Established in 1996; guarantees privacy of patients healthcare records
What is HIPAA, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
100
begins with the decision that surgical intervention is necessary and ends when the patient is transferred to the operating room table.
What is the Preoperative Phase?
100
Area in the hospital where the pathology department and blood bank are found.
What is unrestricted zone?
100
self reflection
What is introspection?
100
provides evidence to clinical practice, information on administrative policies, and information that can be used to develop specific policies
What are AORN standards and recommended practices?
200
violating or omitting a legal or moral duty
What is breach of duty
200
a guide to ensure the practice of quality patient care
What are standards?
200
Optional piece of PPE used for sanitary purposes only.
What are shoe covers?
200
information or data
What is evidence?
200
certification body for perioperative nurses
What is CCI, competency credentialing institute?
300
A tool used by nurses to protect themselves and their employer
What is documentation
300
Interviewing the patient and family members, reviewing medical records and lab results, and consulting other members of the health care team.
What is Assessment?
300
Two most commonly used pieces of equipment in the Operating Room.
What are ESU and Suction?
300
moral values and rules
What are ethics?
300
governs scope of duties and actions a nurse may legally practice
What is Nurse practice act?
400
a specific vocabulary used by nurses during documentation
What is PNDS?
400
devised to appropriate intervention strategies to improve or change the delivery of patient care.
What are Quality Indicators?
400
30-60
What is the humidity in the OR?
400
affected by beliefs, attitude, and values
What is culture?
400
a model in which nurses can choose personal accountability and make ethical decision making part of their practice
What is professional practice model?
500
loss, injury or deerioration, caused by the negligence, design or accident of one person to another
What is damage
500
Assessment, nursing diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, and implementation and evaluation.
What is the Nursing Process?
500
High filtration device for air in the OR.
What is HEPA?
500
Novice, Advanced Beginner, Competent, Proficient and Expert
What are Benners' levels of expertise?
500
documentaion of orientation program, performance appraisals, continuing education, updating knowledge, knowing the nurse practice act, having liability insurance