The greatest legal concern of healthcare practitioners
What is known as malpractice
Sublingual
What is SL
Giving someone authority to act for another
what is delegation
The nurse throws a medication bottle in the garbage can that has the patient's name on it.
What is a HIPAA violation
The patients identifiable information remains on the bottle that someone could get out of the trash
A patient complains of pain and the RN gives him 4mg of IV Morphine. The nurse does not return to check on the patient for 2 hours.
What is known as negligence.
The nurse should re-assess a patient in 30 minutes to see if the pain medication is working and document it.
Subqutaneous
What is SQ
A patient has been extremely anxious and is a fall risk. The nurse has tried several interventions to calm the patient down. The nurse offers the patient an anti-anxiety medication but the patient refused it. The nurse is afraid that the patient will fall and administers the medication IV when the patient isn't looking.
What is battery
A nurse takes a selfie with a patient and puts it on Facebook
HIPAA violation
The nurse did not have the patients permission to tell people the patient was in the hospital
Nancy is an RN who works in both Iowa and Wisconsin under the same license, how is she able to do this?
What is known as the Nurse Licensure Compact. (There are 24 compact states at this time.)
Every other day
What is QOD
A patient refused his prune juice for breakfast and the nurse tells the patient, " If you don't drink your juice, your going to have to have a suppository later."
What is assault
You transfer a patient from your hospital to another for a higher level of care. The admitting hospital calls and requests recent lab work on the patient.
What is not a HIPAA violation
(but still need informed consent obtained)
The NCLEX-RN is a national examination; therefore, all states recognize the licensure awarded in other states because the nurses have passed the NCLEX-RN. Applying for another states licensure is?
What is known as licensure by endorsement
Hour of sleep
What is HS
A patient needs a blood transfusion due to a GI bleed. The nurse explains to the patient all possible side effects that could occur during the transfusion but also explains why the patient is in need of the blood and allows the patient to decide if they would like treatment.
What is informed consent
Your nurse colleague comes up to you and says, "I hear your taking care of Nancy Smith, she is my neighbor. What brings her into the hospital?"
What is a HIPAA violation
We are on a need to know basis
Defines the practice of professional nursing
Sets the minimum educational qualifications and other requirements for licensure
Determines the legal titles and abreviations nurses may use
Provides for disciplinary action of licensees for certain causes
What are the objectives of the Nurse Practice Act in each state
Intramuscular
What is IM
Right task, Right circumstances, Right person, Right directions/communication, and Right supervision/evaluation
What are the 5 rights to ensure safe delegation
You work on the surgical floor of a hospital but have computer access to all units of the hospital for floating purposes. You look to see how many patients have been admitted to the psych floor compared to the surgical floor your working on.
What is a HIPAA violation
You are on a need to know basis