Ethical Principles
1. A patient's right to choose for themselves
2. No matter how devastating the prognosis is; no matter how difficult the recovery will be; the nurse must always tell the truth
1. What is autonomy?
2. What is veracity?
Beneficence, Non-Maleficence, Autonomy, Veracity, Fidelity, and Justice
What are the Principles of Ethics?
1 Nurse gives insulin subcut
1. What is facilitated diffusion?
Protects a nurse from liability when providing emergency care at the scene of an accident
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
Performing tasks and responsibilities under the direction of an RN?
What is the role of the LPN?
Prevention that aims to prevent disease or injury
What is Primary prevention?
Air, hunger, shelter, rest, sleep and food
What are the physiological needs?
1. Obligation to be fair, equal treatment of all patients
2. It is my duty not to harm my patient
1. What is justice?
2. What is non-maleficence?
Client sues nurse for having all 4 rails up
What is false imprisonment?
Tube feedings, wound drainage, and clients on diuretics normally have
What is I/O monitoring?
A nurse caring for a wound requires a drainage specimen requires what action to collect it?
What is cleansing the wound with 0.9% sodium chloride irrigation?
Healthcare workers who are not licensed but provide non-nursing custodial, health-related activities and/or clerical client care services under the supervision of a registered nurse.
Who are UAP?
Right task, right person, right circumstance, right directions and right supervision
What are five rights of delegation ?
A person's motivation to reach his/her full potential. 5th ladder in Maslow's hierarchy.
What is self actualization ?
1A nurse makes a med error and realizes after collecting information that there was no adverse effect from the error so decides not to report it.
2. The nurse explains the risk of not taking prescribed medication but respects the patients' right to refuse one or all medications
1. What is veracity?
2. What is Autonomy?
A list of written statements for behavior that serve as a model for personal conduct
What is a Code of Ethics?
weight gain/loss, temperature increase/decrease, urine coca, skin- tugor or edema,
What are signs of fluid imbalance?
The nurse begins to prioritize in this important step of nursing process
What is nursing diagnosis?
Cannot do initial assessments of client condition and complaints Cannot triage Cannot create, initiate or alter nursing goals or establish nursing care plans Cannot do initial client education regarding client condition, surgeries or complaints Cannot administer IV chemotherapy Cannot administer any direct IV fluid bolus or push medications except for saline and heparin flushes
What is scope of practice for LPN?
The failure to use ordinary or reasonable care or to act in a careful manner
What is negligence?
A nurse is planning to collect data about a client of stomach pain which action should the nurse do first? Auscultate,percuss,Inspect, palpate
Inspect
Duty to keep promises to work-related commitments
What is fidelity?
Touching a patient without consent
What is battery?
A nurse documents blood pressure only is an example of
What is documenting by exception
In this step the nurse collects data
What is Assessment?
Enacted by the legislature of each state to: Protect clients’ safety & Guide the scope of practice for all levels of nurses
What is Nurse Practice Act (NPA)?
1. A nurse accepts responsibility for giving the wrong medication.
2. The "right" person
The "right" task
The "right" circumstances
The "right" directions and communication and
The "right" supervision and evaluation
1. What is accountability?
2. What are 5 rights of delegation?
Most common incident reported in the hospital and long-term care setting
What are falls?
1. Client falls and fractures their hip when the nurse assisted the client to a chair. The nurse should identify which of the following principles as the standard that will legally determine her liability
What is Negligence?
What is assault?
The RN analyzes the assessment data she gathered to determine __________?
What is (Nursing) diagnosis ?
Sedating a client to prevent them from falling out of bed
What is false imprisonment?
What type of tort is the nurse guilty of if they search a client's belongings without permission?
What is invasion of privacy?
A person is strongly influenced by their ethnic, religious, community and social relations.
What are cultural values?
A person wanting to be free from harm, and desire for security from harm, injury.
What is Safety ?
1. Duty to do no harm and prevent harm
2. The nurse must remove all disparities and treat all patients equally
1. What is non maleficence?
2. What is Justice?
A patient's name is published in an HIV study when he does not have HIV.
What is defamation of character(libel)?
Impaired breathing patterns r/t chronic disease process as evidenced by increased respirations and shortness of breath
this is an example of _________
What is nursing diagnosis?
When a competent clients leave a hospital prior to being ready for discharge, they leave _____________
What is against medical advice?
A client's surrogate decision maker to make healthcare decisions if the client is unable to do so
Who is the durable power of attorney for healthcare?
2. PT, OT, Hospice, home health and Rehab are ___
What is tertiary prevention?
You have 3 patients:
One has massive bleeding
The other 10/10 pain
One has shallow breathing
Which patient you will see first
What is taking care of a patient with shallow breathing?