Ethics
Honesty when dealing with a client
What is Veracity?
I encourage group involvement and ownership.
What is Democratic Leadership?
The nurse only shares information about the client, either verbal or written, with those who are responsible for implementing the client’s treatment plan.
What is Confidentiality: Client’s right to privacy, protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule of 2003?
A client asks a nurse to be present when they talk to their guardian for the first time in a year. The nurse remains with the client during this interaction.
What is Fidelity?
Approves nursing programs, grants licenses, and establishes regulations for our nursing practice.
Who are the State Boards of Nursing?
The quality of doing good; can be described as charity.
What is Beneficence?
Manager seeks to make as many decisions as possible.
What is Authoritarian (Autocratic) Leadership?
Failing to provide adequate care in a personal or professional situation when one has an obligation to do so. Such as not checking on a client who was in restraints and the client losing circulation to a limb.
What is Negligence? (Unintentional Tort
A nurse helps a newly admitted client who has a psychotic disorder to feel safe in the environment of the mental health facility.
What is Beneficence?
Autonomy and Independence of Practice &
Professional Identity and Development
What are the criterias where nurses fall short of being a profession?
Loyalty and faithfulness to the client and to one’s duty
What is Fidelity?
Based on an inspiring vision that changes the framework of the organization for employees.
What is Transformational leadership?
A type of professional negligence, in which a professionals misconduct causes harm to a client. Such as if a nurse failed to notify the PCP of significant decelerations in a fetal heart rate and child was born with a brain injury.
What is Malpractice? (Unintentional Tort)
During a treatment team meeting, a nurse leads a discussion regarding whether or not two clients who broke the same facility rule were treated equally.
What is Justice?
The scope of nursing practice, those actions and duties that are allowable by the profession, is defined and guided by each state in one of these.
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
The client’s right to make their own decisions
What is Autonomy?
Shares information with their employees
What is democratic?
Involves both the existence of the duty and the nature of the duty.
Example: Failure to monitor a patient’s response to treatment
What is Duty owed the patient?
A client states, “You and that other staff member were talking about me, weren’t you?” The nurse truthfully replies, “We were discussing ways to help you relate to the other clients in a more positive way.”
What is Veracity?
The minimum requirements for acceptable practice or the minimum requirements for how one conducts oneself.
What is the standard of care?
Fair and equal treatment for all
What is Justice?
People who work under this style of leadership usually harbor hostile feelings that they are fearful to express, use passive-aggressive techniques to try to even the playing field, and feel oppressed and unable to use their full potential as a worker.
What is Authoritarian Style?
Falling below the standard of care.
Example: Failure to communicate change in patient status to the primary healthcare provider.
What is Breach of the duty owed?
Rather than giving advice to a client who has difficulty making decisions, a nurse helps the client explore all alternatives and arrive at a choice.
What is Autonomy?
The authorization by the patient or the patient’s legal representative to do something to the patient.
What is Informed Consent?