Ethics & Law
THIS INCLUDES LIVING WILL AND DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY
WHAT IS ADVANCE DIRECTIVES?
THIS INVOLVES INFORMING, SHOWING AND RETURN DEMONSTRATION
WHAT IS PATIENT TEACHING?
Relationship of the spirit to the body, mind, and environment
WHAT IS SPIRITUALITY?
TESTING FOR OCCULT BLOOD IN STOOL
WHAT IS GUIAIC TESTING?
Providing instructions, prescriptions, and patient teaching
what is discharge?
Written by the health-care provider
WHAT IS DNAR?
patient who states, “I don’t need anything from you. Leave me alone!”
WHAT IS ANGER?
preconceived idea about an individual solely based on physical appearance or a characteristic of his or her social or cultural group.
WHAT IS PREJUDICE?
LABS CHECKING FOR VIRAL OR BACTERIAL INFECTION
WHAT IS WBC?
Data collection (initial assessment by the RN)
WHAT IS ADMISSIONS?
To purposely threaten physical harm to an individual
WHAT IS ASSAULT?
PATIENT IS NONRESPONSIVE, SLOW AND THREADY PULSE, MOTTLING SKIN
WHAT IS APPROACHING END OF LIFE?
The nurse makes a commitment to consider the cultural background of each patient and to provide appropriate care specific to that individual
WHAT IS CULTURAL COMPETENCE?
a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to the body's tissues and organs, and returns carbon dioxide to the lungs
WHAT IS HEMOGLOBIN?
This occurs when the environment is favorable, but health is not
WHAT IS PROTECTED POOR HEALTH?
Injury, loss, or damage to a patient because of failure to provide a reasonable standard of care or demonstrate a reasonable level of skill
WHAT IS MALPRACTICE?
TEACHING A PATIENT BY CHOPPING UP FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
WHAT IS A KINESTHETIC LEARNER?
An intervention should the nurse use to address this patient’s spiritual distress?
WHAT IS BE PRESENT?
measure the number of red blood cells in the blood.
WHAT IS CBC?
The ability of individuals to understand basic health information and to use it to make good decisions about their health
WHAT IS HEALTH LITERACY?
Each state has one and it defines the scope of nursing within its state.
What is Nurse practice act?
Medications, treatments, and various therapies are provided with the intent of healing or curing a patient’s illness
WHAT IS CURATIVE CARE?
the professional actions and mutual decisions that help people to reorder, change, modify, or restructure their lifeways and institutions for better (or beneficial) health-care patterns, practices, or outcomes.
WHAT IS CULTURAL RECONSTRUCTING
checks for color, odor, appearance, specific gravity, pH, glucose, protein, ketones
what is Urinalysis?
ILLNESS WITH PERIODS OF REMISSION OR EXACERBATION
WHAT IS CHRONIC ILLNESS?