Ethical Principles
A patient's right to choose for themselves
What is autonomy?
Sets standard to evaluate nurse's ethical behavior, not legally binding
What is nursing code of ethics?
True or False
If HIPAA standards of privacy are broken the responsible party can be fined, suspended or fired
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?
Air, hunger, shelter, rest, sleep and food
What are the physiological needs?
It is my duty not to harm my patient.
What is non- maleficence?
Mammograms and treatments are what level of prevention?
What are secondary levels of prevention?
"My pain is 10/10". This is an example of what type of data?
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?
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?
The nurse explains the risk of not taking prescribed medication but respects the patients' right to refuse one or all medications
What is Autonomy?
Assessment * Diagnosis * Outcomes Identification * Planning * Implementation * Evaluation
What are the 6 steps the Nursing Process?
Taking vital signs and listening to lung sounds are all examples of what type of data?
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 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 are the limitations of the LVN role?
Sedating a client to prevent them from falling out of bed
What is false imprisonment?
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?
______ 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?
In this step of nursing process the nurse reviews and see if her planning and interventions were successful.
What is evaluation?
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?
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?
When a competent clients leave a hospital prior to being ready for discharge, they leave _____________
What is against medical advice?
Most common incident reported in the hospital and long-term care setting
What are falls?
Duty to do or promote good.
What is beneficence?
A broad term; refers to all factors that effects communication
What is metacommunication?
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?
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?
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?
Intuition, creation, imagination, awareness, self-reflection! Sixth ladder to his hierarchy of Needs?
What is Self-Transcendence?