Evidence-based Practice
Assessing scene safety, checking responsiveness, calling for help, checking pulse and breathing, and beginning chest compressions are the proper order in evidence-based practice for this.
What is CPR?
Under the Good Samaritan Law, once you begin to provide medical care at a scene you cannot leave that patient until this happens.
What is another competent care person arrives to take over care?
This principle of Ethics is when a patient makes a decision to end a treatment or method of care delivery.
What is Autonomy?
A nurse would put in a referral to this care provider for a patient experiencing dysphagia (difficulty or inability to swallow)
What is a speech therapist?
Who is their immediate supervisor?
Using hot water, holding the hands above the elbows, and rubbing hands and arms to dry are NOT EBP for this.
What is proper handwashing?
Communicating evidence based findings to co-workers is and example of this step of EBP.
What is sharing results?
This ethical principle is tied to the concept of doing no harm to the patient.
What is Nonmaleficence?
This is the principle of being responsible for one's own actions.
What is accountability?
Sunlight aids in the creation of this vitamin in the body.
What is Vitamin D?
Having a patient clear their airway before administering a medication by that route is an example of this.
What is evidence-based practice?
The method of making healthcare decisions using best current evidence, clinical expertise, and patient preferences and values.
What is evidence-based practice?
This ethical principle means doing what is good for the patient.
What is Beneficence?
Documenting care in a patient's record that was not performed constitutes this.
What is falsification?
This is the primary action the nurse takes in patient care.
What is assessment?
Giving away possessions, talking about death, and feelings of worthlessness are all possible signs of this.
What is suicidal ideation?
The proper step in taking a temperature after a patient states they just took a drink of a hot or cold beverage.
What is wait 30 minutes?
This ethical principle involves the nurse being truthful.
What is Veracity?
Assessing the current health status of the patient, reviewing preoperative test results, and ensuring that a signed surgical consent is signed, are all responsibilities of a nurse in providing this.
What is informed consent?
This document by the American Nurses Association describes the ethical responsibilities and professional values of nurses.
What is the Nursing Code of Ethics?
Part of evidence-based practice involves taking into account a patient's wishes. This means that we consider this about the patient.
What are the patient's preferences and values?
The proper first step after assessing that a patient choking.
What is the abdominal thrust maneuver?
This ethical principle means treating all patients fairly.
What is Justice?
What is advocacy?
The approach used in decision making when a nurse's personal beliefs conflict with the patient's autonomy.
What is using a structured process of reasoning to analyze and reach a decision?