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ANA Ethical Principles
Legal Terms
Malpractice
Culture (true or false)
Heath and Illness
100
A patient's right to make decisions regarding their treatment-to self determine a course of action.
What is Autonomy
100
The most important law affecting your nursing practice. This protects the public by broadly defining the legal scope of nursing practice in each state.
What is your state's Nurse Practice Act?
100
Performing an act that a reasonable prudent person under similar circumstances WOULD NOT do, or failing to perform an act that a prudent person WOULD do under similar circumstances.
What is negligence? or Malpractice by professional personnel
100
True or False- Many cultures have different expressions and behaviors when dealing with pain.
What is true?
100
A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
What is a classic definition of health?
200
The avoidance of harm or hurt- For example- ensuring that a patient is pain free after surgery.
What is nonmaleficence?
200
May be intentional (having the knowledge of the permitted legal limits) or unintentional (negligent) acts of wrongdoing
What is a Tort?
200
Involves the four elements that must be established to prove that malpractice or negligence has occurred.
What is Liability?
200
Hypertension is not a common health problem in the African American, Asian and White population.
What is false?
200
The name for the following interdependent parts which compose the whole person and are responsible for influencing a person's behaviors in both health and illness.: intellectual, environmental, spiritual, sociocultural, emotional, and physical.
What are the human dimensions?
300
Equal and fair treatment of all resources to all citizens, regardless of what they have contributed or who they are.
What is justice?
300
1) A threat or attempt to make bodily contact with another without their consent. 2)A carried out willful, angry, violent or negligent touching of another's body or anything attached to the body.
What is 1) assault and 2) battery?
300
Element of Liability referring to an obligation to use due care.
What is duty?
300
Eye contact is one of the most culturally variable forms of non-verbal communication.
What is true? -Americans- eye contact is respectful -Asian, Native American, Arabs, Indochinese- Avert their eyes when speaking -Hispanic- look downward in deference -Hasidic Jewish men- avert eye contact with women
300
Which model of health promotion and illness prevention considers how one perceives the seriousness of a disease, one's susceptibility to the disease, and the perceived benefits of action to a disease when teaching about health and illness?
What is The Health Belief Model?
400
This entails keeping a commitment, keeping our promises and being truthful and loyal to our patients.
What is fidelity?
400
1) The written defamation of another's character 2) The spoken defamation of another's character
What is 1) libel and 2) slander?
400
Element of liability referring to the failure to meet the standard of care.
What is breach of duty?
400
Providing care that is planned and implemented in a way that is sensitive to the needs of individuals, families, and groups from diverse populations is cultural competent care.
What is true?
400
This term refers to an illness that usually has a short term course with a rapid onset of symptoms
What is an acute illness?
500
The desire to do good, be compassionate and taking positive action to help others. For example: A nurse calls the HCP for a stronger pain medication when the ordered medication is not helping the patient's pain.
What is beneficence?
500
Willful and purposeful misrepresentation that could cause or has caused harm to a person or property
What is fraud?
500
1) Most difficult element of liability to prove- showing that the breach of duty actually caused the injury 20 Necessary to prove malpractice- the actual harm or injury resulting to the patient.
What is 1) causation 2) damages
500
The nurse does not need to examine his or her own cultural beliefs, values, practices and experiences in order to be culturally competent.
What is false!!!
500
This broad term refers to an alteration in health that has the one of the following characteristics: -Permanent damage -Long period of care or support -Is caused by irreversible alterations in normal A & P -Requires special patient education for rehabilitation
What is a chronic illness?