Personal Values
A personal belief about the worth of a given idea, attitude, custom, or object that sets standards that influence behaviors
What is value?
This is an intentional threat towards another person that places the person in reasonable fear of harmful, imminent, or unwelcome contact. No contact is required for this to occur.
What is assault?
This is completed when there is a deviation from the standard of care such as when a client falls or a medication error occurs.
What is an occurrence report?
This refers to a clients independence.
What is autonomy?
This exists when the right thing to do is not clear, when team members can't agree on the right thing to do, or when the team and patient/family disagrees with the plan of care.
What is an ethical dilemma?
Established rules of conduct to be used in situations where a decision about right and wrong must be made
What are morals
This is an intentional offensive touching without consent or lawful jurisdiction.
What is battery?
These are considered to be preventable errors, which may include falls, catheter associated UTIs, and healthcare associated pressure injuries.
What are never events?
What is justice?
This entity creates the code of ethics for nurses.
What is the American Nurses Association (ANA)?
What are tendencies to act, feel, and judge that develop through appropriate training but come from natural tendencies
What are Virtues
This is an intentional tort that may occur when the nurse restrains a client either chemically or physically without following hospital policy or procedure.
What is false imprisonment?
What is a good Samaritan law?
This refers to keeping promises and based on the virtue of caring.
What is fidelity?
What legal issue is taking place: The nurse stops providing care to a patient who may be responsible for a mass shooting.
What is Negligence
Always acting in line with personal and professional values
What is Integrity
This is the failure to use the same care that a reasonably prudent nurse would use under the same or similar circumstances.
This is a clients agreement to allow a procedure to take place with a full disclosure of the risks, benefits, alternatives, and consequences of a refusal.
What is informed consent?
This refers to taking positive actions to help other. Encourages you to do go for the client.
What is beneficence?
This takes place when the nurse gives an injection despite the clients refusal.
What is battery
A preconceived notion or prejudice
What is Bias
The failure to provide care a reasonable nurse would ordinarily provide in a similar situation
What is Negligence
This is a document that provides instructions about a clients wishes in certain situations, such as withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining procedures in those who are terminally ill.
What is a living will?
This refers to the fundamental agreement to do no harm.
This takes place when the nurse tells the client that the doctor is incompetent.
What is defamation