PHI
PHI stands for
What is Protected Health Information?
The duty to provide competent patients with the opportunity to make an informed decision about their medical treatment.
What is Autonomy?
A term in medical ethics that derives from the ancient maxim primum non nocere, which means first, do no harm.
What is nonmaleficence?
Sedating a patient to keep them from leaving is an example of this tort...
What is false imprisonment?
These precautions are essential for diseases like tuberculosis, measles, and chickenpox, which can be transmitted via the air.
What are Airborne Precautions?
Demographics, health Hx., Diagnoses, and social security numbers are all part of a patient's ____.
What is Protected Heath Information (PHI)?
When educating patients, it is important to include the patient's spouse, immediate family member, or caregiver to increase this _______.
What is compliance in care?
Acting in a way that promotes the well-being of others and benefits them.
What is beneficence?
This tort is the act of failing to take proper care, resulting in harm to a patient.
What is negligence?
Patients suspected or confirmed to have infections that spread through direct or indirect contact such as c-diff, MRSA, and VRE should be placed in this type of precautions.
What are Contact Precautions?
HIPPA stands for ______.
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
The learning theory focuses on the development of physical skills and coordinated movement, ranging from basic reflexes to complex, skilled actions.
What is Psychomotor?
Treating all patients fairly and equitably, regardless of their individual characteristics.
What is justice?
Doing this in real-time, with accuracy, is important for the patient's management of care and to utilize as defense if a legal suit is filed by the patient.
What is documentation?
Patients with infections transmitted via respiratory droplets, typically those traveling up to 3 feet from an infected person when they cough, sneeze, or talk should be placed in this type of precautions.
What are Droplet Precautions?
This gives patient's the right to request copies of their medical records and to have mistakes in their medical record corrected.
What is HIPPA?
This should be based on the learner (patient), the specific topic, the current state of the patient, and the learning environment.
What is Appropriateness of teaching techniques?
The process by which nurses make decisions about patient care, combining knowledge, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning to understand and interpret information
What is clinical judgement?
The legal framework for nursing practice, including scope of practice, licensure requirements, and disciplinary actions is governed by this body.
What is the state board of nursing?
This infectious disease requires bleach for environmental cleaning, and handwashing instead of sanitizer after patient contact.
What is C-diff?
Leaving a computer unattended with a patient's PHI on the screen, looking up a friend's admitting medical diagnosis, and discussing PHI in a cafeteria or elevator are examples of this tort.
What is a Breach of Confidentiality?
Self-reflection, good coping skills, knowing your limitations, and asking for help when needed, can help nurses avoid...
What is Burnout?
Not notifying a provider about a patient's change in status or decline in status can result in legal ramifications under this tort.
What is negligence?
The state law that regulates the practice of nursing, including registered nurses (RNs) and licensed practical nurses (LPNs).
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
This can increase the risk for a patient to get an infection, DVT, atrophy, contracture, diminished bone mass, urinary retention, and skin integrity issues.
What is Immobility?