Levels of Prevention
This level of prevention focuses on preventing disease before it occurs.
What is Primary Prevention?
Failure to act as a reasonably prudent person would in similar circumstances.
What is Negligence?
This nursing activity cannot be delegated.
What is Assessment?
Respecting a patient's right to refuse treatment.
What is Autonomy?
Leadership style that encourages team participation and shared decision-making.
What is Democratic Leadership?
A nurse teaches smoking cessation and healthy nutrition to a community group.
What is Primary Prevention?
Professional negligence committed by a licensed healthcare provider.
What is Malpractice?
A UAP can safely perform this task for a stable client.
What is obtaining routine vital signs?
Doing good for the patient.
What is Beneficence?
Leadership style often used during emergencies.
What is Autocratic Leadership?
A patient receives a mammogram to detect breast cancer early.
What is Secondary Prevention?
A nurse administers the wrong medication because they failed to verify the MAR.
What is Malpractice?
Before delegating, the nurse should review these five principles.
What are the Five Rights of Delegation?
"Do No Harm."
What is Nonmaleficence?
A nurse manager involves staff in unit decisions and values team input.
What is Democratic Leadership?
A patient participates in cardiac rehabilitation after a myocardial infarction.
What is Tertiary Prevention?
This key factor must be present for malpractice to occur.
What is a breach of the professional standard of care?
eaching a newly diagnosed diabetic patient how to administer insulin.
What is a task that cannot be delegated?
Threatening to administer a medication against a patient's wishes.
What is Assault?
Leadership style that inspires and motivates others toward a common vision.
What is Transformational Leadership?
A nurse performs a blood pressure screening at a health fair.
What is Secondary Prevention?
A visitor leaves water on the floor and another visitor slips and falls.
What is Negligence?
The nurse remains responsible for this even after delegating a task.
What is evaluation of patient outcomes?
Administering a medication after the patient refused it.
What is Battery?
This leadership quality is associated with fostering growth, teamwork, and innovation.
What is Transformational Leadership?