Professionalism
Legal Standards
Nursing as a Profession
Professional Responsibilities and Roles
Torts
100
Protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.
What is American Nurses Association (ANA) definition of NURSING?
100
Defines the scope of nursing practice; distinguishes between nursing and medical practice; establishes education and licensure requirements for nurses.
What is Nurse Practice Acts?
100
Describes a competent level of nursing care. The levels of care are demonstrated by the critical thinking model.
What is Standards of Practice by the ANA?
100
Essential element of professional nursing that involves the initiation of independent nursing interventions/actions.
What is Autonomy?
100
Conduct that falls below a standard of care; example is a person runs a stop sign acts unreasonably in failing to stop at a stop sign.
What is negligence?
200
Should be the Center of your practice.
Who is the patient and his family and/or community?
200
Living wills, health care proxies, and durable powers of attorney for health care represent this.
What is Advance Directives?
200
Assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification and planning, implementation, and evaluation.
What is The critical thinking model known as the NURSING PROCESS included in the ANA Standards of Practice
200
You help patients maintain and regain health, manage disease and symptoms, and attain a maximal level function and independence through the healing process. You need to meet all health care needs of the patient by providing measures that restore a patient's emotional, spiritual, and social well-being. You help the patient and family set goals and assist them with meeting these goals.
What is definition of Caregiver?
200
One type of negligence and often referred to as professional negligence; results when nursing care falls below a standard of care; failure to use that degree of skill or learning ordinarily used under the same or similar circumstances by members of the nursing profession; failing to check a patient's identification correctly and blood is given to the wrong patient.
What is Malpractice?
300
As a professional nurse you will learn to deliver care with compassion, caring, and respect for each patient's dignity and personhood and base your practice on a body of knowledge that is continually changing with new discoveries and innovations.
What is the art and science of nursing?
300
Suspends or revokes a license if a nurse's conduct violates provisions in the licensing statute.
What is the State Board of Nursing?
300
Associate 2 year program, 4 year Baccalaureate program, 3 year Diploma program
What is the various education preparations for an individual intending to be an Registered Nurse?
300
You protect your patient's human and legal rights and provide assistance in asserting these rights if the need arises. You act on behalf of your patient and secure your patient's health care rights and stand up for them. You find an interpreter to help family members communicate their concerns when they do not speak English as a primary language.
What is being a patient advocate?
300
Follow standards of care, give competent health care, and communicate with other health care providers; develop a caring rapport with the patient; document assessments, interventions, and evaluations fully; know and follow the policies and procedures of the institution where you work; communicate with the patient, explain tests and treatments, listen to the patient's concerns; be certain documentation is legible and signed.
What is Ways to Avoid Malpractice?
400
Autonomy, Knowledge, Competence, Accountability, Advocacy, Collaborative Practice, Committment represent
What is Scope of Professionalism (scope of professional identity in nursing)?
400
A person's agreement to allow something to happen such as surgery based on a full disclosure of risks, benefits, alternatives, and consequences of refusal; creates a legal duty for the health care provider to disclose material facts in terms the patient is able to understand.
What is Informed Consent?
400
An organization that students can participate in which considers issues of importance to nursing students such as career development and preparation for licensing.
What is The Student Nurses Association?
400
You explain procedures such as vital signs, injections, and activities of daily living. You answer questions as posed by the patient and family.
What is being an educator?
400
Should never be assigned to perform tasks for which they are unprepared; should be carefully supervised as learn new skills; expected to perform as professional nurses would in providing safe patient care; liable if actions cause harm to patients;
Who are Nursing Students?
500
Ability to answer for one's actions. Your professional actions are explainable to your patients and your employer.
What is ACCOUNTABILITY?
500
Protects private patient information once it has been disclosed in health care settings; example: avoid talking about patients is the cafeteria or on the elevator.
What is Confidentiality?
500
Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care. Demonstrate knowledge of basic scientific methods. Appreciate the importance of regularly reading relevant journals.
What is definition and example of Evidence-Based Practice?
500
This allows you to know your patients, including their strengths and weaknesses, and their needs. This is essential for all nursing roles and activities. This is continually done with patients, families, other nurses and health care professionals. You use this to give comfort and emotional support, give care effectively, make decisions, coordinate and manage patient care, and provide education.
What is Communicator?
500
Failure to monitor in timely fashion; failure to follow orders; failure to notify the health care provider of problems; failure to follow policies and procedures; failure to ensure patient safety; failure to document the monitoring; failure to use proper equipment to monitor the patient.
What is Common Negligent Acts?
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