Ethical Principles
1. A patient's right to choose for themselves
2. No matter how devastating the prognosis is; no matter how difficult the recovery will be; the nurse must always tell the truth
1. What is autonomy?
2. What is veracity?
Sets standard to evaluate nurse's ethical behavior, not legally binding
What is nursing code of ethics?
1. This act established standards of privacy of personal health information
2. True or False
If these standards of privacy are broken the responsible party can be fined, suspended or fired
1. What is the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act?
2. True
Protects a nurse from liability when providing emergency care at the scene of an accident
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
Performing tasks and responsibilities under the direction of an RN?
What is the role of the LPN?
The nurse begins to prioritize in this important step of nursing process
What is nursing diagnosis?
Cigarette smoking
Weight gain
Sedentary lifestyle are examples of
What are modifiable risk factors?
The decision making framework for nurses
What is the nursing process?
Air, hunger, shelter, rest, sleep and food
What are the physiological needs?
Man's eternal quest to be free from harm, his intrinsic desire for security from harm, injury.
What is Safety?
1. Obligation to be fair, equal treatment of all patients
2. It is my duty not to harm my patient
1. What is justice?
2. What is non- maleficence?
Mammograms and treatments are ____________?
What are secondary levels of prevention?
"My pain is 10/10"
"I live alone" are examples of _____?
What is subjective data?
Protects the health, safety, and welfare of the general public
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
Healthcare workers who are not licensed but provide non-nursing custodial, health-related activities and/or clerical client care services under the supervision of a registered nurse.
Who are UAP?
In this step the nurse collects data
What is Assessment?
The failure to use ordinary or reasonable care or to act in a careful manner
What is negligence?
Right task, right person, right circumstance, right directions and right supervision
What are five rights of delegation ?
Man's eternal quest to be free from harm, his intrinsic desire for security from harm, injury.
What is Safety ?
These needs are met through satisfactory relationships— relationships with family members, friends, peers, classmates, teachers, and other people with whom individuals interact.
What is Love & Belonging?
1. Duty to tell the truth
2. The nurse explains the risk of not taking prescribed medication but respects the patients' right to refuse one or all medications
1. What is veracity?
2. What is Autonomy?
Assessment * Diagnosis * Outcomes Identification * Planning * Implementation * Evaluation
What are the 6 standards of the ANA Standards of Practice on the Nursing Process?
Interview, checking past medical history and listening to lung sounds are all examples of ___________?
What is objective data?
What laws take priority over the patients right to privacy?
What is Mandatory Reporting Laws?
Cannot do initial assessments of client condition and complaints Cannot triage Cannot create, initiate or alter nursing goals or establish nursing care plans Cannot do initial client education regarding client condition, surgeries or complaints Cannot administer IV chemotherapy Cannot administer any direct IV fluid bolus or push medications except for saline and heparin flushes
What is scope of practice for LPN?
Sedating a client to prevent them from falling out of bed
What is false imprisonment?
Any endeavor directed at enhancing the quality of health and well-being of individuals, families, communities, and groups”.
What is Health Promotion?
A strong link exists between the professional work environment and the registered nurse’s ability to provide quality health care and achieve optimal outcomes.
What is the 5th Tenet of Nursing?
A person's motivation to reach his/her full potential. 5th ladder in Maslow's hierarchy.
What is self actualization ?
A person's motivation to reach his/her full potential. 5th ladder in Maslow's hierarchy.
What is self actualization?
Duty to keep promises
What is fidelity?
Acute and Critical Care Nursing•Cardiovascular Nursing•Emergency Nursing•Gerontological Nursing•Pain Management Nursing•Vascular Nursing•Wound, Ostomy & Continence Nursing
What are the names of some of the specialties identified by the ANA and certifications through the ANCC?
In this step of nursing process the nurse reviews and see if her planning and interventions were successful.
What is evaluation?
The nurse puts nasal cannula on patient and reposition him.
What is implementation?
Enacted by the legislature of each state to: Protect clients’ safety & Guide the scope of practice for all levels of nurses
What is Nurse Practice Act (NPA)?
When a competent clients leave a hospital prior to being ready for discharge, they leave _____________
What is against medical advice?
A process of appraising ones personal and professional values.
What are values clarification?
Name two types of advanced practice nurses
NP's and CNS, Nurse midwife, nurse anesthetist
Most common incident reported in the hospital and long-term care setting
What are falls?
Document prepared by a competent person that provides directions to others about the person's wishes regarding life prolonging treatments if the person is unable to make decision
What is a living will?
1. Duty to do or promote good
2. Nurse promised to bring a cup of tea but did not? She broke which specific code of ethics?
What is beneficence?
What is Fidelity?
A broad term; refers to all factors that effects communication
What is metacommunication?
The RN analyzes the assessment data she gathered to determine __________?
What is (Nursing) diagnosis ?
Addresses professional issues that impact nurses, such as workplace violence, mandatory overtime, and unsafe staffing.
What is the American Nurse's Association Nurses' Bill of Rights?
This sounds like a foreign language to patients, the nurse must avoid this and use language that patients and families understand
What is medical jargoon?
A person is strongly influenced by their ethnic, religious, community and social relations.
What are cultural values?
1. A nurse accepts responsibility for giving the wrong medication.
2. The "right" person
The "right" task
The "right" circumstances
The "right" directions and communication and
The "right" supervision and evaluation
1. What is accountability?
2. What are 5 rights of delegation?
Prevention that aims to prevent disease or injury
What is Primary prevention?
You have 3 patients:
One has massive bleeding
The other 10/10 pain
One has shallow breathing
Which patient you will see first
What is taking care of a patient with shallow breathing?
A client's surrogate decision maker to make healthcare decisions if the client is unable to do so
Who is the durable power of attorney for healthcare?
1. Duty to do no harm and prevent harm
2. I must remove all disparities and treat all patients equally
1. What is non maleficence?
2. What is Justice?
______ is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations
What is nursing?
Impaired breathing patterns r/t chronic disease process as evidenced by increased respirations and shortness of breath
this is an example of _________
What is nursing diagnosis?
Registered nurses use the nursing process to plan and provide individualized care for healthcare consumers
What is the 3rd Tenet of Nursing?
Three of the rights lost by a person convicted of a felony
What is right to vote, hold public office, serve on a jury, possess firearms, possibly any professional license?
What type of tort is the nurse guilty of if they search a client's belongings without permission?
What is invasion of privacy?
A systematic process to produce unbiased answers about best nursing practices
What is nursing research?
1. Providing health education
2. PT, OT, Hospice, home health and Rehab are ___
1. What is Primary, secondary, & tertiary prevention?
What is tertiary prevention?
Intuition, creation, imagination, awareness, self-reflection! Sixth ladder to his hierarchy of Needs?
What is Self-Transcendence?
Requirements for informed consent to be valid
What are completeness, clarity and comprehension, voluntariness, and competence?