Basic Concepts
The nursing process
What is Assess, Diagnose, Plan, Implement, and Evaluate
If a nursing home patient falls and fractures his hip, a nurse should provide him pain medication as quickly as possible adheres to which principle?
What is beneficence
Has been found to help in treatment of diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease
Fetal tissue
Organization that began growing fetal tissue within a lab
A patient requests that a nurse not reveal his terminal diagnosis to his family. The patient explains that his family would probably disregard his wishes and keep him alive no matter the circumstances. The nurse must recognize the obligation to keep this information in confidence and still support the patient's family adheres to which principle?
What is fidelity
Organization created to form a database of all those that are waitlisted for organ transplantation
UNOS
The principles of ethical dilemmas
What are Autonomy, Justice, Fidelity, Beneficence, Non-maleficence, and Veracity
A nurse informs the patient's health care provider that the patient is refusing potentially life saving surgery. In this situation, which ethical principle is the nurse using?
What is autonomy
The first human cell line is known as
HeLa cells
The 4 categories of Ethics
What are Meta-Ethics, Normative Ethics, Applied Ethics and Descriptive Ethics
If an incompetent, or chemically impaired, health care practitioner is taking care of patients, a nurse should report the abuse to protect the patient is adhering by which principle?
What is nonmaleficence
What concept is at risk when genetic screening results are released to insurance companies
Confidentiality
A nurse is on duty in the emergency room when the nurse is notified that a school bus has been struck by a train. Immediately the nurse reports to the triage area and begins the task of determining the severity of injuries, so that the most critical patients receive care first. Which ethical theory is the nurse putting into action?
What is Ulticarianism
On a medical unit, several patients are being treated for Hepatitis B infection. One of the patients contracted Hepatitis B through using infected needles associated with heroin use. Another of the patients contracted Hepatitis B through a blood transfusion following a car accident. Several of the employees on the unit treat the patient who used heroin rudely and delay their attention to the patient's requests. The nurse intervenes and reminds the staff to use which ethical principle?
What is Justice
The formation of blood's cellular components and how blood cells are produced
Hematopoiesis