Legal and Legislative Issues
What is an example of an unintentional tort?
What is Professional negligence?
Professional negligence is considered an unintentional tort
Assault/Battery, false imprisonment, invasion of privacy, defamation, and slander are intentional torts.
Gives patients protection in dealing with insurance companies?
What is the Affordable Care Act?
What determines the functions and priorities of an organization?
What is The organization’s mission statement?
What change is easier to make?
What is Personal Behavior?
It is much easier to change a persons behavior than it is to change an entire groups behavior.
What defines the legal boundaries of nursing at the state level?
What is The Nurse Practice Act
The Nurse practice acts defines and limits the practice of nursing, stating what constitutes authorized practice as well as what exceeds the scope of authority.
How many components must be presentfor an individual to be found guilty of malpractice?
What is five?
Five components must be present for a professional to be held liable for malpractice
occurs within an organization, reporting up the chain of command.
What is Internal whistleblowing?
What is the best definition for the process of planning?
Continuous with cyclic evaluation checkpoints
The deliberate application of knowledge and skills to bring about a change
What is Planned change?
Rationale: A planned change is well thought out and done purposely where a change by drift change is more accidental.
This is the natural and expected response to change
What is resistance?
Rationale: Resistance is expected from individuals due to factors like lack of trust and flexibility
The nurse witnesses a patient sign an operative permit form. Legally, what does the nurses signature imply?
What is observed the client sign the consent form?
Nurse is not legally responsible for informed consent, however is responsible for confirming that the client signed the consent form.
Manager assures the work environment is both safe and conducive to professional and personal growth for subordinates
What is Workplace Advocacy?
What is the most fiscally responsible method for determining staffing needs for a hospital unit?
An agreed-upon staffing formula currently in use
With this classic change strategy, the change agent assumes that humans are social creatures, more easily influenced by others than by facts
What is Normative Reeducative?
Rationale: Normative reeducative strategy uses group norms and peer pressure to socialize and influence people into change
What is true regarding individual values
What is They are often modified by parents, peers, and role models throughout life?
Five components of Malpractice are?
What is?
1. duty to use care
2. failure to meet standard of care
3. foreseeability of harm
4. direct relationship between failure to meet the standard of care and injury can be proved
5. injury
What is Advocacy?
What is protecting and defending what one believes in for both self and others
One of the most commonly used tools in health-care organizations is SWOT analysis. What is the definition for opportunities?
Objectives
What is External conditions that promote achievement of organizational objectives
Unfreezing, Movement and Refreezing are three phases of what theory?
What is the Lewin’s Change Theory
The Lewin’s Change Theory has 3 phases the change agent must go through before a planned change is a part of the system
The middle stage of the stages of change in responsibilities of the change agent?
What is foreseeability of harm?
What is true regarding the implications of a Good Samaritan law for a RN?
What is the nursing care cannot be considered negligent?
What is a nurse who provided out-of-scope care is not protected by the Good Samaritan law?
Good Samaritan law protect health-care providers from potential liability if they volunteer their nursing skills outside of the workplace in emergency situations, and their actions are not grossly negligent and does not exceed scope of practice.
Nurses must advocate for
What is themselves, clients, subordinates, and their profession?
How is the leadership role and management function associated with operational and strategic planning?
What is Encouraging subordinates to be involved in policy formation
What characteristics are associated with change by drift changes?
What is they are accidental?
What is they are unplanned?
Nurses can act as an advocate by
What is
Helping others make informed decisions
Acting as intermediaries in the environment
Directly intervening on behalf of others
Advocating for social justice