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Exam 1 Learning Objectives
Chapter 1:
1. Differentiate between standard and integrative health care.
2. Describe the scope of maternity and women’s health nursing.
3. List the National Quality never events and discuss how these could be avoided.
4. Describe how the nurse can effect change in each of the following areas to improve the quality and effectiveness of health care available to Americans:
a. Structure
b. Medical errors
c. Cost
d. Access
e. Disparities
f. Health literacy
5. When assessing pregnant women, what factors would you recognize as having the potential to contribute to the birth rate and the rate of infant mortality in the United States?
6. Describe the role of complementary and alternative therapies in women’s health care.
7. Identify several factors and conditions that affect the health of women. For each factor and condition identified, describe the effect it has had on women’s health.
8. Examine Healthy People 2020 goals.
9. Explain risk management and standards of care in the delivery of nursing care.
10. Describe SBAR.
11. Describe the role of the nurse at the bedside in nursing research.
12. Differentiate between the terms:
Outcomes oriented care-
Clinical benchmarks-
Evidenced based practice-
Chapter 3:
1. Explore how recent advances in genetics have changed the field of health care.
2. Discuss the essential competencies in genetics and genomics for all nurses.
3. Discuss key findings of the Human Genome Project.
4. Identify genetic disorders commonly tested for in maternity and women’s health nursing.
5. Examine the ethical, legal, and social implications of the Human Genome Project.
6. Define the term:
Predictive testing-
Predispositonal testing-
Occurrence risk-
Recurrence risk-
7. Discuss the education and counseling needs of individuals and families who undergo genetic testing.
8. Differentiate between the terms:
Genotype-
Phenotype-
Karyotype-
Chapter 1:
1. Differentiate between standard and integrative health care.
2. Describe the scope of maternity and women’s health nursing.
3. List the National Quality never events and discuss how these could be avoided.
4. Describe how the nurse can effect change in each of the following areas to improve the quality and effectiveness of health care available to Americans:
a. Structure
b. Medical errors
c. Cost
d. Access
e. Disparities
f. Health literacy
5. When assessing pregnant women, what factors would you recognize as having the potential to contribute to the birth rate and the rate of infant mortality in the United States?
6. Describe the role of complementary and alternative therapies in women’s health care.
7. Identify several factors and conditions that affect the health of women. For each factor and condition identified, describe the effect it has had on women’s health.
8. Examine Healthy People 2020 goals.
9. Explain risk management and standards of care in the delivery of nursing care.
10. Describe SBAR.
11. Describe the role of the nurse at the bedside in nursing research.
12. Differentiate between the terms:
Outcomes oriented care-
Clinical benchmarks-
Evidenced based practice-
Chapter 3:
1. Explore how recent advances in genetics have changed the field of health care.
2. Discuss the essential competencies in genetics and genomics for all nurses.
3. Discuss key findings of the Human Genome Project.
4. Identify genetic disorders commonly tested for in maternity and women’s health nursing.
5. Examine the ethical, legal, and social implications of the Human Genome Project.
6. Define the term:
Predictive testing-
Predispositonal testing-
Occurrence risk-
Recurrence risk-
7. Discuss the education and counseling needs of individuals and families who undergo genetic testing.
8. Differentiate between the terms:
Genotype-
Phenotype-
Karyotype-