Policy & Advocacy
This federal department is primarily responsible for improving the health status of the American people.
What is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS)?
This ethical principle is demonstrated when a nurse goes beyond required duties to actively promote a patient's well-being and prevent harm.
What is beneficence?
A community coalition sets a goal of reducing vaping among high school students from 20% to 10% within three years. This step involves creating measurable goals and objectives.
What is planning?
During discharge planning, a nurse helps a client compare rehabilitation centers, discusses available services, and supports the client's final choice rather than making the decision for them. This ethical principle is being upheld.
What is autonomy?
This amount is paid every month to keep a health insurance policy active, even if no healthcare services are used.
What is a premium?
A nurse meets with a senator to encourage passage of a bill expanding interpreter services. This branch of government is being influenced.
What is the legislative branch?
This ethical theory emphasizes the moral character and virtues of the decision-maker rather than specific rules or outcomes.
What is virtue ethics?
A man decides to schedule a skin cancer screening after seeing a billboard showing the warning signs of melanoma. In the Health Belief Model, the billboard serves as this component.
What is a cue to action?
Following a severe injury, a patient cannot make decisions and has no advance directive. This type of individual is designated to make decisions based on the patient's known wishes and best interests.
What is a healthcare proxy?
A patient pays the first $2,000 of covered healthcare expenses each year before insurance begins sharing the cost. This amount is known as a __________.
What is a deductible?
The process by which government agencies create and enforce rules to implement laws and protect public health and safety?
What is a regulation?
This ethical theory holds that actions are morally right when they are based on duties, obligations, and adherence to rules regardless of the outcome.
What is deontology?
A woman says, "I know I need to exercise more, and I'm thinking about joining a gym sometime soon." She is in this stage of the Stages of Change Model.
What is contemplation?
A nurse facilitator leads a meeting where physicians want more testing, insurance representatives want lower costs, and the patient wants fewer clinic visits. A plan is developed that partially satisfies everyone's concerns while meeting health goals. This conflict-management strategy is being demonstrated.
What is compromise?
A client wants the freedom to schedule an appointment with a dermatologist without first obtaining permission from a primary care provider. This type of insurance plan is most likely preferred.
What is a PPO?
This organization determines the legal scope of practice for registered nurses within a state.
What is the State Board of Nursing?
A nurse feels distress because organizational policies prevent providing the level of care the nurse believes patients deserve. This ethical concept describes that experience.
What is moral distress?
A patient successfully demonstrates how to insert a foley catheter after watching a nurse's demonstration. This learning domain has been achieved.
What is the psychomotor domain?
A nurse recommends a walker, wheelchair, and hospital bed before discharge because these items are intended for repeated medical use in the home. Collectively, these items are known as __________.
What is durable medical equipment (DME)?
This federal health insurance program primarily covers adults age 65 and older, as well as certain younger individuals with disabilities.
What is Medicare?
Writing legislators, joining a professional nursing association, voting, and running for office are examples of this nursing role.
A public health nurse learns that a mother with untreated bipolar disorder, an impending loss of housing, and limited resources asks the nurse not to disclose the family's situation because she fears losing custody of her child. The nurse must balance respecting the mother's wishes with protecting the child's welfare.
Question: This ethical principle may override the mother's autonomy when there is a significant risk of harm to the child.
What is nonmaleficence?
A nurse rewrites educational materials using short sentences, pictures, and common words instead of medical jargon. The nurse is primarily addressing this challenge.
What is limited health literacy?
A client with COPD has excellent providers, appropriate medications, and affordable services, but repeatedly misses appointments because transportation is unavailable. This "right" of case management is lacking.
What is the right place (or access to care)?
A hospital receives the same reimbursement for treating two patients with similar diagnoses, regardless of the exact cost of care provided. This payment system is based on these reimbursement categories.
What are Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs)?