Patient Rights and Legal Issues
A person is deemed this when they are unable to understand and appreciate the information given during the consent process
What is incompetent?
This is the most important tool of psychiatric nursing
What is self?
This ethical principle is demonstrated when a nurse ensures that the available resources are distributed so that those who need more get what they need for their health and survival, even if they use more resources than other populations.
What is Justice?
This theorist focused eight stages of human development. These stages are: trust vs mistrust, autonomy vs shame and doubt, initiative vs guilt, industry vs inferiority, intimacy vs isolation, generativity vs stagnation, and ego integrity vs despair.
Who is Erkison?
This is the use of medications for restrict patients' behavior or thier freedom of movment.
What is a chemical restraint?
Written instructions for health care when individuals are incapacitated
What are advance care directives?
This framework consists of three separate but interdependent domains: biologic, psychological, and social. Each domain has an independent knowledge and treatment focus but interacts and is mutually interdependent with the other domains
What is biopsychosocial framework?
This ethical concept is utilized when a nurse minimizes the harm and risk to a patient as much as possible.
What is nonmaleficence?
These support systems are large organizations, such as hospitals and nursing homes that provide care to individuals.
What are formal social support systems?
This is the ability to feel in oneself the feelings experienced by another person, according to Peplau.
What is empathic linkage?
The right to choose one's own health-related behaviors, which at times differ from those recommended by health professionals
What is Self-Determinism?
This serves as a framework for clinical judgment decision-making and nursing practices
What is the nursing process?
An example of this ethical concept is a nurse allowing a patient to refuse a treatment or consent based on an informed decision.
What is respect for atutonomy
This is the displacement of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors originally associated with significant others from childhood onto a person in a current therapeutic relationship. This is NOT therapeutic
What is Transference?
This is the name of the Weasley's family owl. He was old and got lost frequently.
Who is Errol?
This is a legal procedure to ensure that the patient knows the benefits and costs of treatment
What is informed consent?
Nurses can improve patient care by using this when communicating with nurses and other disciplines, giving visibility to nursing activities, enhancing data collection, communicating outcome evaluations, and documenting adherence to standards of care.
What is standardized nursing language?
An example of this ethical concept is when a nurse acts in the best interest of her patient.
What is beneficence?
This theorist of interpersonal relations models emphasized the importance of empathic linkage.
Who is Peplau?
This is when the direction of all of the therapist's feelings and attitudes toward the patient. This becomes a problem when these feelings and perceptions are based on other interpersonal experiences. When this happens, the nurse misses important assessment and intervention data.
What is countertransference?
This is the involuntary confinement of a person in a room or an area where the person is physically prevented from leaving. They are placed here for purposes of safety or behavioral managment
What is seclusion?
This involves ongoing self-evaluation through observing, monitoring, and judging of one's own and others' behaviors with the goal of providing effective and meaningful nursing care
What is reflection?
This is tdemonsrated when a nurse tells the patient the truth. This ethical principle includes using a nurses judgement and sensitivity to the person's situation when being truthful.
What is Veracity
What is Empathy?
This theorist believes that caring is the foundation of nursing. Her conceptualizations transcend conventional views of illness and focus on the meaning of health and quality of life.
Who is Jean Watson?