Nursing and the Law
The LPN is expected to do this during the assessment phase of the nursing process.
What is collect data.
This communication technique demonstrates to the client that the nurse is actively listening by repeating the client's words back in the nurse's own words.
What is paraphrasing? (FAHN pg. 65)
The nurse knows the abbreviation "BSC" stands for:
What is Bed Side Commode?
A patient that complains of pain, difficulty breathing, and feeling faint is providing the LPN with this type of data.
What is subjective data?
This concept refers to professional negligence and must contain the four key elements of duty, breach, harm, and proximate cause.
What is malpractice? (FAHN p22)
A student nurse who prepares diligently for a clinical assignment to protect her client from harm is practicing this ethical principle.
What is non-maleficence? (think "mal" is wrong or harm)
To "act in the patient's best interest and an ethical and legal duty to do nothing that has a harmful effect on the patient". (FAHN p 34)
Interaction that takes into account the feelings and needs of the client, yet honors the nurse's rights as an individual.
What is assertive communication. (FAHN p. 61)
The student nurse recognizes that bid, tid, and qid are abbreviations for:
What is "twice daily", "three times daily", and "four times daily"?
This requires healthcare facilities to provide client's with: access to care without prejudice, treatment with respect and dignity, privacy and confidentiality, safety, and complete information about their condition/treatment.
Patient Bill of Rights. (FAHN p.26)
Going off duty without giving report rather than care for patients on an unfamiliar unit is an example of this.
What is patient abandonment? (Box 2-3 FAHN p.24)
This style of communication allows the client to elaborate freely on a subject without requiring a specific response and is also useful in assessing their feelings.
What is open ended questioning? (FAHN p. 65)
The LPN knows that this criteria for charting could protect their license.
What is charting as often as necessary?
A client develops respiratory distress immediately after the nurse administers an improper medication. The legal action that is brought against the nurse is known as this.
What is a lawsuit? (malpractice)
The LPN student knows that this ethical principle means that all patients have the same right to nursing care/interventions.
What is justice? (FAHN p. 34)
This action is involves giving an elderly client time to process information before expecting a reply.
What are ways to eliminate communication barriers? (FAHN p. 70-71)
The WATC LPN student remembers that the purpose of documentation is to:
What is maintain a legal and financial record of care? (FAHN pg.38)
This is the phase of the nursing process in which the LPN participates with the greatest degree of independence.
What is data collection and implementation?
A nurse who angrily tells a patient, “If you don’t go to sleep, I’m going to give you an injection,” can be accused of this.
What is assault? Box 2-3 FAHN p 24
These standards are "coupled with the scope of nursing practice to give direction to the practicing nurse".
What are nursing standards of care? (FAHN p25)
Method of communication that is most appropriate for an alert non-verbal client on a ventilator.
What is a communication board?
A method of communication among health care workers that prevents errors from poor communication during report.
What is SBAR? (FAHN p.41)
During this phase of the nursing process the nurse decides which interventions are most beneficial for the client.
What is the planning phase?