Legal/Ethical
An ethical concept when a nurse acknowledges a client's request for pain medication, assess their pain level, and returns with pain medication.
What is fidelity?
A longitudinal record of health that includes the information from inpatient and outpatient episodes of healthcare from one or more care settings.
What is the electronic health record?
Right task, right person, right circumstance, right communication, right supervision.
What is the 5 rights of delegation?
The unique ability of a client to understand and integrate health related knowledge.
What is health literacy?
An illness that has an abrupt onset and short duration < 6 months.
What is an acute illness?
"A succinct statement of ethical values, obligations, duties, and professional ideas of nurses individually and collectively."
What is the Code of Ethics for Nurses?
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What are do not use abbreviations?
Assessment, planning, evaluation, education, or accountability.
What are task the RN cannot delegate?
This type of learning recognizes the emotional component of integrating new knowledge.
What is affective domain?
A client is having a TB skin test done.
What is secondary prevention?
Preventing clients from leaving a health care facility at their request.
What is false imprisonment?
Problem, Intervention, Evaluation
What is a PIE note?
The nurse assigns the UAP to provide am care for clients.
What is appropriate delegation?
The nurse is having the client to practice checking their blood sugar with a glucometer at each timed glucometer check.
What is repetition?
The goal of this type of prevention is to modify risk factors to avoid the onset of disease and prevent pathological processes from occurring.
What is primary prevention?
Permission granted by a client after discussion with a physician, surgeon, or nurse practitioner performing a procedure; the discussion includes exact details of the treatment, necessity of treatment, benefits and risk involved, alternatives to treatment, risk of treatment refusal.
What is informed consent?
Real time process of passing client specific information from one caregiver to another or among interdisciplinary team members to ensure continuity of care and safety.
What is hand off report?
The RN delegates discharge education of a client to the LPN.
Which is inappropriate delegation?
The nurse is planning an education session for a client who does not speak English. The nurse will contact:
What is an interpreter?
The person views health as a positive, dynamic state of well being rather than the absence of disease in the physiologic state.
What is the Health Promotion Model?
Specifies treatment a person wants to receive when they are unconscious or no longer capable to make decisions independently.
What is a living will?
What is a sentinel event?
The RN delegates a dressing change to the LPN?
What is appropriate delegation?
The most effective type of education in nursing.
What is the teach-back method?
This model is used to determine the client's readiness to act.
What is the Health Belief Model?