To Achieve Nurse-Sensitive Care Standards Developed by the NQF,you Advocate

question 20

Multiple Choice

To achieve Nurse-Sensitive Care Standards developed by the NQF,you advocate for which of the following in your health facility?

• A) Evidence-based practice to reduce the prevalence of pressure sores
• B) Implementation of informatics at the bedside
• C) Staff-manager conferences to review reporting of adverse medical events
• D) Patient councils to review food, recreation, and nurse-patient relations

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Definitions:

Learned Helplessness

A situation where someone feels unable to control their life, due to a traumatic incident or repeated failures.

Contingency Blocking

A phenomenon in classical conditioning where a previously learned association prevents the acquisition of a new association because the first stimulus is a better predictor of the outcome.

Response Generalization

The process by which a conditioned response is made in reaction to stimuli that are similar to the original conditioned stimulus.

Learned Helplessness

Learned helplessness is a condition in which a person suffers from a sense of powerlessness, arising from a traumatic event or persistent failure to succeed, leading to a belief that one's actions have no effect on the outcome.