Ethics & Nursing in Canada
These organizations set standards for nursing education
What are the provincial regulators and associations?
Known as the founder of modern nursing
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This is a legal guideline for nursing practice
What is standard(s) of care or practice standards?
In Nursing Standards, this is defined as the ability to do something effectively.
What is competency?
This knowledge is based on research or clinical expertise
What is evidence informed knowledge
What is electroconvulsive therapy?
This woman who emigrated to Canada from France is widely recognized as Canada's first nurse.
Who is Jeanne Mance?
This important nursing activity has its roots in autonomy and can be withdrawn by the patient at any time
What is informed consent?
Touching someone without their consent can be legally described using this term.
What is battery? (P103 P&P)
This type of reasoning begins with specific details and uses them to arrive at more general conclusions
What is inductive reasoning?
The mandate of regulatory nursing organizations is to do this
What is protecting the public? (from unqualified practitioners)
An essential figure in the history of nursing, this theorist understood that the nurse/patient relationship is transformative.
Who is Hildegard Peplau?
The nursing aspect that allows a patient to trust and disclose personal information to a registered. psychiatric nurse
What is a fiduciary relationship?
Invading someone's privacy is an example of this civil wrong
What is a tort (p 103 P&P)?
This is done by nurses to purposefully remember a situation in order discover its purpose or meaning
What is reflection?
A branch of applied ethics that studies the philosophical, social, and legal issues arising in the practice of medicine and the life sciences
What is bioethics?
The first Canadian university undergraduate nursing programs initially focused on courses on this specific type of nursing
What is public health nursing (influenced by post WW II and influenza pandemic of 1918)
A psychiatric nurse should do this when they do not understand an order written by a psychiatrist
What is contact the psychiatrist and clarify the order?
Breaching confidentiality is justifiable when a psychiatric nurse encounters this
What is reporting child abuse (P103 P&P)
Consistency in your own thinking standards as well as those you ascribe to others is described as this
What is intellectual integrity?
This practice is infamously known to have taken place at Edmonton's Charles Camsell Hospital.
What is forced sterilization?
The first Provincial Hsopital for the Insane was opened in Ponoka in this year
What is 1911?
A Peace Officer in Alberta can issue a Form 10 authorizing transport to a designated facility for this purpose.
What is detain and examine?
The Health Professions Act is an example of this type of law.
What is Statutory? (passed in federal Parliament or provincial Legislature)
What is evaluation?