Nursing & The Health Care System
These are specific actions a nurse performs to help a patient achieve expected outcomes, prevent complications, or improve health status.
What are nursing interventions?
This refers to a health condition that develops as a result of another primary disease, injury, or its treatment. For example, peripheral vascular disease resulting from diabetes.
What is a secondary illness?
This state-specific law defines the scope of nursing practice, outlines licensure requirements, and establishes standards to protect public safety. Each state writes its own, so they may differ from state to state.
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
This type of leadership is characterized by minimal guidance, allowing team members to make most decisions on their own.
What is laissez-faire leadership?
This part of the nursing process is when data is collected by recognizing cues. The RN does the initial part, the LPN assists by continually collecting data.
What is the assessment?
The LPN provides nursing care by performing assigned tasks and interventions while working under the direct supervision of this health care member.
Who is the RN?
This part of the autonomic nervous system prepares the body for stress by increasing heart rate, dilating bronchi, and redirecting blood flow to muscles (fight or flight).
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
An unexpected patient care event that results in a death or serious injury (or risk of such) to the patient. These arereported and tracked by the Joint Commission.
What is a sentinel event (never event)?
Known as the “Lady with the Lamp,” she is considered the founder of modern nursing and emphasized sanitation, hygiene, and patient-centered care during the Crimean War.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This type of data collected is seen, heard, measured, or felt by the person carrying out the assessment.
What is objective data?
This approach to patient care combines the best current research, clinical expertise, and patient preferences to improve healthcare outcomes.
What is evidence-based practice?
When a patient does not take prescribed medications due to beliefs, traditions, or health practices, the nurse should first do this to provide culturally competent care.
What is assess the patient’s cultural beliefs
This federal law requires nurses and other healthcare providers to protect patients’ personal health information and maintain confidentiality. Failure to comply with these rules may lead to civil penalties.
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996?
When a patient chooses to leave the hospital against medical advice, the nurse must ensure this is completed, documenting the patient’s understanding of the risks and their decision.
What is an AMA form or
What is documenting AMA?
This stage of the nursing process involves determining whether the patient’s goals and expected outcomes have been met and deciding if the care plan should be continued, modified, or stopped.
What is the evaluation stage?
These are authoritative statements that describe the responsibilities, duties, and expected level of care that nurses must follow to ensure safe and competent practice. The most recent revision of these was published in 2021 by the American Nurses Association.
What are the Standards of Nursing Practice
This U.S. initiative sets data-driven national objectives to improve health, prevent disease, and eliminate health disparities by the year 2030.
What is Healthy People 2030
This structured communication tool used by nurses during handoffs or reporting to other healthcare providers stands for Introduction, Situation, Assessment, Background, Recommendation, and sometimes Read-back.
What is ISBAR-R?
Even after an LPN delegates a task to another team member, they remain responsible for this aspect of the patient’s care.
What is accountability?
This part of the nursing process involves the actions a nurse takes to help a patient achieve goals, prevent complications, or improve health outcomes. These are sometimes referred to as nursing orders.
What are nurse interventions?
This type of health insurance plan requires members to choose a primary care provider, obtain referrals for specialists, and typically limits coverage to providers within its network.
What is a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)?
With Selye's adaptation syndrome, if the resistant phase is prolonged, the response becomes maladaptive and a pathologic condition occurs, which can result in these diseases and disorders.
What are headaches, gastritis, asthma, low back pain, connective tissue disease, ulcerative colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, allergies, hypertension, cancer, sexual dysfunction, Crohn's disease, eating disorders, and infection?
A patient under 18 years of age, an unconscious patient, a patient under the influence of mind-altering medications, a patient who has been declared mentally incompetent
Who are patients who can not sign an informed consent?
When these therapies are used instead of traditional medical care, they are referred to as alternative therapies. When used alongside traditional medicine, they are referred to as complementary therapies.
What are integrative health approaches?
According to this theory, nurses should prioritize patient care by meeting the most basic needs like food, water, and oxygen before addressing higher-level needs such as love, esteem, and self-actualization.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?