity to a UAP: Which are? | Right task
Right circumstances
Right person
Right communication
Right supervision |
The nurse is always responsible for the task or activity that is? | delegated. |
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is the integration of best current evidence to make decisions about patient care. It considers the patient’s? | preferences and values, as well as one’s own clinical expertise. |
Quality Improvement (QI), sometimes called evidence based practice improvement (EBPI), ensures patient? | SAFETY by systematically reviewing procedures, processes, and care to continuously improve the care and safety for patients. |
The KSAs have specific tools to measure QI, including? | root cause analysis and impacting changes in care
processes. |
Nurses are active participants in the systematic QUALITY IMPROVEMENT process in their? | health care agency. |
Informatics involves using information and technology to? | communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making. |
INFORMATICS and technology are used for patient? | documentation, electronic data access, and health care resource tracking. |
Nurses play a key role in promoting SAFETY and preventing errors, including? | “missed nursing care.” |