LAW
Follows a chain of legislative command, with the Constitution of the United States (US) being the highest in the hierarchy of enacted written law.
What is Statutory Law?
Health Care liability to met the standard of care encourages appropriate professional conduct and protects the public.
What is Reasonable Care (Standard of Care)?
The nurse remains responsible for the task outcome.
What is delegation?
The patient is tied to bed.
What is restraints?
Enters a mental health facility by a police officer for mental health problem.
What is involuntary Inpatient Care?
Are either civil or criminal designed to protect individual rights.
What is Statutory Law?
The nurse assumes care of patient medically and psychological and is expected to act with professional conduct and protect the public.
What is Standard of Care (Reasonable Care)?
Has it's roots in principles of individual autonomy and independence. The right to make own health care choices for treatment.
What is Self-Determine, Give consent, or refuse treatment?
Can not PRN orders aka (As needed).
What are orders for restraints?
Patient leaves mental health care that they walk into on their own for mental health concern, but then states "want to hurt my neighbor".
What is the voluntary inpatient care turns into a involuntary inpatient care.
Legal principles applied to cases based on evolving reasons, opinions, and precedents cited in previous court cases.
What is Common Law?
The nurse practices in a standard of prudence and caution defined by the degree of skill and knowledge expected by reasonable nurses in the care and treatment of patients as described in the Nurse Practice Act, federal and state laws, and policies of their healthcare institution.
What is the definition of Standard of Care (Reasonable Care)?
Protected by the PDSA passed by US Congress
What is Self-Determination Act (PDSA)
1. Is not seen as therapeutic.
2. The client has the right to this.
Restraints and Seclusion?
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
The nurse show apprehension of physical contact?
The nurse slapped the patient across the face because he cussed at the nurse.
The unlawful restraint of an individual's personal liberty or the unlawful confinement of an individual.
What is assault?
What is battery?
What is False Imprisonment?
A third source of law which are public laws issued by administrative or government agencies authorized by statute to administer the enacted laws of federal and state governments.
What is Administrative Law?
A legal obligation imposed on a person who is in a position to perform an action that could potentially hard mothers (by acting or not acting).
What is Duty of Care?
Differs in scope between states and is generally based on the following ideas: Ability to communicate choices, understand information, relevant to the situation and its consequences, and compare risks and benefits of treatment decisions.
What is competency?
Have been replaced with milieu interventions.
What are restraints and seclusion?
Commitment timelines/status that are devided into three common categories:
What is emergency care (acute stabilization)?
What is short-term observation and treatment?
What is Long-term commitment (3, 6, 12 months)
Three basic sources of Law.
What are Statutory Laws?
What are Common Laws?
What are Administrative Laws?
The failure to provide reasonable standard of care owed to a person. This is failure to include either doing or refraining from doing that particular act in a circumstance, where risk of harm exists.
What is Breach of Duty?
NOTE: Only after a court decides that a person is not competent to understand the need for treatment or act in their own best interest, can medications or other treatments be imposed on that person.
What is Incompetence?
A client that enters a mental health facility to seek help for a mental health problem is consider what type of care?
What is Voluntary Inpatient Care?
Short-Term and Long-Term Commitment
What is review page 27 chapter 3 in new book?
Four elements that must be present for a plaintiff to recover damages caused by negligence.
What is Duty of Care?
What is an obligation of reasonable care?
What is Breach of duty?
What is Injury proximately caused by a breach of duty?
Is a personal wrongdoing described as the failure to perform care that is ethically expected or what a reasonably careful person would do under the same circumstances.
What is Negligence?
Close your eyes and pretend to be in the clinical setting, like sim lab. You are able to use critical thinking skills, like the patient is in front of you, able to picture what should be done next!
Note: Pretend your in the patient's room if you get stuck on a question and think what would I do first in the situation?
Will be in a form of a situation that can deal with different situations and you have to be able to critical think through it.
What is a test questions in nursing?
Note: remember when you know the definitions of something you are able to answer test question scenarios. It's not just about memorizing, but about applying what you know to critical thinking, delegation, prioritizing, etc.
All states are Susceptible to involuntary commitment. These are types of behaviors that all states recognize as criteria to involuntary admission to a mental health facility for an evaluation.
What is see answers on page 27 Table 3.1 Types of behaviors?