The Health Care Delivery System
This level of prevention focuses on preventing disease before it occurs through health promotion and education.
What is primary prevention?
Diabetes mellitus and hypertension are examples of this type of illness.
What is a chronic illness?
Before a client signs a surgical consent form, the provider must explain the procedure, risks, benefits, and alternatives. This process is known as ________.
What is informed consent?
This ethical principle means promoting good and acting in the best interest of the client.
What is beneficence?
This digital system stores a client's health information, including assessments, medications, laboratory results, and provider notes.
What is an Electronic Health Record (EHR)?
Mammograms, blood pressure screenings, and colonoscopies are examples of this level of prevention.
What is secondary prevention?
Smoking, poor diet, and physical inactivity are examples of these types of risk factors that can be changed.
What are modifiable risk factors?
A nurse forgets to raise the side rails on a confused client, and the client falls and is injured. This unintentional tort has occurred.
What is negligence?
A nurse honestly explains a medication error to a client and reports it according to policy. This ethical principle is being demonstrated.
What is veracity?
When documenting on paper, how should the nurse correct an error?
What is, the nurse should draw a single line through the error, write "error," initial it.
Cardiac rehabilitation after a myocardial infarction is an example of this level of prevention.
What is tertiary prevention?
According to Maslow's Hierarchy, the nurse should address airway, breathing, and circulation before focusing on this higher-level need involving personal worth, value, and confidence.
What is esteem?
This law protects health care providers who voluntarily provide emergency care at the scene of an accident from liability when acting in good faith.
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
A nurse follows through on a promise to return with a client's pain medication after completing another task. This ethical principle is demonstrated.
What is fidelity?
A medication administered at 2:45 PM would be documented using this military time.
What is 1445?
This health care professional administers breathing treatments, manages oxygen therapy, and assists with ventilator care.
Who is the respiratory therapist?
This type of illness develops suddenly and usually lasts a short period of time
What is an acute illness?
A nurse discusses a client's diagnosis in a crowded elevator where visitors can hear. This federal law protecting client privacy has been violated.
What is HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
This ethical principle means "do no harm" and requires nurses to avoid actions that could injure a client.
What is nonmaleficence?
Documentation should be factual, accurate, complete, timely, and based on this type of information rather than opinions.
What is objective data?
This health care professional helps clients regain the ability to perform activities of daily living such as dressing, bathing, and eating after illness or injury.
Who is the occupational therapist?
Age, family history, and genetic predisposition are examples of these types of risk factors that cannot be changed.
What are nonmodifiable risk factors?
When wasting a controlled substance, nursing policy typically requires this person to witness and verify the disposal.
Who is another licensed nurse (or authorized witness)?
A nurse ensures that all clients receive equal access to care and resources regardless of their background. This ethical principle is being upheld.
What is justice?
This nursing specialty combines nursing science, computer science, and information science to improve patient care and communication.
What is nursing informatics?