Basics
a tool for identifying patients’ problems or potential problems and an organized method for meeting patients’ needs
What is The Nursing Process?
PROTECT HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS FROM LIABILITY IF THEY STOP TO PROVIDE AID IN AN EMERGENCY.
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
E RULES OF CONDUCT THAT HAVE BEEN AGREED TO BY A PARTICULAR GROUP. THEY ARE BASED ON THE CONSENSUS (AGREEMENT) OF THE GROUP THAT THESE RULES ARE MORALLY RIGHT OR PROPER.
What are ethics?
WRITTEN STATEMENT EXPRESSING THE PATIENT’S WISHES REGARDING FUTURE CONSENT FOR OR REFUSAL OF TREATMENT IF THE PATIENT IS INCAPABLE OF PARTICIPATING IN DECISION MAKING.
What is an advance directive?
Measurable and observable data
What is objective data?
This step involves generating solutions for each problem statement/nursing diagnosis.
What is Planning?
DEVELOPED NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY GOALS TO PROMOTE SPECIFIC IMPROVEMENTS IN PATIENT SAFETY.
WHO IS THE JOINT COMMISSION?
To do the most good
what is beneficence?
DEALS WITH POTENTIAL WRONGDOING OF A PERSON AGAINST ANOTHER PERSON.
What is a Civil Law (Tort)?
concerned with one very specific problem, may be performed before a total assessment and data collection and analysis are completed
What if a focused assessment?
critical thinking inside the clinical setting
What is clinical reasoning?
PROTECT THE WAY THAT PATIENT INFORMATION IS CONVEYED AND STORED AND TO WHOM INFORMATION MAY BE REVEALED.
What is Health Information Protection and Portability Act (HIPPA)?
respecting or advocating for someone's self determination
what is autonomy?
LEGAL ASSIGNMENT OF THE ABILITY TO MAKE HEALTH CARE DECISIONS FOR ANOTHER PERSON
What is a medical/durable power of attorney?
A record procedures done, organs removed, type of incision, drains or equipment in place, blood loss, problems during surgery
What is a Surgical/Operative Report?
effective reading, effective writing, attentive listening, and effective communication.
What are foundation skills for critical thinking?
DUTY, A BREACH OF DUTY, CAUSATION, AND INJURY
What are the 4 elements required for Malpractice?
THE ACT OF ENDING ANOTHER PERSON’S LIFE, WITH OR WITHOUT THE PERSON’S CONSENT, TO END ACTUAL OR POTENTIAL SUFFERING.
What is Euthanasia?
THE HIGHEST COURT TO WHICH AN APPEAL OF A COURT DECISION CAN BE BROUGHT
inspection, auscultation, palpation, percussion
what is the order of an abdominal assessment?
the order of importance: usually based on the adaptation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
What is Prioritization?
PASSED IN 1970 TO IMPROVE THE WORK ENVIRONMENT: EACH FACILITY IS REQUIRED TO KEEP A RECORD OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES AND MAINTAIN SAFETY DATA SHEETS
What is the OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION?
a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two courses of action, either of which entails transgressing a moral principle.
What is an ethical dilemma?
A JUDICIAL DECISION THAT IS USED AS A GUIDE IN INTERPRETING THE LAW AND DECIDING CASES AFTERWARD
What is a precident?
required on days 14, 30, 60, and 90 for Medicare patients
What is a reassessment by an RN?