Lawful RN
A nurse's negligence or any intentional act that causes physical, financial, emotional, psychosocial and/or cognitive damage to the person in the nurse's care.
What is Nursing Malpractice?
Cash inflow from providing patient services
What is Revenue?
Nursing involves providing holistic, quality care based on the most up-to-date research knowledge rather than traditional methods, advice from colleagues or personal beliefs.
What is Evidence-Based Practice ?
The use of specific actions and activities to prevent contamination and maintain sterility
What is Sterile Technique?
Temperature of the water to remove gross debris.
What is cool water?
A breach of duty to another person as outlined by law
What is a tort?
Costs related to cash inflow such as patient care equipment and personnel salaries.
What is Expenses?
PICO is an acronym to help formulate a clinical question and guide your search for evidence. PICO stands for:
P= Patient or Problem (describe your group)
I=Intervention (main intervention)
C=Comparison (what would be the alternative to the intervention you selected)
O=Outcome (what do you hope to accomplish, measure or improve)
The use of physical or chemical means to remove, inactivate, or destroy blood-borne or other pathogens on a surface or item.
What is decontamination?
Instruments are rendered safe for handling after being processed using this hands-free machine.
What is a Washer Decontaminator/Disinfector?
The four elements of malpractice are:
What is Duty, Breach of Duty, The Breach of duty caused an injury and the injury was harmful to the patient
Costs related to the service provided, such as supplies and salaries of those providing direct patient care
What is Direct Expenses?
Policies and procedures are created and implemented for the protection of the:
What are patients, Personnel and Organization?
Disinfected items should be categorized as critical, semi- critical or noncritical
What is the Spaulding Classification System?
The step after decontamination.
What is assembly?
An employer is legally responsible for the nurse employee only when the nurse acts within the scope of practice, the nurse was employed during the time of allegations and the nurse's actions with within employer's best interests.
What is Respondeat Superior?
Costs not related directly to patient care
What is Indirect Expenses?
These are the sources for policies and procedures:
What are regulatory agencies, accreditation agencies and specialty association recommendations?
Items that come in contact with mucous membranes and do not ordinarily penetrate the body surface fall into this classification
What are semi-critical items?
It demands the recognition of improper practices observed during surgery by any member of the health care team and the ability to report one’s own breaks in technique so that corrective action can be taken.
What is Surgical Conscience?
Actions of a reasonable and prudent professional in the same or similar circumstances
What is the Standard of Care?
Employee payment when not in direct patient care.
What is Non-productive time?
This organization provides recommendations for patient care based on the systematic review of evidence for perioperative nursing.
What is the AORN Guidelines for Perioperative Practice?
The person who monitors the implementation of aseptic techniques by all surgical team members and ensures that breaks in technique are corrected
Who is the perioperative nurse?
During assembly this must be used to separate items that are nested, such as basins.
What in an absorbent towel?