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Oklahoma
Nursing Articulation Consortium
Helene Fuld Educational Mobility
Grant
There is nothing more empowering that an idea whose time has
come.
(Author Unknown)
Definitions
Accountability:
Liability for one’s actions.
(Douglas, p. 259).
Articulation: A process through which nursing programs cooperate to
facilitate educational progress of students with minimum repetition.
(Colorado Council on Nursing Education, p.3)
Assess:
To determine the importance, size, or value of.
Authority:
The power and right to take action; sanction to act.
(Douglas, p. 259).
Collect:
To bring together into one body or place.
Competence: Having
possession of the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities to
function in a critical care setting.
Competence does not, however, necessarily imply competency.
(Hickey, M., et.al., p. 288.)
Competency:
“Ability to do”; simultaneous integration of knowledge, skills,
and attitudes that are required for performance of a designated role
and setting. (Hickey, M.,
et.al., p. 288.)
Competence Statements:
Broad descriptors of nurses’ behaviors (cognitive, affective,
psychomotor) that are amenable to assessment, and differentiate two
categories of nursing practice. (Hickey, M., et.al., p. 288.)
Critical Behaviors:
Component parts of the broader competency statements that define the
knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for competency achievement.
Critical behaviors are also referred to as criterion-referenced
behaviors and resemble a criterion checklist.
(Hickey, M., et.al, p. 288.)
Critical Thinking: A
process that defines a problem, selects pertinent information for a
solution, recognizes stated and unstated assumptions, formulates and
selects relevant hypotheses, draws conclusions and judges the validity
of inferences. The
outcome of critical thinking is forming a conclusion and stating the
justification for that conclusion. (Smith & Duell, p. 20).
Data:
Factual information.
Document:
To provide written information.
Evaluate:
To determine or fix the value of; to determine the significance
or work of usually by careful appraisal and study.
Formal teaching: To
provide client instruction concerning specific health issues following
established guidelines.
Informal teaching:
Impromptu teaching in which the nurse recognizes the client’s
readiness for learning, even though teaching was not in the plan of
care for the client that day.
Monitor:
To watch, observe or check, especially for a special purpose.
Nursing Process: A
thoughtful, deliberate use of a problem-solving approach to nursing.
(Ellis, Nowlis, &
Bentz, p. 692).
Research:
Systematic inquiry that uses orderly scientific methods to
answer questions or solve problems.
(Polit & Hungler, p. 621).
Responsibility:
A feeling of obligation to perform activities and assigned
tasks efficiently. (Douglas,
p. 264).
Structured Data Collection:
Assessment process in which specific, predeveloped categories
are used to obtain client information.
Structured Settings:
A specific location in which nursing care is provided.
The parameters of nursing practice in these settings are guided
by an agency’s specific job descriptions, policies and procedures.
Client outcomes in these setting are somewhat predictable. Examples
include homes, ambulatory care settings, schools, residential
institutions, hospitals, long-term care facilities.
Therapeutic Communication:
A process by which information is exchanged between individuals
through a common system of symbols, signs or information which
promotes the client’s level of wellness.
The nurse’s interaction with the client is characterized by
efficiency, appropriateness and flexibility.
Feedback between client and nurse enables them to determine
which messages have been understood.
Unstructured Data
Collection: Assessment in which client information is obtained
through a systematic process based on the nurse’s knowledge and the
client’s of actual and potential problems. Data collection is
expanded beyond client’s present problem to include present,
concurrent, past and potential problems.
Unstructured Settings:
Locations in which a nurse works with groups, populations or an entire
community. The nurse may
be required to develop specific job descriptions, policies and
procedures. Nursing care is provided within the legal parameters of
nursing practice.
Claudine Dickey
Project
Manager
Cindy Schneider
405 743 5109
Assistant
Project Manager
Andrea West
Project
Administrator
For more information, E-mail or
contact the office of Health Careers Education
The Department of CareerTech
www.okcareertech.org
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