Professional Practice
Created to inspire nurses to improve their health and be role models for others
What is Healthy Nurse Healthy Nation?
Circumstances that can result in health inequities.
What are the social determinants of care?
An unexpected death, major physical or psychological injury, or situation where there was a risk of either of these.
What is a sentinel event?
Nurse administrators are expected to participate in this to determine how to allocate resources.
What is the budget process?
How can nurses avoid being liable for negligence?
This allows a nurse to provide a standard of care that is reasonable and prudent in an emergency situation.
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
These nurses practice a level of humility demonstrated by incorporating self-evaluation of personal bias, addressing inequities in healthcare, and developing partnerships that work with communities in a mutually beneficial way to support defined populations.
Who are nurses practicing culturally congruent care?
The nurse should look here to find out information on hazardous materials in the workplace.
What is the Safety Data Sheet (SDS)?
Determining what should be included in the budget can be compared to this component of the nursing process.
What is Assess?
the nurse has a duty to report a coworker to management immediately, following facility policies.
What should the nurse do if they suspect a coworker of using alcohol or other substances while working?
Each state has one to guide nursing practice.
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
Supporting clinical interventions and teaching strategies with evidence is an example of this.
What is evidence-based practice?
Airborne, contact, droplet, standard
What are the four level of precautions?
Cost or the staff needed for the patient census
What is a personnel budget?
Federal law requires health care facilities to provide access to qualified specialists who make request to clients and/or family members for this.
What is organ donation?
The failure of a person with professional training to act in a reasonable and prudent manner.
What is malpractice or professional negligence?
A format commonly used to develop a research project.
What is PICOT?
This should be completed when something unexpected occurs, but should not be included in the client's chart.
What is an incident report?
Identifying what needs to be done in creating a budget that will effectively use resources can be compared to this component of the nursing process.
Diagnose
Advocating for professional nursing, participating in the political process to influence policy, nurses need to be politically active, nurses have power to impact change by participating in drafting legislation.
What is nursing professional advocacy and health policy influence?
Required to practice as an RN.
What is a RN nursing license?
Used to protect the rights of participants in a research study.
What is the institutional review board (IRB)?
Factors or qualities in an object's design and/or use that contribute to comfort, safety, efficiency, and ease of use. Proper body mechanics are also an example.
What are ergonomic principles?
Cost of running the unit and/or hospital
What is the operating budget?
A serious criminal law such as homicide.
What is a felony?
Safety, quality, & risk management, health advocacy, clinical care delivery, healthy work environment, accountability for resource management, legal & regulatory compliance, networking.
What is the ANA Nursing Administration Scope and Standards of Practice (2016), 7 areas of core accountabilities?
A core concept of nursing.
What is caring?
Each health care facility must have one, it should interface with local, state, and federal resources and the Joint Commission mandates it be tested at least twice a year.
What is an Emergency Operating Plan?
Analyzing staff mix, recruiting & interviewing, orientation & mentoring, socializing, and scheduling
What is the nurse manager's role in human resources?
Civil law that protects the rights of people.
What are torts?
This term is used to recognize the facilities power to draw nurses to the facility and to retain them.
What is magnet status?
Client outcomes are improved, cost of care is lower, delivery of high-quality care.
What are positive consequences of using evidence-based practice?
Rescue, Activate, Confine, Extinguish
What is the fire response sequence?
Large equipment cost usually over $5000.
What is the capital budget?
A less serious criminal law such as petty theft?
What is a misdeamnor.
State Law
What regulates the core of nursing practice?
Compassion, Competence, Conscience, Confidence, Commitment, Comportment, Creativity
What are the 7 attributes of caring?
Service occurrences, near misses, serious incidents, sentinel events, failure to rescue
What are events that are reported and tracked under risk management?
Reviewing the budget and modifying as needed throughout the fiscal year can be compared to this component of the nursing process.
What is evaluate?
Unintentional, quasi-intentional, intentional
What are classifications of torts?