Introduction to Practice
Each State has one of these that protects the public by legally defining and describing the scope of nursing practice.
What is The Nurse Practice Act?
This refers to telling the truth
What is veracity?
This communication technique can convey caring and support when words are difficult.
What is Theraputic Touch?
This is communication tool is also referred to as the chart where patient information is kept.
What is the medical record?
Assigning certain beliefs and behaviors about a culture to an individual or a group.
What is stereotyping?
This person is often referred to as the "Lady with the Lamp".
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This law as passed in 1996 to help regulate patient privacy of protected health information and medical records.
What is The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPPA?
A nurse will use this to gather information focusing on the patient and their needs to facilitate interaction.
What is therapeutic communication?
Being specific and definite when charting in the patient record.
What is accuracy?
The belief in one's own culture and lifestyle being superior to others.
What is ethnocentrism?
Standards of care for the LPN are established by this organization, while a Code of Ethics for nursing is established by this organization.
What is The National Federation of Licensed Practical Nursing and the American Nursing Association?
When there has been a violation of the confidential and privileged nature of a nurse-patient professional relationship?
What is invasion of privacy?
This form of communication uses gestures, facial expressions and touch. usually has more meaning than the spoken word.
What is Nonverbal Communication?
This is saying precisely what is meant, while this is using the fewest words possible.
What is clarity and brevity?
Since all cultures provide every human within it to grow, remain well, avoiding illness and survive, this type of nursing in necessary to care for these other cultures.
What is Transcultural Nursing Care?
Using the best scientific evidence to guide one's practice that improve patient outcomes is this?
What is using Evidenced Based Practice?
An unexpected occurrence that involves a death or serious injury or risk there of.
What is a sentinal event?
The ability to place oneself in another's position, perceiving the situation from another person's perspective is this.
What is empathy?
Being able to read a nurse's notes in the patient chart.
What is legibility?
The ability to communicate with someone from another culture in a manner that shows respect for their cultural norms and beliefs
What is cultural sensitivity?
This group of people are responsible for there own actions and are legally held to the same standard as a professional nurse.
What is the student nurse?
These are written to direct the LPN to deliver safe, knowledgeable care.
What is the Standards of Nursing Practice?
Entering a room and seeing a patient crying and stating she feels awful is this.
What is communication congruency?
Examples are keeping passwords secure and logging off terminals when walking away.
What is confidentiality?
This is group of people that share common/distinct culture based on shared ancestry, social experience, religion or national history. This is a social classification that assigns group membership based on physical characteristics.
What is ethnicity and race?