CEN Professional Issues Flashcards
HIPPA law was passes in ______(year) and ensure
1996; confidentiality of patient’s records
When someone revert to an earlier level of professional development?
regression
Psychological defense mechanism when one consciously forgets painful feelings?
Suppression
when someone directs energy from unacceptable thoughts into socially acceptable behavior?
Sublimation
If a facility treats a patient against the patient’s will, the facility could face legal charges of
false imprisonment or assault and battery
Stages of crisis are
Shock
Disorganization: demanding and angry
Reorganization: Difficulty making decisions
Resolution: accepts the crisis
Which situations is legally required to be REPORTED in all 50 States?
CHILD ABUSE or NEGLECT
A natural disaster in an example of what type of crisis?
_______
A____________crisis involves changes in self-concept as a result of growth and development______
Adventitious; maturational crisis
Conduction research in order to solve a particular problem identified is
Applied research
Research performed by solving problems by controlling variables and biases
Scientific method
The only acceptable decision-making approach in health care
Deontology : actions are either right or wrong bases on rules and morals
Actions are either right or wrong bases on the action’s consequences and usefulness
Teleology:
The greatest good for the greatest number is the morally right thing to do
Utilitarianism
In a shooting incident the nurse should place the patient’s hands in
Brown paper bags (regardless victim or shooter)
Experiencing moral distress Four A’s model
Ask, affirm, assess, Act
Ethical principle that means a nurse cannot intentionally or non-intentionally harm the patient
Nonmaleficence
If patient is being sarcastic or insulting, what is the patient feeling toward the stress in his/her life
Anger
best teaching strategy for poor reader
using examples and reviewing content regularly
APIED
Assessment Planning Implementation Evaluation Documentation
Administrative hearing can lead to
loss of privileges
monetary consequences
Discipline
When face with ethical dilemma, the nurse should
Gather information that is pertinent to the ethical dilemma
to preserve evidence
use paper bags to store clothing
Do not fold patient’s clothing before putting it in bag
Each piece of cloth should be in separate paper bag
If nurse is sued by family for wrongful death, what type of court case is suspected
Civil
To be considerate literate, at what grade level must an individual be able to read
5th grade
