The Law
Define battery and give an example in a health care context
When a person intentionally causes harmful or offensive contact with another person
Examples: performing procedures without consent, slapping a patient, use of excessive force
Define ethnocentrism
the attitude that one's own group, ethnicity, or nationality is superior to others
Define autonomy and provide an example of how a nurse may uphold this ethical principle
Autonomy is an individual's capacity for self-determination or self-governance
Examples: Respecting a patient's right to refuse medication, respecting a patients right to make a decision regarding receiving surgery
In anticipation of a nursing shortage, the nursing management in a facility is investigating a nursing care delivery model that involves the division of tasks, with one nurse assuming the responsibility for particular tasks. What is this model called?
Functional Nursing
Define assault and give an example in a health care context
Assault refers to the wrong act of causing someone to reasonably fear imminent harm. This means that the fear must be something a reasonable person would foresee as threatening to them
Examples: threatening to place someone in restraints, threatening to overmedicate someone, threatening to withhold pain medication to a patient in a pain crisis
What is cultural competence and what are some ways a nurse can practice cultural competence?
Cultural competency means being aware of your own cultural beliefs and values and how these may be different from other cultures—including being able to learn about and honor the different cultures of those you work with
Examples: asking your Muslim patient if they have any dietary preferences before submitting a diet order, leaving your Indigenous patients cultural accessories in the same place they have placed them
Define dignity and provide an example of a way a nurse can uphold this ethical principle
Dignity is the right of a person to be valued and respected for their own sake, and to be treated ethically.
Example: providing post mortem care privately and in a way that respects the patient's body, providing privacy to a client using the bathroom
In anticipation of a nursing shortage, the nursing management in a facility is investigating a nursing care delivery model that involves staff members working under the direction of a registered nurse leader. What is this model called?
Team Nursing
Define "charting" in the health care context
A patient chart is a legal document that describes all aspects of a patient's care, including medications administered, services provided and procedures performed. Likewise, if an activity or medication is not charted- it is legally considered "not done"
What is the most important value nurses must follow when providing culturally competent care?
Nurse's care for clients in ways that respect their patients cultural values and beliefs
Define beneficence and provide an example of how a nurse may uphold this ethical principle
Beneficence refers to the ethical principle of doing good or acting in the best interest of the patient
Example: providing a high protein/healthy snack to a diabetic patient, providing a shower to your patient who has been excessively sweating
What is unique to management but is not part of leadership?
Information management
Define "invasion of privacy" and give an example of this action in a health care context
Invasion of privacy is the unjustifiable intrusion into the personal life of another without consent
Examples: taking pictures of a patient without their consent, charing patient details in a staff newsletter without their consent, posting a video of your patient to tik tok without their consent
Western medicine focuses on disease management through primary means of what action?
Medication Administration
Define fidelity and provide and example of how a nurse may uphold this ethical principle
Fidelity means to keep promises
Example: a nurse tells a patient they will return in 15 minutes and they actually return in 15 minutes
After a meeting with members of the family of a dying patient, the nursing manager discusses with you the family’s desired approach to care, and you support the manager’s decision. Your actions indicate that you are acting in what role?
Followership
Define "unintentional tort" and provide examples of this action in a health care context
Unintentional or negligence torts describe the reckless or careless behavior that resulted in the injury or harm of someone else. In nursing it is the failure to provide a standard of care to your patients ie negligence
Examples: leaving patient bed rails down cause a patient to fall out of bed, a patient choking on a medication left at the bedside
In what year did the last residential school close?
1996
Define veracity and provide an example of how a nurse may uphold this ethical principle
Veracity is the quality and action of being true, honest, or accurate
Example: a nurse does not tell a patient they will live longer in an effort to comfort them, a nurse appropriately discloses lab results to a patient who asks for them
Under which circumstances are HCA’s allowed to perform tasks with clients? Provide an example of a task that may be assigned
When tasks are assigned by an LPN or RN and they are part of the HCA competency profile
Example: ambulating a client, feeding a client, providing AM care to a 1PA