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This organization helps protect nurses by setting and enforcing workplace safety standards that reduce hazards such as bloodborne pathogen exposure, unsafe lifting, and hazardous chemicals.
What is OSHA?
These two provisions of the ANA Code of Ethics identify the recipients of a nurse’s primary responsibility, emphasizing the patient as the central focus of care.
What are Provisions 1 and 2 of the ANA Code of Ethics?
This federal agency coordinates national disaster response, provides preparedness guidelines such as the Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 201, and supports state and local governments during emergencies.
What is FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency)?
This type of insurance, commonly offered through employers, influences hospital staffing decisions because reimbursement rates affect budgets, nurse hiring, and available support staff.
What is private insurance?
Claimed one day we would all be “Death Nurses”
Who is Ginny?
Main goal of QI is to reduce this
What is preventable harm?
Safe staffing advocacy is most closely linked to this nursing value.
What is patient safety?
What are the three levels of system thinking?
What are micro, meso, and macro?
What is x for those above 65 years old and y for those who are unable to afford private insurance?
What is Medicaid and Medicare?
Who collapsed out of the wheelchair during nursing orientation crutch across campus activity?
Who is Allie?
What are the transtheoretical 6 theories of change?
What are pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and relapse?
This ethical principle requires healthcare providers to take positive actions that promote a patient’s well-being and contribute to their overall good.
What is beneficence?
What is the purpose of the EHR?
What is continuity of care, safety, reimbursement, compliance, and the legal record?
This staffing approach adjusts nurse assignments based on how sick patients are and how much nursing care time they require, rather than using fixed ratios.
What is acuity-based staffing?
Heard the microwave beep and ran for a Code Blue
Who is Anna Matushevskiy
Nurses must understand reimbursement and reform because these policies directly affect this aspect of care.
What is patient access and quality of care?
This legal doctrine holds nurses accountable for failing to provide care that meets the accepted standard, resulting in patient harm.
What is negligence (or malpractice)?
When does nursing care become data?
What is when it is documented?
There are three types of nursing schedules used in the US.
What is Acuity, Budget, and Nurse patient Ratio
Who asked if they could boil breastmilk?
Who is Marcin?
This healthcare policy approach sets a legally required maximum number of patients assigned to a nurse at one time in order to improve patient safety and reduce nurse burnout.
What are mandated nurse-to-patient staffing ratios?
What was RaDonda Vaught charged with?
Reckless homicide and impaired adult abuse.
What are the three sciences that nursing information combines?
What are nursing science, computer science, and information science?
Hospitals often adjust nurse staffing levels in response to changes in this financial payment structure from non-government insurance plans. .
What is a private insurance reimbursement?
Who has a tattoo of a gingerbread house?
Who is Paige?