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WGU C157 -Essentials of Advanced Nursing Practice Questions and Answers
1.Root Cause Analysis: Examining and learning from a single event,
often cat- astrophic. Using flowcharts and fishbone diagrams. Flow charts can also help the team design new processes.
2.QSEN stands for: Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
3.QSEN and Systems thinking objective: To move away from blaming
individu- als for adverse events and work to correct our systems and processes.
4.QSEN indicates that MSNs should promote systems that: reduce
reliance on memory to make care safer. Examples: Checklists,
worksheets, standard order sets, standardized timeliness, adding fields for documentation in records. These are reminders or prompts.
5.Psychological Safety or Culture of Safety: By reducing the emphasis 1 / 2
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on blame and shame, staff feel safe to report errors. Increased incident reports should result in more opportunities for organization learning.
6.An increased number of incident reports do not mean increased number
of incidences.: This may be an indicator of psychological safety.
7.Advanced Practice Role Key ideas:: Support engagement of team
members: Participate, Facilitate, Collaborate and Negotiate. Effective
communication and leadership. Conflict resolution, shared decision making with patients. Shared gov- ernance with nurses and other staff.Patient centered care. Culture of safety and to think big.
8.Culture of safety: learn about human error and create better systems.
9.Think BIG: process from start to finish. Not just your part. Improving
care for all, not just those in your department or hospital.
10.Essentials of Masters Ed in Nursing: Key Standard. Used to design
MSN curriculum. Used by university surveyors to determine whether accreditation stan- dards have been met.
11.MSN: Should have a deeper understanding of nursing or an
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