Components of Professionalism
The highest rank professionals in the United States
Who are Nurses?
A personal standard of right or wrong related to conduct, character and attitude.
What is morality?
Tardiness and breach of patient confidentiality is an example which concept.
What is unprofessional behavior?
This encompasses the rights, responsibilities, and scope of nursing practice as defined by the state nurse practice acts and as legislated through criminal and civil laws.
What is legal issues?
Patients are entitled to certain foundational entitlement regarding their healthcare.
What is the patients rights?
How you dress and act demonstrate commitment to the nursing profession.
What is professional behavior?
This defines what is right or wrong.
What is values?
This professional behavior is foundational when building patient trust.
What is communication?
Healthcare agency create these to ensure that relevant laws are followed to promote patient safety and reduce the risk for errors resulting in adverse events.
What are policy and procedures?
What is the Joint Commission's Speak Up Campaign?
A process that facilitates growth and transformation.
What is teaching and learning?
What you conclude to be true.
What is a belief?
Assessing a patient or family member for their cultural needs demonstrates this professional behavior.
Conduct that deviates from what a reasonable person would do in a particular situation.
What is negligence?
A document that explains the procedure and its risks and potential complications.
What is informed consent?
Attitude and compassion are key to the nursing profession.
What are caring interventions?
Societal moral values that offer guidance on what is considered moral.
What is the law?
Following safety guidelines and principles follows this professional behavior.
What is evidence based practice?
This defines unintentional and intentional actions or omissions that result in harm to another person or their personal property.
What is a tort law?
An independent group that sets safety and quality rules for hospitals in the US.
Who is the Joint Commission?
You are the patient's voice.
What is advocacy?
To back up or speak up to support another individual.
What is to advocate?
Ensuring this professional behavior is followed leads to the highest standard of care for our patients.
What is safety?
The conduct of a reasonably skilled, competent and experienced individual (such as a professional nurse), qualified to engage in a particular activity but fails to meet the standard conduct, known as “acts of omission”.
What is malpractice?
The following system is put into place to decrease errors, ePrescribe, barcode medication administration and Pyxis systems.
What is a patient protected system?