NUR 406 Final
- Standards
Answer communicate the EXPECTATIONS of safe and effective nursing practice within the scope of the practice. (regulated by the Board of Nursing)
- Algorithms
Answer a stepwise decision-making flowchart for a specific care process or processes. Algorithms guide the clinician through the "if, then" decision making process
- Practice Guidelines
Answer usually created by an expert panel and developed by a professional organization.Typically written in text prose style rather than a flowchart.
- Protocols
Answer a common tool in research studies. Protocols are more directive and rigid than guidelines, and providers are not supposed to vary from a protocol. Built in alerts signal the provider to potentially serious problems.
- What is the AACN and what does it do?
Answer The AACN is the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, most closely associated with critical care nurses.The world's largest specialty nursing organization created in 1969. Develops and administers many critical care specialty certifications examination for registered nurses.Created the beacon of excellence reward for exceptional care through improved outcomes and greater overall satisfaction.
- Nursing process
what is it? 1 / 4
Answer Assess, Diagnose, Planning, Implementing, Eval- uating
- Components of evidence-based practice
Answer Evidence-based nursing practice considers the BEST RESEARCH EVIDENCE on the care topic, along with CLIN- ICAL EXPERTISE of the nurse, and PATIENT PREFERENCE.AANC has promul- gated several EBP summaries in the form of a "practice alert"
- Respect for persons/autonomy
Answer honor the patients right to autonomy or to self-determine a course of action without coercion or undue interference from others.
- Beneficence and non-maleficence
Answer actions that maximize good and minimize harm to the patient, often in a delicate balance.
- Veracity
Answer the quality of being truthful, a principle that underlies a trusting rela- tionship between nurse and patient
- Fidelity
Answer an essential aspect of nursing, is the quality of keeping commitments and includes commitments to confidentiality and privacy; it is based on the virtue of caring.
- Justice
Answer equitable distribution of limited resources (usually organs for trans- plant, access to healthcare, which is not a constitutional right)
- 8 Steps in the ethical decision making model
- Identify health problems 2 / 4
Answer
- Define the ethical issue(s)
- Gather additional information (contextual data, useful information)
- Identify the stakeholders and delineate the decision-maker
- Examine ethical norms and other relevant norms (personal values, beliefs, moral convictions
of all involved in the decision process should be examined as they may
inappropriately influence decisions away from the values and preferences of the patient)
- Explore alternative options
- Implement decisions/Act
- Evaluate and modify actions
- Torts
Answer civil lawsuits based on unintentional acts (failure to act or negligence that results in harm) or intentional acts, such as assault, battery, or defamation.
- Ordinary Negligence
Answer failing to act as a reasonably prudent person would under similar circumstances
1) duty to another person 2) breach of that duty 3) harm that would not have occurred in the absence of the breach (causation), 4) damages that have a monetary value
- Professional Malpractice
Answer malpractice requires the alleged wrongdoer to have special standing as professional
- Breach
Answer failure to act within applicable standards of care
- Professional Malpractice and the Nursing Process
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Answer • Assessment failure
failure to assess and analyze the level of care needed by the patient
• Assessment failure failure to ascertain a patients wishes with regard to self-deter- mination (pay attn. to patient wishes)
• Implementation failure failure to take appropriate action and failure to document
• Implementation failure failure to preserve patient privacy and confidentiality
• Evaluation failure failure to act as a patient advocate
- Wrongful death
Answer negligence action in which the harm is the actual death of the individual
- Assault
Answer any intentional act that creates reasonable fear of immediate harmful or offensive contact
- Battery
Answer any intentional act that brings about actual harmful or offensive contact
- Principles of adult education
- Adults learn best through
Answer
lived experiences and motivation to learn is internal and problem-oriented focusing on life events.
- Andragogy
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