ch 5. Legal principles in nursing
This is a patient's agreement to allow a procedure such as surgery based on a full disclosure of the risks, benefits, alternatives, and consequences of refusal.
Informed consent
Process whereby a nurse objectively provides patients with the information they need to make decisions and supports the patients in whatever decision they make?
What is Advocacy
What does PDSA stand for?
(Preformance improvement model)
P- Plan
D- do
S- Study
A- Act
A serious offense that results in significant harm to another person or society in general
Felony
A nurse decides to challenge a physicians order for a patients well being. What eithical principle is the nurse demonstrating?
A- Advocacy
B- Benefience
C - Utilitarianisim
D- Deontology
B- Benefience.
This requires the use of quality improvement and risk management procedures. Both quality improvement and risk management require thorough documentation
The Joint commission.
The ability or tendency to function independently?
What is Autonomy
Peer review journal
An event that involves sudden death or injury is?
what is a Sentinel Event
Providing assistance to which victim would be covered under the state’s Good Samaritan law?
The unit secretary at the hospital suffers an anaphylactic reaction after eating nuts as a morning snack.
A patient has a grand mal seizure in the hospital foyer when saying goodbye to his family.
A patient at the clinic where the nurse is working suffers a cardiac arrest after walking in the door.
Two people were badly hurt in a car accident on the nurse’s way to work in the morning.
Two people were badly hurt in a car accident on the nurse’s way to work in the morning.
Legal guidelines for minimally safe and adequate nursing principles.
Standards of Care
Doing good or active promotion of doing good. one of the four principles of the ethical theory of deontology?
Beneficence
What level of study is the strongest level for evidence-based collection?
Level 2 - well designed single randomized and non-randomized clinical trials
also known as RCT
Formal approaches to analyze healthcare-related processes are?
What is Quality Improvement (QI)
Performance (PI)
The nurse filled out an incident report after a patient fell but makes no mention of the incident report in her notes in the patient’s chart. What is the reason for this?
The incident report includes the nurse’s interpretations of what probably led the patient to get out of bed.
A copy of the incident report is filed in the patient’s chart along with the nurse’s notes about the fall.
The incident report is confidential and not intended to be used as evidence in a malpractice suit.
The nurse does not want to risk a malpractice lawsuit by mentioning the creation of an incident report.
The incident report is confidential and not intended to be used as evidence in a malpractice suit.
Civil wrongful acts or omissions against a person or a person's property that are compensated by awarding monetary damages to the individual whose rights were violated. Characterized as either intentional or unintentional
Torts
The branch of ethics within the field of healthcare
Bioethics
P - Patient / population
l- intervention of interest
C-comparison of interest
O- Outcome
T- time
Principles or standards that govern proper conduct
Ethics
The following are forms of outcome measurement? Select all that apply
1. Self reporting fatigue
2. Dirty linens
3.Weight
4. Patient satisfaction survey
1. Self-reporting fatigue- patient expresses less fatigue after a 4 weeks exercise program.
3. Weight- patient has lost 10 lbs in 2 months
4. Patient satisfaction survey. the patient is satisfied with nursing care.
Consists of rules and regulations developed and enforced by state regulatory agencies including the state boards of nursing.
Administrative law
Traditional theory of ethics that proposes to define actions as right or wrong based on the characteristics of fidelity to promises, truthfulness, and justice
Deontology
A problem-solving approach to clinical practice that combines the conscientious use of best evidence in combination with a clinician's expertise, patient preference and values, and available health care resources in making decisions about patient care.
What is evidence-based practice
Delivery of healthcare based on ethical principles and standards of care.
ethics of care
A nurse is assessing a patients vitals before administering a medication. according to the code of ethics what is the nurse displaying?
Responsibility -A nurse that conducts a needed assessments a patients need for mediction before administering it is demonstrating responsibility.