Basics
Governing Bodies/Laws
Ethics
Legal
Miscellaneous
100

a tool for identifying patients’ problems or potential problems and an organized method for meeting patients’ needs

What is The Nursing Process?

100

PROTECT HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS FROM LIABILITY IF THEY STOP TO PROVIDE AID IN AN EMERGENCY.

What is the Good Samaritan Law?

100

E RULES OF CONDUCT THAT HAVE BEEN AGREED TO BY A PARTICULAR GROUP. THEY ARE BASED ON THE CONSENSUS (AGREEMENT) OF THE GROUP THAT THESE RULES ARE MORALLY RIGHT OR PROPER.

What are ethics?

100

WRITTEN STATEMENT EXPRESSING THE PATIENT’S WISHES REGARDING FUTURE CONSENT FOR OR REFUSAL OF TREATMENT IF THE PATIENT IS INCAPABLE OF PARTICIPATING IN DECISION MAKING.

What is an advance directive?

100

Measurable and observable data

What is objective data?

200

This step involves generating solutions for each problem statement/nursing diagnosis. 

What is Planning?

200

DEVELOPED NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY GOALS TO PROMOTE SPECIFIC IMPROVEMENTS IN PATIENT SAFETY.

WHO IS THE JOINT COMMISSION?

200

To do the most good

what is beneficence?

200

DEALS WITH POTENTIAL WRONGDOING OF A PERSON AGAINST ANOTHER PERSON.

What is a Civil Law (Tort)?

200

concerned with one very specific problem, may be performed before a total assessment and data collection and analysis are completed

What if a focused assessment?

300

critical thinking inside the clinical setting

What is clinical reasoning?

300

PROTECT THE WAY THAT PATIENT INFORMATION IS CONVEYED AND STORED AND TO WHOM INFORMATION MAY BE REVEALED.

What is Health Information Protection and Portability Act (HIPPA)?

300

respecting or advocating for someone's self determination

what is autonomy?

300

LEGAL ASSIGNMENT OF THE ABILITY TO MAKE HEALTH CARE DECISIONS FOR ANOTHER PERSON

What is a medical/durable power of attorney?

300

A record procedures done, organs removed, type of incision, drains or equipment in place, blood loss, problems during surgery

What is a Surgical/Operative Report?

400

effective reading, effective writing, attentive listening, and effective communication.

What are foundation skills for critical thinking?

400

DUTY, A BREACH OF DUTY, CAUSATION, AND INJURY

What are the 4 elements required for Malpractice?

400

THE ACT OF ENDING ANOTHER PERSON’S LIFE, WITH OR WITHOUT THE PERSON’S CONSENT, TO END ACTUAL OR POTENTIAL SUFFERING.

What is Euthanasia?

400

THE HIGHEST COURT TO WHICH AN APPEAL OF A COURT DECISION CAN BE BROUGHT

What is the United States Supreme Court?
400

inspection, auscultation, palpation, percussion

what is the order of an abdominal assessment?

500

the order of importance: usually based on the adaptation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

What is Prioritization?

500

PASSED IN 1970 TO IMPROVE THE WORK ENVIRONMENT: EACH FACILITY IS REQUIRED TO KEEP A RECORD OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES AND MAINTAIN SAFETY DATA SHEETS

What is the OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION?

500

a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two courses of action, either of which entails transgressing a moral principle.

What is an ethical dilemma?

500

A JUDICIAL DECISION THAT IS USED AS A GUIDE IN INTERPRETING THE LAW AND DECIDING CASES AFTERWARD

What is a precident?

500

required on days 14, 30, 60, and 90 for Medicare patients

What is a reassessment by an RN?