Culture
While caring for an African American patient the AUA asked if the patient liked HIP HOP. What is the AUA demonstrating?
Stereotyping
An AUA fails to reposition a patient as ordered, resulting in harm to the patient?
malpractice
What does DNR stand for?
Do not resuscitate
Name a breach of standard of care?
Failure to properly monitor
A group of people who share some customs and traditions with a larger group, but also have shared patterns of behavior different than the larger group are known as what?
Sub Culture
Define Autonomy
Respect for one's own right to make their own decision
Name a Breach of Standards of care
Failure to document in a timely and proper fashion
The AUA is working with a Spanish-speaking patient and needs to give specific instructions. Who should the AUA use to translate this information?
A professional interpretor
A nurse is told to perform a task that they thinks is outside of their scope of practice. To what law should they refer before initiating the task?
Nurse Practice Act
Define Fidelity
Loyalty
What act varies by state and nurses responsibility to know them.
Nurse Practice Act
What is a great way to help someone with low literacy?
Printed Information or visuals
What is the best way for an AUA to avoid a lawsuit?
Provide compassionate care
Standards of Care
acts whose performance is required,
permitted, or prohibited
What are the universal guidelines that define appropriate measures for all nursing interventions?
Standards of Care
We must see the patient as a person and not a room number?
True
The AUA is caring for a patient with a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order. Even if the AUA disagrees with the order, what is their legal obligation?
Follow the order
What is the title of the American Hospital Association's 1972 document that outlines the patient's expectations to be treated with dignity and compassion?
Patient Bill of Rights
Common breach of standard of care
Failure to protect and falls