Accountable Care Organizations CORRECT ANSWER - Those organizations that, through the Affordable Care Act, will only be rewarded for improving quality
... [Show More] and increasing cost savings. These are organizations in which physicians and hospitals work together to improve outcomes and share in cost savings.
Acuity CORRECT ANSWER - Level of intensity of care required by patients.
Advocacy CORRECT ANSWER - The act of expressing or defending the rights or causes of another.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) CORRECT ANSWER - The national voice for baccalaureate and graduate nursing education. AACN's educational areas, research, federal advocacy, data collection, publications, and special programs work to establish quality standards for nursing education; assists deans and directors to implement those standards; influence the nursing profession to improve health care; and promote public support for professional nursing education, research, and practice.
Autonomy CORRECT ANSWER - The right of individuals to make their own decisions based on informed consent and the lack of coercion; personal freedom and self-determination.
Background Statement CORRECT ANSWER - A brief scenario that provides the information necessary or useful in answering the question. This may also be called the case event.
Beneficence CORRECT ANSWER - Supporting actions that promote good.
Big Data CORRECT ANSWER - Refers to the volume, variety, and rapid accumulation of data, as well as to the analytics being used to evaluate that data for the discovery and communication of patterns within and between data. Also, an accumulation of data that is too large and complex for processing using traditional database management tools.
Case Event CORRECT ANSWER - The heart of the multiple-choice question that provides the information that an individual needs to think about to answer the question. This may also be called the background statement.
Case Mix CORRECT ANSWER - The mix (variety) of patients for whom care is delivered organized by specified characteristics (e.g., gender, diagnosis related group [DRG], payer).
Chronic Illness or Disease CORRECT ANSWER - An illness or disease that has lasted 3 months or longer. They tend to become more common with age.
Client Advocate CORRECT ANSWER - The CNL becomes competent at ensuring that clients, families, and communities are well informed and included in care planning. The CNL also serves as an informed leader for improving care and as an advocate for the profession and the interdisciplinary health care team.
Clinical Decision Support CORRECT ANSWER - A key functionality of health information technology encompassing a variety of tools including, but not limited to: computerized alerts and reminders for providers and patients; clinical guidelines; condition specific order sets; focused patient data reports and summaries; documentation templates; diagnostic support; and contextually relevant reference information.
Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) CORRECT ANSWER - A role that evolved out of a partnership between nursing education and practice leaders to address the need for a nurse educated to address patient care needs in a complex, changing health care delivery environment.
Clinical Nurse Leader Association (CNLA) CORRECT ANSWER - An association that provides a forum for CNLs to collaborate, network, share data, and promote the CNL role.
Clinician CORRECT ANSWER - The CNL is designer/coordinator/integrator/evaluator of care to individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations. He or she is able to understand the rationale for care and competently deliver this care to complex and diverse populations. The CNL provides care at the point of care with particular emphasis on health promotion and risk reduction services. [Show Less]