ANA Code of Ethics
Advocacy means using your knowledge and skills to do this for the patient.
Stand up for and protect the patient’s rights?
The right of a patient to make their own decisions about healthcare.
Autonomy
Failure to exercise reasonable care that results in harm to another person.
Negligence
The primary mission of the Texas Board of Nursing.
Protect the welfare of the people of Texas
Provides legal protection to healthcare workers rendering emergency care as civilians.
Good Samaritan Laws
This principle means respecting your professional obligations and doing what your job requires.
Responsibility?
The ethical principle meaning “first do no harm.”
Non-malfeasance?
A first-semester nursing student performs a skill they were not trained for. They can be this.
held liable for malpractice
This document describes scope of practice, how to obtain a license, standards, and disciplinary actions.
Nurse Practice Act?
This federal agency sets rules to ensure safe workplaces and environments.
OSHA
This means answering for your own actions, even when you are wrong
Accountability?
Providing care that actively helps and benefits the patient.
Beneficence?
Actual harmful or offensive touching of another person without their consent.
A meeting where nurses review other nurses’ performance, formally or informally.
Peer review
A law regulating use and handling of medications with high abuse potential.
Controlled Substances Act
Federal legislation that protects patient privacy and restricts sharing patient information.
HIPAA?
This principle requires treating all patients equally and fairly.
Justice
Professional misconduct that fails to meet the accepted standard of care.
Malpractice
A process that protects a nurse who feels an assignment would violate their duty to a patient.
Safe Harbor
Civil wrongs that cause harm to another person or property.
torts
Under responsibility, a nurse is responsible not only for their own actions but also for these.
Tasks they delegate to others
Keeping commitments and building trust with patients refers to this principle.
Fidelity
The three major elements that must be proven in malpractice include duty, breach of duty, and this.
Patient injury (or damages)
Delegation means giving another person a task from your practice, provided they meet this condition.
Qualified or trained to perform the task
This type of law is decided upon by Federal, State and Local officials to decide penalties for certain acts.
Criminal Law