Ethics
Core Competencies
Regulatory and Statutory NP Role
Professional NP Role
Legal Considerations
100

Doing what is fair

What is Justice? 

100

Evaluates the appropriate uses of seclusion and restraints in the care process

What is quality? 

100

Grants legal authority for NP practice 

What are State legislative statues?

100

The client's right to assume that information given to the provider will not be disclosed

What is Confidentiality? 

100

Coverage for negligent professional acts

What is malpractice insurance? 

200

Promoting well being and doing good

What is beneficence? 

200

Participates in community and population-focused programs to promote health, prevent or reduce mental health problems 

What is leadership? 

200

Provides title protection 

What is Nurse Practice Act?

200

The first national comprehensive privacy protection act

What is HIPAA? 

200

NP violated the applicable standard of care in treating the client's condition

What is Breach of duty? 

300

Doing for self

What is Autonomy? 

300

Influence stakeholders to change implementation of health care

What is policy? 

300

Defines "advanced practice"

What is Nurse Practice Act?

300
Use of telephone or videoconferencing to deliver mental health care

What is telehealth? 

300

Client maintains all civil liberties except the ability to come and go as they please. 

What is Involuntary Admission? 

400

Telling the truth

What is Veracity? 

400

Develops age-appropriate treatment plans

What is Independent Practice competency 

400

Assures the public that a person has mastery of a specifc body of knowledge

What is Certification?

400

Tarasoff principle

What is exception to guaranteed confidentiality? 
400

Designates, in writing, an agent to act on behalf of a person should they become unable to make healthcare decisions

Advanced Directive

500

Being true and loyal 

What is Fidelity? 

500

Safely prescribes pharmacologic agents

Independent Practice Competency 

500

Process by which an agency of state government grants permission to person to engage in the practice of the profession

What is licensure? 

500

In cases of child or elder abuse

What is exception to confidentiality? 

500
Document prepared while client is mentally competent to designate preferences for care if becomes incompetent or terminally ill that is not legally binding in all states

What is Living Will?