The nurse makes an effort to provide high-quality care to patients by obtaining and analyzing the best available scientific research. This activity demonstrates an important component of which of the following?
A) Evidence-based nursing
B) Medical justification
C) Nursing data synthesis
D) Scientific nursing
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Evidence-based nursing practice requires a conscientious and continuing effort to provide high-quality care to patients by obtaining and analyzing the best available scientific evidence from research. Then, the scientific evidence is integrated with the nurse's clinical expertise and the patient's preferences and values to yield "best practices" for a patient with a particular disease process or health problem.
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a. Learn from sentinel events that have occurred in other facilities and incorporate their recommendations for prevention into your own facility's policies. b. Notify hospitals that if a sentinel event occurs during an "alert," the hospital will be subject to withdrawal of Medicare and Medicaid certification and reimburse-ment. c. Prevent a near-miss from occurring. d. Assist hospitals to find national standardized performance measures to benchmark themselves against other similar hospitals.
A client, paralyzed from the neck down, is constantly criticizing the nurses who can do nothing to please her. What is the most appropriate nursing diagnosis for this client?
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A nurse is teaching nursing students about the use of alpha-adrenergic antagonists. Which statement by a student indicates the need for further teaching?
a. "Alpha-adrenergic antagonists block al-pha1 receptors on arterioles and veins." b. "Dilation of arterioles has a direct effect on arterial pressure." c. "Dilation of veins by alpha-adrenergic antagonists improves cardiac output." d. "Venous dilation by alpha-adrenergic an-tagonists indirectly lowers arterial pres-sure."