Professional Practice
True or False: The RN is accountable for acting in the patient's behalf even if it conflict's with the provider's orders.
What is true?
This act from 1990 protects people with physical and/or mental limitations in the workplace.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
These are the two main goals of all we do in nursing, including the quality improvement process.
What are improve safety and quality of care?
This refers to the legal process in which the nurse makes sure the client has a clear understanding of the procedure about to be performed.
What is Informed Consent?
These populations are especially in need of advocacy since they are at risk of not being heard.
What are vulnerable populations?
This organization wrote and maintains the Patient Care Partnership, formerly known as the Patient's Bill of Rights
What is the American Hospital Association?
This is the term used to describe the collaborative team comprised of workers from various backgrounds.
What is interdisciplinary or interprofessional team?
This is the legal document that includes a living will and durable power of attorney.
What is an Advance Directive?
Ability reflect upon the meaning of events, examines available data, and uses reason to anticipate when complications are likely to occur and rapidly recognize cues that indicate that problems are beginning
What is critical thinking?
These principles are standards of what is right or wrong regarding important social values and norms.
What are ethical principles?
A nurse who acts in illegal, immoral, or unethical ways is in violation of this code.
What is the ANA Code of Ethics?
Verbal behavior that has the potential to harm or intimidate others to the extent that quality and safety can be compromised.
What is workplace violence?
This person may give consent to medical treatment if the client is incapacitated.
Who is the Durable Power of Attorney, Healthcare Proxy, or Healthcare Surrogate?
This is a technology-aided option for client assessment and communication that can enable access to care.
What is telehealth?
Patterns of behavior and thinking that are learned from living in social groups.
What is culture and diversity?
This act from 1991 gave patients the right to accept or deny certain aspects of their medical care.
What is the Patient Self-Determination Act?
This states what the expected quality and safety benchmark should be, and are set by facilities, accrediting, and professional standards.
What are the standards of care?
Organ and tissue donation are guided by federal laws, state laws, or both?
What is both?
A formal request for service from one provider to another care provider.
What is a referral?
Because nurses are _________, they have a legal obligation to report their findings in accordance with state law.
What are mandated reporters?
This organization provides certification for healthcare organizations to obtain and maintain Magnet recognition.
What is the American Nurses Credentialing Center ANCC?
This is the tool that the case management team can use to turn recommended standards into a multidisciplinary sequence of care.
What are critical or clinical pathways?
This is what the RN needs to ensure is on the patient's chart with each admission, and should clearly state patient's wishes about resuscitative measures, use of antibiotics, nutrition by artificial means, and comfort measures.
What is provider orders on life sustaining treatment (POLST)?
I-Pass and SBAR are common forms of this.
What is a communication hand-off tool?