Ethics
An ethical theory stating that moral rule is binding.
What is deontology?
Being grounded in one's own culture, but having the skills to be able to work in a multicultural environment.
What is transcultural?
Serious adverse events during an inpatient stay that should never occur or are reasonably preventable through adherence to evidence-based guidelines.
What are never events?
Technologies that allow real-time data retrieval, documentation, and decision support at the bedside or wherever direct care is provided.
What is point-of-care (POC) technology?
You are an Asian student who is good friends with a Hispanic student. Your friend tells you that he grew up in a family cultural environment that displayed neutral attitudes about people from different cultures. They did not engage in violence with other cultures, yet they did not affirm the positive attributes of other cultures. Identify the attitude on the continuum of intensity of the range of attitudes toward culturally diverse groups.
What is tolerance?
An ethical duty to tell the truth.
What is veracity?
Believing that one's own ethnic group , culture, or nation is best.
What is ethnocentrism?
A national agency that conducts surveys of inpatient and ambulatory facilities and certifies their compliance with established quality standards.
What is The Joint Commission (TJC)?
EHR systems that have the ability to share and transfer patient data seamlessly across health care systems and settings.
What is EHR interoperability?
Your friend is concerned she may be pregnant. You go with her to the store and purchase a home pregnancy test which will yield an immediate result of positive or negative for pregnancy. This is classified as:
What is Point-of-Care (POC) testing?
What is utilitarianism?
Preconceived, deeply held, usually negative, judgement formed about certain groups.
What is prejudice?
Framework for taking action to systematically make changes that lead to measurable improvements in health care services for patients, staff, and organizations.
What is Quality Improvement (QI)?
The process of providers entering and sending treatment instructions-including medication, laboratory, and radiology orders-via a computer application rather than paper, fax, or telephone.
What is Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE)?
You are working with a patient who has two medications that look alike and sound alike: buspirone and buproprion. The labeling on the medication utilizes tall-man lettering to distinguish between the two medications: buPROPion busPIRone
What QSEN competency does this address?
What is Safety?
Personal freedom and the right of competent people to make choices; the right to self-determination
What is autonomy?
Assigning certain beliefs and behaviors to groups without recognizing individuality.
What is stereotyping?
Method of problem solving that identifies how and why an event occurred, determines causal factors, and develops improvements to eliminate further occurrences.
What is Root Cause Analysis (RCA)?
The use of telecommunications technology to assess, diagnose, and treat persons who are at a distance from the health care provider.
What is telehealth?
You are looking up literature on the topic of binge drinking among college students. You find an article in the CINAHL database. The author is identified as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner specializing in addiction therapy. His credentials are noted as such: Jeremy Schwimmer, DNP, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC. The article is from a reputable journal in addiction therapy: Journal of Behavioral Addictions. When utilizing the website evaluation form, which criterion does the above information most accurately represent? Choices are: Authority, Objectivity, Accuracy, Currency, Usability
What is Authority?
An ethical principle of compassion and patient advocacy, stating that one should do good and prevent or avoid doing harm.
What is beneficence?
Guidelines for health care organizations to ensure equal access to quality health care for diverse populations.
What is Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)?
The nonprofit organization that is an education resource for the prevention of medication errors, is a venue to voluntarily and confidentially report medication errors, and developed Medication Safety Self-Assessments to allow nurses and other health care professionals to assess the medication safety practices in their work setting.
What is the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)?
A complex set of capabilities and standards to be met by EHR users in a series of three stages over several years; CMS provides financial incentives to providers who adopt and use EHRs that meet these standards.
What is Meaningful Use (MU)?
Two army generals order a village in Africa to be bombed by air attack to prevent a deadly virus that has infected the residents from spreading. This act is based on which theoretical principle? Deontology or Utilitarianism?
What is Utilitarianism?