Ethical Terms
Refers to a person's right to choose and ability to act on that choice.
What is autonomy?
Name the National League of Nursing Competencies.
What is human flourishing, nursing judgement, professional identity, and spirit of inquiry?
Being responsible professionally and legally for the type and quality of nursing care provided
What is accountability?
Function effectively within the nursing and inter-professional teams; fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision making.
What is teamwork and collaboration?
Obligation to keep promises
What is fidelity?
Examining the current clinical nursing practice; challenging the status quo; questioning underlying assumptions, and offer new insights to improve the quality of care.
What is spirit of inquiry?
Coordinates nursing staff delivering nursing care and has personnel, policy, and budgetary responsibility for a specific nursing unit.
What is a nurse manager?
Duty to do or promote good
What is beneficence?
An evolving identity as a nurse to implement core values such as: evidence-based practice, caring, advocacy, and safe, quality care for diverse patients.
What is professional identity?
Initiation of independent nursing interventions without medical orders.
What is nurse autonomy?
Using data to monitor the outcomes of care processes; using enhancement methods to design and test changes; better the quality and safety of health care systems
What is quality improvement?
Twofold duty: to do no harm and to prevent harm
What is nonmaleficence?
Advocate for patients and families that promotes self-determination, integrity, and ongoing growth as human beings.
What is human flourishing?
Involves describing, demonstrating, reinforcing, and evaluating explanation of health concepts and facts.
What is a nurse educator?
Integrating best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
What is evidence based practice?
Promoted through open discussion without fear of recrimination whenever mistakes happen, especially those involving adverse events, occur. Enables to design new systems to prevent harm.
What is just culture?
The provision of safe, quality care through promotion of critical thinking, clinical judgement, and integration of evidence based practice.
What is nursing judgement?
Acting on behalf of client; protecting a client's human and legal rights.
What is a nurse advocate?
Minimizing risk of harm to patients and providers
What is safety?