Texas BON Nurse Practice Act
The overarching mission of the Texas Board of Nursing is to protect and promote this group?
Who is the public or people of Texas?
The mission of the Texas BON is to protect & promote the welfare of the people of Texas by ensuring that each person holding a license as a nurse in the State of Texas is competent to practice safely
Intentional touching without consent
What is Battery?
While the physician explains the procedure, the nurse's primary role in this process is to act as this person for the signature
What is Witnessing the signature?
The law that defines the scope of practice in each state
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
When a nurse is caught between their personal values and a patient's choice (e.g., blood transfusion refusal), they face this
What is an Ethical Dilemma?
Nurses are required to report this type of conviction within 24 hours
What is suspected child abuse?
Unintentional harm caused by a nurse's failure to meet the standard of care (e.g., medication errors)
What is Negligence/Malpractice?
The legal document that designates a specific person to make healthcare decisions if the patient becomes incapacitated.
What is Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare (or Healthcare Proxy)?
Laws that offer legal immunity to bystanders helping at an accident scene
What are Good Samaritan Laws?
Type of ethical principle in which a nurse practices the 8 rights of medication to avoid harming a patient
What is Nonmaleficence?
The performance of an act that requires substantial specialized judgment & skill, the proper performance of which is based on knowledge & application of the principles of biological, physical, & social science as acquired by a completed course in an approved school of professional nursing
What is “Professional Nursing” ?
A nurse who angrily tells a patient, “If you don't go to sleep, I'm going to give you an injection,” can be accused of this tort
What is Assault?
This in an intentional tort defined by threatening behavior
The nurse should take this action if a patient states they do not understand the procedure after the doctor has left the room
What is contacting the provider to come back and explain?
This type of reporting is required when a nurse suspects another nurse of using drug or alcohol abuse on the job
What is Mandatory Reporting?
p338 Potter
Refers to the promotion of open discussion whenever errors occur without fear of recrimination
What is "Just Culture"?
P 320, Potter
To maintain licensure, Texas nurses must complete this many contact hours of Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) every two years
What are 20 hours?
This occurs when a nurse refuses to provide care for a patient after having established a patient-nurse relationship
What is Patient Abandonment?
p452 Zerwekh
When a patient makes these to guide future care, they must be documented and scanned into the system
What are Advance Directives?
A nursing student's legal responsibility for care is equivalent to this, even though they are still training
What is the same as a licensed professional?
TX BON Rules 214.9 (c) and 215.9 (c)
The clinical instructor may supervise a nursing student to witness a consent form as long as the instructor is in the room with the student. True or false?
What is False?
Under the Texas BON Nurse Practice Act, nursing students cannot and should not under any circumstances be responsible for or be asked to witness the signing of consent forms because of the legal nature of the document.
This type of task cannot be delegated to LVN personnel because it requires advanced professional nursing judgment
What is comprehensive nursing assessment (or triage)?
Will accept initial assessment, develop nurse care plans, delegate tasks
Restraining a patient against their will without proper authorization
What is False Imprisonment?
(Will accept battery)
Based on the Nuremberg code, what important documentation is learned from it?
What is voluntary informed consent?
(will accept right to withdraw, informed consent)
p. 447 Zerwekh
If a nurse tells people erroneously that a patient has gonorrhea and the disclosure affects the patient’s business, the nurse is justifiably liable for libel- True or false?
What is False?- the nurse can be sued for slander
Libel is the written defamation of character
Type of workplace abuse that occurs between individuals who are on the same level or equal in terms of their job responsibilities
Lateral violence AKA horizontal violence
(p 355 Potter)