The Law
An example of this is a nurse performs a nursing procedure that she has not been taught but that is within her scope of practice. A client is injured.
What is negligence?
This step is formulating tentative solutions and choose the preferred solution.
What is step 4 of the Scientific Problem Solving method.
This process is taking a client from a clear liquid diet to a regular diet slowly over a specific period of time.
What is advancing a diet?
This is the diffusion of a pure solvent, such as water, across a semipermeable membrane in response to a concentration gradient.
What is Osmosis?
This is the systematic and continuous collection of data.
What is the nursing Assessment?
This is a situation where a nurse has taken a picture of a client without their explicit consent.
What is a HIPPA violation?
This step included planning action to test suggested solutions
What is the second step of the Scientific problem solving method.
"If you didn't ________ it, it didn't happen."
What is document?
This fluid is the most important regulated aspect of the bodies fluid balance and without it the body cannot maintain normal blood pressure.
What is extracellular fluid volume?
These are actions that nurses perform in collaboration with other disciplines.
What are interdependent actions?
This is the governing body that has the power to initiate, regulate, and enforce the provisions of the Nurse Practice Act.
Who is the State Board of Nursing?
This step is evaluating the solution, either concluding or revising the study to test the solution again if results are unsatisfactory.
What is the 7 step of the Scientific problem solving method.
This documents all the medications ordered for a patient. It records who gave the medication and when it was given.
What is the Medication Administration Record or MAR?
This is a fluid deficiency in the body that causes an increase in electrolyte imbalances.
What is dehydration?
What are nursing outcomes?
A man has collapsed in the middle of the road and you break his arm while moving him to safety.
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
This is a problem solving approach that test ideas to decide which methods work and which do not.
What is trial and error problem solving?
This type of pain lasts for longer than 6 months and affects an individuals normal functioning.
What is chronic pain?
This is an excess of accumulation of fluid in interstitial spaces.
What is edema?
This is an individualized document that guides patient care.
What is a nursing care plan?
An example of this are people who are socioeconomically disadvantaged, children, elderly, under insured, laboring women, etc.
What is a vulnerable population?
This is when all procedures, treatments, tests, and medications have been fully explained to the patient and treatment alternatives have been offered.
What is informed consent?
This is a wizard that cannot perform magic.
What is a squib?
This is fluid that functions as a stabilizer for the parts of the cell and helps maintain cell shape.
What is intracellular fluid?
This is a three part statement that contains the problem, etiology, and signs and symptoms.
What is the nursing diagnosis?