Ethical & Legal Issues
Ethical & Legal Issues
Ethical & Legal Issues
Ethical & Legal Issues
Ethical & Legal Issues
100
In nursing, if you made an internet post about the aforementioned gossip known to be false, or printed out signs about it and hung them up in the hospital, and you knew these statements were untrue, that would be libel.
HINTS: Slander is spoken but libel is written, like a book in the library.
What is libel?
100
Confining a person against his or her will
What is a false imprisonment?
100
One of your fellow nursing assistants has been having a very hard time with one of her residents. The resident is confused and, as a result, is being uncooperative. In a moment of complete frustration, your coworker says to the resident, "If you don't shut up and behave yourself right now, I'm going to slap you!" What kind of an intentional tort has this nursing assistant committed?
What is Assault?
100
What is accountability?
• Accountability means being answerable for the consequences of one’s actions or inactions.
100
You are a nursing assistant working in a home health care setting. You suspect that one of your clients is being emotionally and physically abused by her husband. What should you do first?
Immediately report it to the nurse in charge.
200
What is Clinical decision support (CDS)
•Allowing the user to make informed decisions quickly and take appropriate action.
200
Provides health coverage for individuals and families with limited incomes and resources
What is Medicaid?
200
What does the abbreviation HIPAA stand for?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act--
200
What is Breach of Duty?
A nurse who does not perform duties according to the standard of care.
200
Situations arising in health care where there may be more than one good or moral solution depending on one's point of view are called?.
Ethical Dilemmas
300
If a nurse did not check a medication before administering it, and it resulted in a medication error that caused a patient harm, that would be an example of?
What is malpractice?
300
Adjective used to describe a person who fails to do what a "careful and reasonable" person would do in any given situation
What is negligence?
300
Determines what is within the scope of the law, the nurse must know that the legal duties and functions of the nurse required by law.
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
300
What communication databases allow nurses to make informed decisions quickly?
Clinical decision support (CDS)
300
•“A combination of computer science, information science, and nursing science designed to assist in the management and processing of nursing data, information, and knowledge to support the practice of nursing and the delivery of nursing care”
What is informatics?
400
A document that allows a person to make his wishes regarding health care known to family members and health care workers
What is an advanced directive?
400
Permission granted by a patient to begin treatment or perform a procedure after receiving a full explanation from the health care provider
What is informed consent?
400
For example, if you were the nurse on duty, assigned to a patient, and you just decided to abruptly go home without handing over care to anybody else.
What is abandonment?
400
_______ means to treat people fairly and equally regardless of race, religion, culture, disability, or ability to pay.
What is Justice
400
_____ are moral principles or standards that help us decide between right and wrong conduct.
What is Ethics
500
In nursing, if you were to gossip about a patient aloud to another nurse, "Did you hear that this patient did such-and-such?" while knowing that it was untrue.
What is slander?
500
What is Medicare
•It covers individuals who are 65 years of age or older, permanently disabled workers of any age with specific disabilities, and persons with end-stage renal disease.
500
Every person has the right to make decisions about matters that affect him personally. This is called?
What is autonomy?
500
•The purpose of this is to set rates for health care services in advance rather than after the services had been performed.
Diagnosis-Related Groups
500
What is Emergency Preparedness?
term that is used to describe the processes involved in planning for a public health emergency.