Ethics
A child's immunization may cause discomfort during administration, but the benefits of protection from disease, both for the individual and society, outweigh the temporary discomforts. Which principle is involved in this situation
What is Beneficence?
In this step of the nursing process, you prioritize the diagnosis in order of importance and figure out what nursing interventions need tot take place to accomplish these as well as goals to achieve your care plan
What is Planning?
The nurse is participating at a health fair at the local mall giving influenza vaccinations to senior citizens. What level of prevention is the nurse practicing?
What is Primary Prevention?
Upon assessment, you palpate crepitations in the patients left knee joint. This would be classified as what type of data?
What is Objective Data?
This is a set of learned values, beliefs, customs, and practices shared by a group
What is culture?
The parents of a child with no apparent brain function refuse to permit withdrawal of life support. Which moral principle is applied with the nurse's action to support the family's decision?
What is autonomy?
This step of the nursing process includes the systematic collection of all subjective and objective data about the client in which the nurse focuses holistically on the client- physical, psychological, emotional, sociocultural, and spiritual.
What is Assessment?
A patient is admitted to the ICU to be closely monitored for an overdose. The patient is experienced what level of care?
What is tertiary level of care?
What is Objective?
The ambulatory care nurse is discussing preoperative procedures with a Japanese American client who is scheduled for surgery the following week. During the discussion, the client continually smiles and nods the head. As the nurse caring for this client, the nurse should know that smiling and head nodding is considered what?
What are non-verbal cues?
The point of the ethical practice is an agreement to reassure the public that in all ways the health care team not only works to heal patients but agrees to do this in the least painful and harmful way possible. This principle is commonly called the principle of
What is Nonmaleficence?
In this stage, you determine if the patient has achieved the expected outcomes.
What is Evaluation?
A patient experienced a myocardial infarction four weeks ago and is currently participating in the daily cardiac rehabilitation sessions at the local fitness center. In what level of prevention is the patient participating?
What is Tertiary Prevention?
A patient expresses to you that they have been experiencing left knee pain and it has been hot and tender for the past 3 days. This would be classified as what type of data?
What is Subjective Data?
This is considered to be a fixed concept of how all members of an ethnic group act or think.
What is a ethnic stereotype?
When designing a plan for pain management for a postoperative patient, the nurse assesses that the patient's priority is to be as free of pain as possible. The nurse and patient work together to identify a plan to manage the pain. The nurse continually reviews the plan with the patient to ensure that the patient's priority is met. Which principle is used to encourage the nurse to monitor the patient's response to the pain?
What is Fidelity?
The nurse informs the physical therapy department that the client is too weak to use a walker and needs to be transported by wheelchair. Which step of the nursing process is the nurse engaged in at this time?
What is Implementation?
Patient is being seen in the outpatient clinic by their provider to discuss issues pertaining to exacerbations of their asthma. What level of care is the patient experiencing?
What is primary level of care?
Sally, the student nurse, assessed her patient's level of pain on a scale from 0 to 10, 0 being no pain at all and 10 being the most pain the patient experienced. The patient stated that they are experiencing a pain level of 4. What kind of data is this considered?
What is subjective?
The nurse educator is providing an in-service on culture to the staff and mentions that this process is "learning a different culture to adapt a new or changing environment." As the student, we know that this is an example of?
What is Acculturation?
The nurse hung a unit of blood on the wrong client, resulting in an anaphylactic reaction in the client. During the resuscitation, the nurse does not reveal that the wrong blood was given. Which moral principle was absent in the nurse's actions?
The nurse in charge identifies a patient's responses to actual or potential health problems during which step of the nursing process?
What is Diagnosis?
The nurse is conducting a home visit with an older adult couple. She assesses that the lighting in the home is poor and that there are several throw rugs throughout the home and a low footstool in the living room. She suggests that the rugs and the footstool be removed and improving the lighting in the home. The nurse is addressing which need according to Maslow?
What is Safety & Security?
A patient presents to the nurse in the clinic rubbing their forehead and diaphoretic. This would be an example of what type of data?
What is objective data?
This best practice the nurse should implement when communicating with a client who speaks a different language.
What is provide an interpreter?