Legal & Ethics in Nursing
The federal Law that protects the health information of patients
What is HIPAA?
This is the most important technique to use in preventing and controlling transmission of infection.
What is hand hygiene? Gel in and out!
By definition, SUBJECTIVE data is this.
What is/are the client's statements?
Hint: use quotation marks whenever possible.
The professional nurse offers care without incorporating their own values and beliefs and respects the values beliefs and background of the client.
What is culturally competent care?
9:00pm in military time.
What is 2100?
Do no harm
What is nonmaleficence?
Two patient identifiers prior to medication administration.
What are name and date of birth?
By definition, OBJECTIVE data is this.
What is a description resulting from direct observation and measurement?
Knowledge, Advocacy, Accountability, Collegiality and Collaboration, Autonomy, Ethics, and Values
What are characteristics of a professional?
You walk in on a coworker taking a medication that was ordered for a patient. What do you do?
What is report the incident to the nurse supervisor immediately.
Freedom of personal choice, a right to be independent and make decisions freely.
What is autonomy?
What are strategies to prevent falls?
Ensuring side rails are up, call light is in reach, bedside table or tray is in reach, and hourly rounding
The 5 steps of the nursing process.
What is Assessment, Diagnosis/Analysis, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation?
Two types of communication.
What are verbal and non-verbal?
Absence of due care; failure to act in a manner demonstrating the care and knowledge any prudent individual would.
What is negligence?
These are used to control a client's behavior. May be chemical or physical.
What are restraints?
These are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and within a specified time frame.
What is a SMART goal?
Tool to prioritize care based on human needs.
What is Maslow's Heirarchy of needs?
A nursing organization that has established a code of ethics, and standards of care for the profession, and is involved in healthcare policy at the state and national level
What is the American Nurses Association
The laws that formally define and limit the scope of nursing practice.
What are Nurse Practice Acts?
Eight rights of medication administration.
What are Time, Route, Amount/Dose, Medication, Patient, Allergies, Documentation, Education, Evaluation/Response, Right to Refuse?
A problem-solving tool used to identify and treat clients' healthcare needs.
What is the nursing process?
The nurse offers care without incorporating their own beliefs and values and respects the values and beliefs of the patient.
What is culturally competent nursing care?
Phenytoin (Dilantin), 16 g PO, is ordered to be given through a nasogastric tube. Phenytoin is available as 15,000 mg / 2 mL. The nurse should draw up this much of the medicine. (Round to the nearest tenths place.)
What is 2.1 mL?