Unit 8 Study Guide

What are considered clinical guidelines?

Any research that uses data that do not indicate ordinal values

Quality improvement analyzes current protocols and their associated outcomes

Quality is the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase

Scientific Method is a natural science since the 17th century

Measurable and objective data sensitive to changes in performance generic or specific standards

Root cause analysis is problem solving to identify the root cause of faults

What is Qualitative Research?

Peer Review is a professional critique based on a colleague's work.

When trying to determine what type of research study is described, what section of the article gives you the best info?

What are quality improvements/process?

Why would EBP be important to a nurse?

Quality management does not evaluate medical and nursing processes for quality and effectiveness

Systematically developed statements about a plan of care for specific set of clinical circumstances

An unexpected occurence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury

What are the key elements of quality improvement in nursing?

How does benchmarking work?

Evidenced based practice is a problem solving approach to clinical practice

Hypothesis are not predictions made about the relationship between study variables.

Outcome standards focus on performance of a process

Florence Nightingale initiated EBP

Evaluate or check by comparison with a standard

What are sources of non-research based sources of evidence?

What is utilization of review?

Quantitative Research is the process of collecting and analyzing numerical data

Process standards focus on steps used to lead to particular outcomes

What are federal initiatives aimed at for quality improvement in healthcare?

What do quality management programs include?

Seeks to produce more meaningful applicable results

Knowledge based trigger is a question that arises as a result of new information based on a topic

A randomized controlled trial is a type of Quantitative Research study?

What is the response to sentinel events?

One you face while caring for a patient or a trend on the nursing unit

Why is it important to consider human factors input in quality improvement strategies?

What should be considered when implementing quality improvement strategies?