ANA Standards of Practice
RN collects comprehensive data pertinent to patient's health and situation
What is Assessment?
The RN teaches the patient about exercise, yoga and meditation classes.
What is Primary Prevention?
Taking positive actions to help others.
What is beneficence?
The RN threatens to give the patient a shot of Haldol if they do not quiet down.
What is Assault?
The patient decides that he does not want heroic measures taken to save his life. What document does he sign?
What is a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate)?
The RN evaluates progress toward attainment of outcomes.
What is Evaluation?
A patient gets a flu shot every year.
What is Primary Prevention?
RN keeps her promises to her patient.
What is Fidelity?
The patient wants to leave the hospital but the RN confines a patient to his bed.
What is false imprisonment?
The patient signs a document stating his wishes in the event of a terminal illness or condition.
What is a Living Will?
The RN analyzes the assessment data to determine the issues.
What is Diagnosis?
The patient attends cardiovascular and pulmonary rehabilitation.
What is Tertiary Prevention?
Patient was confused about his surgical procedure after the doctor left and was unsure about signing the Informed Consent. The RN calls that doctor and tells him/her that the patient has more questions.
What is Patient Advocate?
The RN does not implement a doctor's new STAT order for 4 hours.
What is negligence?
The patient names an individual to make decisions for them if they are incapacitated.
What is a Power of Attorney?
The RN implements the identified plan.
What is Implementation or Interventions?
A patient with high blood pressure monitors his blood pressure at home twice a day.
What is Secondary Prevention?
What is Confidentiality?
The RN gives the patient an injection of Vitamin K even though the patient said that they did not want to receive it.
What is battery?
You are driving by a car accident and stop to help perform CPR. The motorist does not recover and passes away. The family sues you but you are not liable due to this law.
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
The RN identifies develops a plan and expected outcomes for the patient
What is Planning & Outcomes?
A woman gets her annual mammogram examination.
What is Secondary Prevention?
The doctor performs a bone marrow transplant which is painful to the patient, but may offer a chance at cure and a positive outcome.
What is nonmaleficence?
The RN delegates taking out a Foley catheter to the unlicensed nursing assistant.
What is negligence?
This document is signed to verify that the patient understands the benefits and risks of a procedure he/she is about to undergo.
What is an Informed Consent?