Ethical Responsibilities
A guide for the expectations and standards of a profession.
What is a Code of Ethics?
Occurs when a nurse fails to implement safety measures for a patient at risk for falls
What is Negligence?
Information obtained from a patient's perspective
What is Subjective Data?
influences how much and how quickly someone learns; influences the desire and ability to learn/understand the content
what is motivation?
HIPAA
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
An ethical principle; action that promotes good for others, without any self interest
What is Beneficence?
A nurse can be charged with this if they put all four side rails up ona patient's bed without a provider's order.
What is False Imprisionment?
Charting only abnormalities in an assessment
What is Charting by Exception?
type of learning that involves feelings, beliefs, and values; involves verbal and nonverbal communication, valuing the content or believing it is worth learning
What is Affective Learning?
PHI
What is Protected Health Information?
What is Nonmaleficence?
Regulatory body that creates the tules and regulations for a state's nursing practice laws
What is a Board of Nursing?
Documenting the occurance of an accident or unusual event (errors, falls, omission, needlestick pokes)
What is an Incident (Variance) Report?
type of learning that involves gaining skills that require mental and physical activity; relies on perception, set, guided response, mechanism, adaptation, and origination
What is Psychomotor Learning?
EHR
What is an Electronic Health Record?
What is Veracity?
The nurse is responsible to witness the patient's signature on this AND ensure the provider has obtained it responsibly.
What is Informed Consent?
Part of HIPAA which requires nurses protect all written and verbal communication about patients' private health information
What is The Privacy Rule?
When teaching this population, outside factors like finances or employment may influence a patient's readiness to learn
What are Adults?
SOAP
Problems that involve more than one choice and stem from differences in the values and beliefs of the decision
What is an Ethical Dilemma?
Used to communicate a patient's wishes regarding end-of-life care should the patient be unable to do so.
What is an Advance Directive?
Some hospitals use this as a "password" system which allows the nurse to share health information with family members of a patient over the phone
What is the Code System?
type of learning that requires intellectual behaviors and focuses on thinking; involves remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, creating, evaluating
What is Cognitive Learning?
DAR
What is Dara, Action, Response?