Essentials of Nursing Practice
Student Resources
Chapter 9
1. A general accepted definition of change is to cause something to be _________ or to move from one state to another.
Answer: different
2. All nurses must act as ____________ and provide leadership through quality improvement and service development to enhance people’s wellbeing and experiences of healthcare.
Answer: change agents
3. All nurses must systematically evaluate care and ensure that they and others use the findings to help __________people’s experience and care outcomes and to shape future services.
Answer: improve
4. All nurses must be self-aware and recognise how their own values, principles and _________may affect their practice.
Answer: assumptions
5. All nurses must appreciate the value of _________ in practice.
Answer: evidence
6. Since its earliest days, the NHS has been characterised by almost constant___________.
Answer: change
7. The Health and Social Care Act (2012) legislated for NHS _____________and reform of the structure and systems.
Answer: modernisation
8. The overall objective of the changes within the Health and Social Care Act (2012) is to improve the ________quality of services and patient outcomes.
Answer: quality
9. Nurses are in the best position for identifying the need for and __________forward change.
Answer: driving
10. For student nurses making sense of the___________ is not without its challenges.
Answer: NHS change model
11. The central component (“our shared purpose”) of the NHS change model can be applied to the ________________.
Answer: strategy for nursing
12. The Clinical Leadership Competency Framework (provides a framework for student nurses to develop leadership _____________at every stages of their professional journey.
Answer: Competence
13. The concept of shared leadership can be aligned to student nurses professional values bases and ethical standards and personal responsibility and accountability for the delivery of __________care.
Answer: compassionate
14. Leading innovative change for student nurses is not necessarily about radically_________ services.
Answer: redesigning
15. Student nurses need to ensure that the delivery of change is rigorous and that methods for measuring improvement are ___________
Answer: transparent