Patient Rights
Stresses strong patient - provider relationship
What is 1998 Patient's Bill of Rights?
When a person reports wrong practices outside the organization
What is external whistleblowing?
What a reasonable prudent nurse would do in a similar situation or minimum level of expertise
What is Standard of Care?
This refers to assault and battery.
What is Intentional Tort?
T. or F.
Legal and Ethical Are the Same.
What is false?
It is illegal to discriminate for genetic information
What is GINA (Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act)?
T. or F.
Nurses must exert their collective influence and make their concerns known to policy makers
What is True?
Failure of a nurse to act in a reasonable manner that is also known as malpractice.
What is professional negligence?
This is where a nurse finds boundaries for practice
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
A common error made by managers in ethical problem solving is using the _______________________ for determining the quality of the decision making.
What is outcome of the decision as the sole basis?
You have to 18 years old or older to decide to make your own medical decision regarding a terminal disease.
What is Right to Die?
Gives patients protection in dealing with insurance companies ____________
What is 2010 Affordable Care Act?
When there is an omission to do something a reasonable person who do.
What is Ordinary negligence?
Consent, consent, consent, these are the three types.
What are Informed consent, Implied consent, Express consent?
This is the A for MORAL
What is Affirm position and act?
_____________ is a term that is referred to when you ensure that a patient maintains their autonomy
What is Patient Advocacy?
This philosophy puts patients and their families first within healthcare
What is person- and family-centered care?
Malpractice insurance is recommended for nurses due to their__________________, and because injuring parties seek____________ from as many financial resources as possible.
What expanded roles and damages?
What the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act does for patients.
What is Protects the privacy of health information and improves the portability and continuity of health insurance coverage?
This is when the individual knows the right thing to do, but organizational constraints make it difficult to take the right course of action.
What is Moral distress?
This is addressed when diversity, equity and Health equity is accomplished for all patient populations
What systemic fairness?
Name these three types of Law.
What is Criminal law, Civil law, Administrative law?
Name e of the components of Professional Negligence.
What is, A standard of care is in place, There is a failure to meet the standard of care, Foreseeability of harm must exist, There must be a provable correlation between care and harm, and Actual patient injury must occur?
If a nurse gives narcotic drugs without an order, this is a cause that will follow.
What is License suspension or revocation?
In an era of markedly limited _________, ___________, and _____________, nearly all decision making by leader-managers involves some ethical component.
What are physical, human, and fiscal resources?