Key Terms
Values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness abd wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and balances of the motives and ends of such actions.
What is Ethics?
What is the nurses responsbility when recieving a telephone order.
What is readback?
The act of always being legally responsbile or liable for your own actions.
What is personal liability?
Maintatin excellent standards of care, self-awareness, and effective documentation is an example of?
What are ways you prevent malpractice claims?
To be an effective advocate for a client, the nurse must give safe and effective care in accordance with what?
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
A person fully understands the choices being offered.
What is informed consent?
Leaving patients medical records unattended at the nurses station.
What is breach of HIPAA?
An obligation or debt that could be enforced by law.
What is liability?
What are factors that contribute to malpractice?
What classification of law results in imprisonment, parole, or a fine resulting from a misdemeanor or a felony.
Criminal Law
A persons ability to make judgements based on rational understanding.
What is Competence?
"The client is lying." Is an example of?
What is defamation of character?
What is employer liability?
The nurse is insensitive to the clients complaint and emotional needs.
What is a suit-proned nurse?
A failure to exercise that degree of care.
What is negligence?
Professional negligence, liability resulting from inproper practice based on standards of care required by the profession for which the person has been educated.
"If you don't stay in your bed then I will sedate you." Is an example of?
What is false Imprisonment?
What immunity do the following fall under?
- insituational
- Volunteers in health setting
- Good samaritan laws
What is charitable immunity?
You discover that a primary care provider has ordered a very large dose of pain managment medication for one of your clients. What should you do.
What is call the primary care provider?
A wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to anothers person, property, reputation, or the like and for which the injured party is entilited to compensation.
What is a tort?
Designated person that is the preferred legal decision maker if the client is incapacitated.
What is decision maker?
Doing a procedure without proper consent.
What situations would you want liability insurances for?
A client that is a persistent fault finder and critic of healthcare providers.
What is suit-prone clients?
As a new nurse, you help a coworker put a combative client who is a danger to themselves and others in restraints before getting an order. What may you be guilty of doing.
Battery