Confidentiality & Information Security/Legal Practice
Disruptive Behavior / Ethical Practice
Miscellaneous
100
These are the legal guarantees that clients have with regard to their health care.
What are client rights?
100
Types of treatments that are often addressed in a living will are those that have the capacity to prolong THIS.
What is life?
100
This was enacted to protect the confidentiality of health care information and to give the client the right to control the release of information.
What is HIPAA?
100
This type of chain offers some protection against retribution.
What is the chain of command?
100
This person may witnesses informed consent.
Who is a nurse?
200
This health care professional is responsible for protecting clients rights such as informed consent, refusal of treatment, advanced directives.
Who is the nurse?
200
Two components of an advanced directive are the durable power of attorney for healthcare and this
What is a living will
200
These are the health care members that are allowed access to the clients records.
What is only healthcare members DIRECTLY responsible for the client's care?
200
Characterized by sabotage, gossip, and ostracism, this type of violence occurs between individuals of the same rank.
What is horizontal abuse?
We were also willing to accept "lateral abuse" or "horizontal hostility"
200
If a problem cannot be solved solely by review of scientific data, involves conflict between two moral imperatives, or the answer will have a profound effect on the situation or client it is known as THIS.
What is an ethical dilemma?
300
The document that a patient is required to sign when leaving the facility without a discharge order.
What is the "against medical advice" form?
300
Unless this is written and in the patient's medical record, the nurse should initiate CPR when a client has no pulse or respirations.
What is a Do Not Resuscitate order?
300
When a nurse fails to implement safety measures for a client who had been identified as at risk for falls this nurse is guilty of
What is negligence
300
The values and beliefs held by a person that guide behavior and decision-making.
What are morals?
300
Unusual or complex ethical issues may need to be dealt with by this type of committee.
What is an ethics committee?
400
This particular role is important for a nurse, especially when clients are unable to speak or act for themselves.
What is patient advocacy?
400
The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) requires that all patients admitted to a health care facility be asked if they have THIS.
What are advanced directives?
400
These acts govern nursing practice, and legal guidelines for practice are established and enforced through a state board of nursing of other government agency.
What is the nurse practice act of each state?
400
The number of formal definitions of death as developed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.
What is 2?
(irreversible cessation of circulatory/respiratory function and irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem)
400
The conduct of one person that makes another person fearful and apprehensive.
What is assault?
500
These are essential components of what aspect of patient care: risk-taking, self-confidence, articulate communication, assertiveness, caring, respect empowerment and autonomy.
What are essential components of advocacy?
500
For an invasive procedure or surgery, the patient is required to provide this type of consent.
What is written consent?
500
This is how nurses can avoid being liable for negligence.
What is following standards of care, giving competent care, communicating with healthcare members, develop rapport with client, documenting appropriately?
500
This type of disruptive behavior is persistent and relentlessly aimed at an individual with a limited ability to defend him/herself.
What is bullying?
500
The amount of mandated reportable communicable diseases.