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100
This type of law protects individuals' private rights and property, and is relevant to healthcare issues like patient confidentiality.
What are civil laws?
100
An adult patient weighs 165 pounds. This is their weight in kilograms, rounded to the nearest tenth.
What is 75 kg (165 lbs / 2.2)?
100
This ethical principle refers to the obligation to do good for clients.
What is beneficence?
100
The nurse who exclaims, "The care I provide is the same for everyone. I treat everyone the same," is demonstrating this inhibitor to developing cultural competence.
What is cultural blindness?
100
The use of technology like chatbots and data mining from electronic health records to support clinical decision-making.
What is artificial intelligence (AI) in nursing?
200
The failure to act in a reasonable and prudent manner, or to provide the same care that another person would under the same circumstances.
What is negligence?
200
The number of milliliters in 3 tablespoons of liquid medication.
What is 45 mL (1 Tbsp = 15 mL)?
200
This ethical principle is demonstrated when a nurse respects a patient's right to make their own informed decisions about their care.
What is autonomy?
200
The belief that the ideas, beliefs, and practices of one's own culture are superior to those of another's culture.
What is ethnocentrism?
200
This issue, a "hot topic" in a post-pandemic world, has been reported to affect over half of all nurses and is often caused by insufficient staffing and high caseloads.
What is nurse burnout (or mental health challenges)?
300
The document that describes the expectations, rights, and responsibilities of the patient while receiving care in a hospital.
What is the Patient's Bill of Rights?
300
A physician orders Furosemide 60 mg PO. The available medication is 20 mg per tablet. This is how many tablets the nurse will administer.
What are 3 tablets?
300
The nurse who acts in this role supports the patient's best interests, especially within a complex healthcare system.
What is a patient advocate (or advocacy)?
300
When caring for clients from different cultures, the nurse should demonstrate cultural competence by using this statement.
What is, "Tell me about your health care beliefs?"
300
The term for providing remote care through digital platforms, which helps bridge gaps in healthcare access for patients in rural areas and offers nurses more flexible work schedules.
What is telehealth (or virtual nursing)?
400
A nurse tells an acquaintance about a mutual friend who is hospitalized for a sexually transmitted disease, violating this law.
What is the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
400
The amount of medication to prepare in milliliters if the order is for Amoxil 275 mg and the available concentration is 500 mg/10 mL.
What is 5.5 mL (275 mg / 500 mg * 10 mL)?
400
This professional value includes acting in accordance with an appropriate code of ethics and accepted standards of practice, and demonstrating accountability for one's actions.
What is integrity?
400
The process that occurs when a minority group, living within a dominant group, takes on the values and practices of the dominant culture.
What is cultural assimilation (or acculturation)?
400
Nurses can help reduce the 5 million tons of waste hospitals produce annually by leading initiatives such as advocating for reusable products and implementing energy-saving protocols.
What is sustainability in healthcare (or environmental impact reduction)?
500
The state agency tasked with the administration and enforcement of the Nurse Practice Act.
What is the State Board of Nursing?
500
The amount of Heparin to administer in milliliters if the order is for 4,750 units subQ and the available concentration is 10,000 units per 1 mL.
What is 0.475 mL?
500
A situation where a decision must be made between two opposing alternatives when there is not an exact right or wrong answer.
What is an ethical dilemma?
500
This term describes differences in the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of diseases and other health conditions that exist among specific population groups.
What are health disparities (or health inequities)?
500
While the NCLEX pass rate is high, only 9% of new graduates report feeling fully prepared for clinical practice, sparking a focus on this new educational model.
What is competency-based education (CBE) (or the nurse readiness crisis)?