Nurses are motivated by public service not personal gain.
What is Altruism?
100
The transfer of responsibility.
What is delegation?
100
The ethical theory that stresses the rightness or wrongness of individual behaviors, duties, and obligations without concern for the consequences.
What is deontology?
100
Six rights of medication
What is right drug, right dose, right time, right route, right patient, right documentation?
100
Five steps to the nursing process.
What is assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation?
200
Five primary roles of the registered nurse.
What is care provider, educator, advocate, leader, change agent, manager, researcher, collaborator, delegator, decision maker?
200
UAP, CNA, Orderly, LPN, and RN.
Who can an RN delegate to?
200
The ethical theory that maintains that behaviors are determined to be right or wrong solely on the basis of their consequences.
What is Utilitarianism?
200
The study how a medication enters the body and moves through it and then exits the body.
What is Pharmacokinetics?
200
Six characteristics of the nursing process.
What is analytical, dynamic, organized, outcome oriented, collaborative, and adaptable?
300
The most essential skill of nurses.
What is communication?
300
The first principle of delegation.
What is knowledge of the nurse practice act when it comes to delegation?
300
The ethical principle that relies on self-determination.
What is autonomy?
300
High potential for abuse; may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.
What is Schedule II drugs?
300
A formal, structured discussion in which the nurse questions the patient to obtain demographic information, data about current health concerns and medical and surgical histories.
What is patient interview?
400
Four types of defense mechanisms or nontherapeutic communication.
What is compensation, denial, displacement, introjection, projection, rationalization, regression, repression, sublimation, and suppression?
400
Happens after delegation occurs.
What is follow up?
400
The ethical principle defined as "doing good".
What is beneficence?
400
Severe, unintended, unwanted and often unpredictable drug reactions.
What is adverse effects?
400
Six levels of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in order of priority.
What is physiologic needs, safety and security, love and belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization?
500
Often used synonymously with problem solving, decision making, reasoning, or judgment.
What is critical thinking?
500
The five rights of delegation
What is the right task, right person, right circumstance, right communication, right supervision?
500
Two types of unintentional torts.
What is negligence and malpractice?
500
Five forms of medication routes.
What is oral, sublingual, buccal, topical, transdermal, inhalation, and parenteral?
500
Three parts of an actual nursing diagnosis.
What is diagnosis label, related factors, and defining characteristics?