Terms
Practice within the scope of Nurse Practice Act
Observe agency policies and procedures
Model practice after established standards by using EBP
Always put patient rights and welfare first
Include patient in their own plan of care
Document correctly and efficiently
Follow chain of command for patient complaints
What is avoidance of malpractice claims?
Care provider assumes total responsibility for patient during their time of duty.
Rules and regulations that define the care expected of professional and practical nurses.
What is Standards of Care?
Allow their employees to have the autonomy to make their own decisions and manage their own tasks.
Determines LPN's scope of practice.
What is the State Board of Nursing?
Pays for low-income persons >65 years old?
What is Medicare?
Health care personnel are assigned to complete certain tasks rather than care for specific patients.
What is functional method nursing?
Identifies minimal safe practice.
What is the National Council Licensure Examination for Practical Nurses (NCLEX-PN)?
Allows employees to participate in the decision making process.
What is democratic?
T or F
The LPN can preform the initial assessment in an acute care setting.
FALSE
Using the mind to make decisions, draw inferences and reflect.
What is critical thinking?
Ancillary personnel collaborate in providing care to a group of patients under the direction of a professional nurse.
What is team nursing?
Regulates and protects the public from practitioners who are at risk to health, safety, and welfare of the citizens within its state board jurisdiction.
What is the Nursing Practice Act?
Have ultimate authority and power over others
Do not take employees ideas into consideration when making decisions
What is autocratic?
T or F
The LPN can preform standardized discharge teaching.
TRUE
a patient safety event that reaches a patient and results in death, permanent harm, or severe temporary harm and intervention is required to sustain life.
What is a sentinel event?
Utilizes a mini-team - two or three members with at least one member being a RN.
What is modular nursing?
Moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.
What is ethics?
All employees work together to make decisions.
What is participative?
T or F
The LPN does not have to adhere to hospital policies.
FALSE
Provides managers with the opportunity to evaluate organizational performance from a systematic, scientific, and objective viewpioint
What is quality control?
Nurse assumes 24-hour responsibility for planning the care of one or more patients from admission or the start of treatment to discharge.
What is primary nursing in the inpatient setting?
Emotional maturity
Critical thinker
Responsible
What are the qualities of a good leader?
Employers inspire their employees to achieve more than they thought they could.
What is transformational leadership?
T or F
The LPN can provide care for a group of patients.
TRUE