ASSESSMENT
Gathering historical information about the patient is part of this assessment.
What is comprehensive assessment?
A shortened form of word, symbols, or acronyms used as a form of documentation.
What are approved abbreviations?
The willful inflection of injury, confinement, intimidation, physical harm or mental anguish.
What is abuse ?
This code provides ethical and legal guidance to all members of the nursing profession.
What is the "Nursing Code of Ethics" ?
A form signed by patient or responsible party prior to a procedure or administration of an antipsychotic medication.
What is Informed Consent?
The patient's ability to perform tasks required for living is part of this assessment.
What is functional assessment?
Drugs, Dose, Patient,Route, Time & Documentation are included in what right?
What are the 6 rights of Medication Administration?
The refusal or failure to provide goods or services that are necessary to avoid physical or emotional harm, pain or mental illness.
What is neglect ?
Rules and regulations set out by the TX. BON can be found in this document.
What is the Nursing Practice Act ?
When administering medications to a resident with a G-tube the nurse must know to flush tube with water and the no crush list.
What medications can not be crushed ?
Data that the nurse gathers from observing and assessing the patient is called this.
What is subjective data?
This liquid should never be used to correct documentation errors.
What is "White Out"?
The illegal or improper use of an elder's funds, property or assets.
What is Exploitation ?
Information related to nursing scope of practice for CNAs, LVNs, & RNs can be found here.
What is the Texas Board of Nursing?
Absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion are actions for each medication.
What are medication properties ?
Increased risk for adverse drug events in older patients that are prescribed many medications by multiple providers can cause this problem.
What is polypharmacy?
An efficient way to communicate patient information during written and verbal report is done using this method.
What is an "SBAR"?
Nurses are mandated by law to report situations that may be abuse or neglect to this agency.
What is DADS Consumer Rights Services ?
The facility Director reports to TX. BON
This process is a means of evaluation of nursing services, qualifications of a nurse & quality of patient care.
What is a "Peer Review" ?
There is a name for this electronic record keeping legal document.
What is the Medication Administration Record?
Older patients need this type of assessment for visual acuity, hearing loss, balance, hemiparesis and paraplegia.
What is risk assessment?
Who, What, When, Where, How, Outcome and Follow up are components of this method.
What are components of "Good Documentation" ?
Factors concerning the patient include; gender, age, functional & mental capacity which may lead to these risks.
What are risk factors for becoming a victim of (ANE) Abuse, Neglect or Exploitation ?
Spaces between the nurse's power and the vulnerability experienced by the patient.
What are "Professional Boundaries" ?
Complete this sentence: " If it is not documented"...
What is "it wasn't done."?