Failure to act in a manner that an ordinary, prudent person would act in similar circumstances.
What is negligence?
100
This refers to the activities involved in coordinating people, time, and supplies to achieve desired outcomes.
What is management?
100
The oldest method of organizing patient care.
What is total patient care?
100
An ethical principle of compassion and patient advocacy, stating that one should do good and prevent or avoid doing harm.
What is beneficence?
200
Federally funded health insurance for disabled & persons 65 and older.
What is Medicare?
200
The intent of this law is to end discrimination against qualified persons with disabilities by removing barriers that prevent them from enjoying the same opportunities as others
What is Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990?
200
The legitimate right to direct others given to a person by the employer through an authorized position, such as a manager or administrator.
What is authority?
200
A patient care delivery model in which staff members are assigned to complete certain tasks for a group of patients rather than care for specific patients.
What is functional nursing?
200
The ethical duty to tell the truth.
What is veracity?
300
Provide financial & non financial incentives to promote high quality care.
What is pay-for-performance?
300
This law may limit a nurse’s liability or shield the nurse from malpractice claim if the nurse renders assistance in an emergency situation outside of the employment setting.
What is Good Samaritan Immunity?
300
Type of leader that focuses on day-to-day operations and are comfortable with the status quo.
What is transactional leader?
300
Ensuring that an adequate number and mix of healthcare team members are available to provide safe, quality patient care.
What is staffing?
300
The agreement to keep promises and commitments, based on the virtue of caring.
What is Fidelity?
400
A common method of reimbursement for healthcare services based on predetermined fixed price-per-case or diagnosis.
What is DRGs (diagnostic related groups)
400
“Antidumping law” that prohibits the refusal of care to indigent and uninsured patients seeking medical assistance in the ER.
What is EMTALA?
400
The theory that views the organization as a set of interdependent parts that together form a whole.
What is systems theory?
400
Clinical management plans that specify the optimal timing and sequencing of major patient care activities and interventions by the interprofessional team for a particular diagnosis, procedure, or health condition.
What is a clinical pathway?
400
Acting in accordance with fair treatment regardless of economic status, race, ethnicity, age, citizenship, disability, or sexual orientation.
What is social justice?
500
A mechanism created to provide health insurance to uninsured populations, control costs, and improve quality of care.
What is the Affordable Care Act? AKA Obamacare, PPACA
500
A legal document in which a competent Adult makes known his or her wishes regarding care that will be provided in the final stages of a terminal illness.
What is a living will?
500
The stage of change that clarifies the need to change, explore alternatives, define goals and objectives, plans the change, and implement the change.
What is moving stage?
500
Providing care that is respectful and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values and ensuring the patient values guide all clinical decisions.