Exam 1
1. Patient's right to refuse medications, treatment or any plan of care?
2. Equity in distribution of health care
3. Telling the truth to patients even though prognosis is poor
1. Autonomy
2. Justice
3. Veracity
A 10 year national objectives for promoting health and preventing disease for all Americans.
Healthy People 2020
The nurse assess and gather information about the patient condition
Assessment
An umbrella term which encompasses Norms, shared values, customs and traditions passed on through generations.
Culture
What the nurse observes such as vital signs, labs or diagnostics
Objective data
Refers to the ability of a registered nurse (or any other professional) to answer for one's actions?
Accountability
A model that nurses use to understand the interrelationships of basic human needs.
Maslow hierachy of needs
Which patient the nurse should see FIRST?
A. Patient who is confused and high fall risk
B. Patient in 8/10 pain
C. Patient who is bleeding
D. Patient with labored breathing and struggling.
D. Patient with labored breathing and struggling.
Remember Maslow
Remember ABC.
Curiosity about other ways of being in the world
Cultural awareness
Preorientation
Orientation
Working
Termination
The 4 phases of therapeutic working relationship with the patient
UAP reports that patient is having shortness of breath. The nurse should do this first?
A. Diagnose patient with SOB
B. Evaluate her interventions
C. Raise the head of bed
D. Check vital signs
D. Check Vital signs
Bob drinks 15 beer daily and states "Im just unwinding after a long day at work, everyone does it". What phase of change is Bob in?
Precontemplation phase.
This organization exists to advance the nursing profession by: Fostering high standards of nursing practice; Promoting a safe and ethical work environment; Bolstering the health and wellness of nurses
American Nurses Association
Etiology
Related to
As evidenced by
3 parts of nursing process
In case of child abuse or domestic violence the nurse has the responsibility to
Report child abuse or domestic violence because she is a mandatory reporter.
bad/unwise decisions made by patient inspite of the best counselling
Autonomy/self determination
Levels of prevention:
Focuses on individuals who are experiencing health problems or illnesses.
Secondary level of prevention
Patient verbal descriptions of their health problems
Ex: "I am dizzy".
"My pain is 10/10".
Subjective data
Differences among populations in the availability, accessibility and quality of health services
Health care disparities
This level of prevention is concerned with limiting and reducing complications and dysfunction related to the experience of substance or behavioral abuse and addiction.
Tertiary process
The nurse aware patient is confused but failed to implement any care plan for the safety of the patient. The nurse violated which code of Ethics?
NonMaleficence
Occurs post illness when disability is permanent and irreversible. The objective is to maximize the quality of life post injury.
Tertiary level of prevention
A clinical judgement concerning a human response to health conditions
Nursing Diagnosis
Care that fits in a person's life patterns, values, beliefs and system of meaning
Culturally congruent care
Caregiver
Advocate
Educator
Manager
The roles of nurses