Ethics
Doctor A explains the risks and benefits of the surgical procedure to her patient. What is the Ethical concept?
What is Autonomy?
This concept protects the public and ensures that all Registered Nurses are qualified and competent to practice to the highest standard.
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
The nurse uses this communication style to encourage clients to express their feelings. These responses convey respect and acceptance and can be applied in various clinical situations.
What is Therapeutic Communication?
This concept includes music therapy, yoga, meditation, and relaxation to achieve tranquility. What is the concept?
What is Complementary or Alternative Therapy?
This term includes the state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease. What is the name of this term?
What is Health?
*** World Health Definition
What is Beneficence?
***Refers to taking positive actions to help others. The nurse acts with the client's best interests, nurses practice primarily in service to others.
What is Standard 18?
*** It also promotes a healthy and safe work place.
This concept includes an unconscious motivation and more accurately indicates intended feelings. What is this concept?
What is Non- Verbal Communication?
This concept improves patient outcomes.
What is Professional Collaboration?
This generation may include a middle-aged family member living with their aging parents. These middle-aged children are caring for their aging parents while still being responsible for their own family life, and care of their own children. What generation are we referring to?
What is the Sandwich Generation?
Nurse Tonya told her patient Mrs. Powell that she would return to her room in 30 minutes to administer her pain medication. Unfortunately, nurse Tonya was in a room with a patient who was having an emergency. So, she sent Nurse Julia to the patient's room to administer her medication. What ethical principle is displayed in this scenario?
What is Fidelity?
***Refer to the faithfulness or the agreement to keep promises.
The critical event relevant to this theory is Work and Parenthood. Adults must nurture things that will outlast them, often by having children or creating a positive change that benefits others. Success leads to feelings of usefulness and accomplishment, while failure results in shallow involvement in the world. What is the basic conflict for this theory?
What is Erickson's theory of Generativity vs Stagnation?
The nurse informed the patient that she should walk for 150 minutes weekly. What is this an example of?
What is Exercise for Health Benefits?
A client defines this concept as an individual that is important to the client.
What is Family?
This family is in conflict, and they tend to have enmeshed boundaries, scapegoating with family members, and readily use blaming as a coping mechanism. What type of family is this called?
What is a Dysfunctional Family?
Nurse Joan called her patient to inform her that her chemotherapy treatments would start tomorrow. While on the phone, the patient asked about the side effects of the medication. Nurse Joan explained that she may be weak, drowsy, and lose her hair after several treatments. What ethical term did the nurse display in this scenario?
What is Veracity?
**** Refers to telling the truth.
This theory states that moral reasoning develops in stages, beginning at age 4 years old, until adulthood.
What is Kohlberg's Theory?
This concept includes Knowledge, Standards, Attitudes, and experience. What is the concept?
What is Critical Thinking?
A lack of consistent access to enough food for every person in the household to live an active healthy life. This concept is based on factors of transportation, finances (fixed income), and limited access. What is the concept?
What food Insecurity?
This condition results in the death of an infant under age one. We recommend that infants sleep on their backs, avoid toys and stuffed animals in their cribs, and avoid smoking around infants to prevent this condition. What is the name of this condition?
What is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome(S.I.D.S)?
This concept refers to means to do no harm. What is the concept?
What is Non-Maleficence?
In this stage, which typically begins at 12 years old. The ability to use abstract reasoning to consider logical possibilities and systematically examine/test hypotheses. Developmentally, You can use abstract logic and have the potential for mature, moral reasoning. For Example, A student forms a hypothesis about a science experiment, predicts potential outcomes, systematically tests the hypothesis, and then analyzes the results. Who is the theorist responsible for this stage and what stage of development is this?
What is Piaget's Formal Operational Stage?
The conditions in the environments where people are born, live, work, play, worship, and age affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks. They negatively or positively impact health outcomes. They can include economic stability, social & community context, neighborhood & building environment, educational access & quality, and health care access and quality. What is this concept?
What are the Social Determinants of Health?
During this phase of the nursing process, data from the client is analyzed, and the nurse identifies the actual or potential health problem of the client. What component of the nursing process is the nurse referring to in this scenario?
What is the Diagnosis?
*** Answering the question-What problem have we identified?
The nurse is educating a student nurse about risk factors associated with age. The nurse informed the student that during this age period, the individual may experience weight gain or loss for no reason, have issues with sleeping or staying asleep, and start to have an unsteady gait and experience falls. What age group is the nurse referring to?
What are Health Issues with an Older Adult?