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What is a crucial step in the assessment phase of the nursing process related to patient education?
What is the primary purpose of assessing a patient's motivation to learn?
What is a key factor in the analysis phase of the nursing process related to patient education?
What is the primary focus of the planning phase of the nursing process related to patient education?
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What is an essential aspect of setting priorities in the planning phase of the nursing process related to patient education?
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What is a key consideration in the implementation phase of the nursing process related to patient education?
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What is an example of teamwork and collaboration in patient education?
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What is a potential source of educational materials for patient education?
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Which leadership style focuses on change and innovation through team development?
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What is a primary goal of servant leadership in nursing?
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Which of the following is NOT a standard of the Magnet Recognition Program?
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What is a key component of patient- and family-centered care?
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What is the primary focus of case management in nursing?
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What is a key benefit of shared decision making in nursing?
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What is the primary role of nursing leaders in patient- and family-centered care?
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What is a key aspect of professional development in the Magnet Recognition Program?
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What is the primary purpose of applying the nursing process in clinical care coordination?
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What is the main benefit of using SBARR in effective team communication?
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What is the primary focus of knowledge building for nursing students?
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What is the primary difference between a professional nurse and an assistive personnel (AP)?
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What is the primary purpose of using a model for clinical judgment in nursing practice?
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What primarily influences a nurse's clinical judgments?
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What is the primary benefit of continual evaluation in clinical care coordination?
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What is the primary purpose of applying critical thinking in nursing practice?
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What is the primary goal of applying critical thinking during patient interaction?
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Which level of communication involves interaction with an audience?
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What is the term for the motivator in the circular transactional model of communication?
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What is the term for the factors within both the sender and receiver that influence communication?
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What is the term for the perceived or interpreted meaning of a word?
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Which aspect of verbal communication refers to the appropriate speed or pace?
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What is the term for the characteristics, facial expression, and manner of dress and grooming that convey meaning in nonverbal communication?
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What is the term for the process of encoding and decoding messages?
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What is the primary purpose of maintaining eye contact during patient communication?
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Which of the following zones of personal space is considered the most vulnerable?
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What is the primary goal of motivational interviewing in healthcare?
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Which of the following is an example of lateral violence in the healthcare workplace?
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What is the primary purpose of using gestures in patient communication?
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What is the primary benefit of using SBAR in healthcare communication?
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Study Notes
Nursing Process
- Motivation to learn: identify and define a patient's motivation
- Readiness and ability to learn: determine a patient's cognitive ability to learn
- Environmental factors: assess the environment for any barriers to learning
- Resources for learning: a patient requires the support of family members or significant others
- Health literacy: assess a patient's health literacy before providing instruction
Analysis and Nursing Diagnosis
- Interpret data and cluster assessment findings to form diagnoses that reflect specific learning needs or factors affecting the ability to learn
Planning and Outcomes Identification
- Develop a teaching plan, determine expected outcomes, and involve the patient in selecting learning experiences
- Identify what a patient needs to achieve to obtain a better understanding of a healthcare topic and to better manage illness
- Set priorities: set a patient's learning needs in order of priority
- Timing: consider the timing of teaching material
- Organizing teaching material: obtain educational materials from social workers, etc.
- Teamwork and collaboration: capable of making referrals to other healthcare professionals
Implementation
- Continuously assess the patient's response and judge if it's appropriate to continue instruction, adapt a strategy, or delay
- Create a teaching plan based on a patient's nursing diagnoses
Building a Nursing Team
Empowered Teams
- Transformational leadership: focuses on change and innovation through team development, serves as a mentor for staff, and develops and supports the moral agency of nurses
- Servant leadership: works closely with their team to understand individual members' strengths and weaknesses
Magnet Recognition Program Standards
- Shared decision making
- Leadership
- Safety
- Quality
- Well-being
- Professional development (e.g., in-services, modules, skills, paid school)
- Research and evidence-based
- BSN requirement
Nursing Care Delivery Models
- Patient- and family-centered care
- Dignity and respect: ensuring care is provided based on a patient's and family's knowledge, values, beliefs, and cultural backgrounds
- Information sharing: timely, complete, and accurate information for patients and families to participate in care and decision making
- Participation: patients and families are encouraged and supported in participating in care and decision making
- Collaboration: healthcare leaders collaborate with patients and families in policy and program development, implementation, and evaluation
- Case management
Leadership Skills for Nursing Students
- Clinical care coordination
- Good clinical judgment: using clinical judgment to make clinical decisions through application of the nursing process
- Strong priority setting: acting on priorities, ABC's
- Organization skills: time management, efficient, and effective
- Appropriate use of resources: not wasting resources and asking for help
- Good time management: knowing how, where, and when to manage time
- Continual evaluation: evaluating a patient's condition and progress
- Effective team communication: SBARR (situation, background, assessment, recommendation, readback)
- Appropriate delegation: assigning part of responsibility to another qualified person in a specific situation
- Knowledge building
- Lifelong learning
- Maintaining competency
- Actively pursuing learning opportunities
- Respectfully interacting with professional colleagues
Clinical Judgment in Nursing Practice
- Clinical judgment: observed outcome of critical thinking and decision making
- Clinical decision making: separates professional nurses from technicians or other assistive personnel (AP)
- A model for clinical judgment: helps to explain concepts and explains the many variables involved in making decisions and clinical judgments about patients
- Clinical judgment is influenced more by a nurse's experience and knowledge than by objective data about the situation at hand
- Critical thinking applied during any patient interaction helps to overcome perceptual biases or stereotypes that interfere with accurately perceiving and interpreting messages from others
Communication Process
- Circular transactional model:
- Referent: a motivator
- Sender and receiver: encoding and decoding messages
- Message: content
- Channels: sending and receiving messages through visual, auditory, and tactile senses
- Feedback: the message received
- Interpersonal values/variables: factors within both the sender and receiver that influence communication
- Environment: the setting
Forms of Communication
- Verbal communication:
- Vocabulary
- Denotative (meaning) and connotative (perceived/interpreted meaning)
- Pacing: appropriate speed or pace
- Intonation: tone of voice
- Clarity and brevity: clear and direct
- Timing and relevance: timing is critical, and the patient has to express interest
- Nonverbal communication:
- Personal appearance: characteristics, facial expression, and manner of dress and grooming
- Posture: the way we stand
- Facial expression: being mindful
- Eye contact: maintaining eye contact
- Gestures: emphasizing, punctuating, and clarifying
- Sounds: helping to clarify messages
- Territoriality and personal space: knowing vulnerable, intimate, and public zones
- Zones of personal space:
- Vulnerable zone
- Intimate zone
- Public zone
Professional Nursing Relationships
- Nurse-patient caring relationships: foundation of clinical practice
- Motivational interviewing: technique that encourages patients to share thoughts, goals, beliefs, fears, and concerns to change behavior
- Nurse-family relationships: forming caring relationships with entire families
- Nurse-health care team relationships: effective communication with other healthcare team members affects patient outcomes, patient safety, and the work environment
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Assess a patient's motivation, cognitive ability, and environmental factors to determine their readiness to learn. Identify resources and health literacy for effective instruction.