This quiz assesses knowledge in evaluating nursing care within communities, focusing on smoking cessation programs. It explores the importance of evaluation, assumptions, outcome attainment, quality of care, and the roles of formative and summative evaluations.
Accrediting agencies focus on careful documentation.
Actions have both intended and unintended results.
Nursing care is dependent on the reimbursement available.
People expect professionals to document their care.
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Answering the question Were goals achieved?
Clarifying whether agency funds were appropriately expended
Determining quantity of care given
Measurement of community living outcomes
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Adequacy and appropriateness
Agency mission statements
Costbenefit ratios
Personal feelings about the care
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Analyzing the data and recognizing gaps
Determining long-term effect on health
Improving care as it is being delivered
Enhancing future offerings of the program
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Analyzing the data and recognizing gaps
Determining what to do differently next time
Improving care as it is being delivered
Enhancing future offerings of the program
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The nurse has completed her ethical, legal, and political responsibilities.
The agency retains state approval and national accreditation.
The community does not feel ignored by the agency.
The interventions helped community members make appropriate lifestyle changes.
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Have expectations about care to be delivered.
Have loaned money to the agency.
Helped write the legislation for health care agency funding.
Own stock in the agency.
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The American Association of Colleges of Nursing
The American Public Health Association
The Quad Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing
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Was the agency adequately funded?
What organizational process was used?
What techniques were used?
What were the end effects on clients?
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Number of accidents in the subsequent year in comparison with the previous year
Number of people who attended the educational program
Number of requests for information received after the program
Satisfaction level of those who attended the program
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Percentage who currently smoke
Attitudes toward smoking
Prior experience with smoking cessation
Knowledge about the dangers of smoking
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Asking the mothers to listen carefully to the nurses suggestions
Asking the mothers to develop a contract to use the techniques discussed
Asking the mothers to come to a consensus about how to deal with specific problems
Asking the mothers to self-report abuse of their infants
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Ensuring that smoking is not allowed on school property
Establishing community-wide programs on the dangers of smoking
Lobbying to pass laws against teenagers purchase of cigarettes
Establishing programs to help adults, especially parents, give up smoking
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Asking every community member, What is your level of self-esteem?
Asking the employing agencys director, who lives in the community, about satisfaction level
Distributing self-esteem scales to a random sample of community members
Observing the clients currently using certain community-based services
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You are capable of continued growth and development.
You are responsible for your own health and well-being.
You can improve your own health and well-being by using imagery.
You can influence your environment and circumstances.
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Ask the members of the media who report on the community
Examine epidemiologic statistics of morbidity and mortality
Review the discharge diagnoses of clients from the community hospital
Visit the local grocery stores and exercise programs
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Agencys policies about writing grants for such a program
Number of single teenage mothers in the local high schools
Whether local teenagers are interested in receiving such a service
Whether anyone else in the area is offering such a service
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Appropriateness of the selected intervention
Interpersonal skill of caregivers
Quality of the care provided
Effectiveness of the program
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Appreciating the opportunity to meet the policy makers in the community
Clarifying which agenda item was relevant to the agency and its purpose
Insisting on dedicating the nurses time toward giving care, not observing politics
Pointing out that the nurses caseload was too heavy to waste time in such a way
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The number of hospitals and other health agencies in the community
The number of physicians who practice in the community
The government funding level of the community
The poverty level of the community
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The assessment of community members health needs
The focus areas for the nation in Healthy People 2020
Goals established by other, similar community/public health agencies
Goals suggested by the public health research literature
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The adequacy of resources, evident in such measures as waiting lists for services
The financial base of the agency, evident in the agency budget
The number of cooperative physicians, evident in the agency telephone referral list
The number of nursing staff, evident in the staffing assignments
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Whether a high proportion of a random sample report change in their health behaviors
Whether a majority of the population confirm changes in their health behaviors
Whether each person the nurse individually taught reports a change in health behaviors
Whether each staff nurse reports that their assigned families demonstrated a change in health behaviors
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Compare the admission levels attributable to asthma before and after the implementation.
Compare the admission levels attributable to asthma with the admission levels attributable to accidents.
Determine whether the admissions were attributable to asthma or other respiratory problems.
Determine whether there were zero admissions because of the decreased incidence of asthma after the intervention.
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Comparing the population with regard to the factor of interest before and after the intervention
Comparing the population with another population with regard to the factor of interest
Determining whether the objective is appropriate for the program
Determining whether the objective was reached at the desired level
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To avoid community dissatisfaction when expectations are not met
To be sure that no one blames the nurse when unexpected happenings occur
To fulfill the responsibility of keeping the community informed
To be politically and culturally sensitive to the needs of the community
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It helps explain why nurses have limited time to provide direct client care.
It helps keep administrators informed of what the staff is doing before staff evaluation time.
It helps the nurse better understand the evaluation and the findings.
It helps provide a baseline against which to study trends and make program decisions.
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Interpreting and judging the data before making any recommendations
Examining data through the approach that has commonly been used by the agency
Reviewing the literature and comparing it with current findings
Using the Omaha System as the guiding framework
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Analysis of variance
Multiple regression analysis
Time series design or other quasi-experimental method
True experiment with randomization and control
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They lack statistical documentation, despite telling about an interesting event.
They have to be repeated in order to verify that no other factor could have changed the outcomes.
They are not considered good research.
They cannot prove that the nursing intervention led to the specific health outcomes.
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Can similar outcomes be achieved with less cost?
Can unlicensed assistive personnel give care equally rapidly?
Was the care appropriate and given correctly?
Was the nurse as efficient and as skilled as possible?
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Calculating all of the indirect, less visible costs
Placing an appropriate dollar value on the benefits
Using computer software to calculate the results
Controlling the variables of cost and benefit
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Administrators do not focus equally on costs and benefits.
Administrators are not experts in costbenefit analyses.
Administrators lack understanding of health care benefits used in such analyses.
Administrators ignore the client perspective of time, energy, and money.
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