Code Of Ethics Flashcards
Code of Ethics
Philosophical ideals of right and wrong that define principles used to provide care.
Incorporate your own values and ethics into your practice.
Treat patients equally.
Benner’s stages of nursing practice
Novice
Advanced beginner
Competent
Proficient
Expert
Nursing essential skills
Time management
Therapeutic communication
Patient education
Compassionate implementation of bedside skills( Big Thing )
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
( QSEN )
Patient centered care
Teamwork and collaboration
Evidence based practice
Quality improvement
Safety
Informatics
Patient centered care
Provide dignity and respect; honor patient/ family choices
Incorporate cultural background values and beliefs of patients and families into health care
Encourage fam and patients to participate in decision making about their healthcare needs
Share complete and unbiased information current, timely, complete
Collaborate with patients and families to develop and implement patient centered policies programs education and care delivery
Preventative care
Reduces and controls risk factors for disease
Primary care
Focuses on improved health outcomes
Requires collaboration
Health promotion programs lower overall costs
Reduce incidence of disease
Minimizes complications
Reduces the need for more expensive resources
Secondary and Tertiary care
Focus: diagnosis and treatment of disease
Disease management, most common and expensive service of the health care delivery system
Postponement of care by uninsured contributes to high cost
Restorative care
Serves patients recovering from an acute or chronic illness/ disability
Helps individuals regain maximal function and enhances quality of life
Promotes patient independence and self care abilities
Requires multidisciplinary approach
Settings: Home Care, Rehabilitation, Extended Care
Continuing Care
For people who are disabled, functionally dependent, or suffering a terminal disease
Available within institutional settings or in the home:
Assisted living
Respite Care
Adult Day Care Centers
Hospice
Respite care
Service that offers short term relief by providing a new environment or time to relax for family caregivers.
Palliative Care
Holistic patient and family centered care approach with a goal of improving the quality
Hospice care
Family centered care that allows patients to love with comfort.
Focus on improving quality of life and comfort with life limiting illness
Most comfortable at end of life
Ethics
Study of conduct and character
Values
Personal beliefs about the worth of a given idea attitude custom or object that standards and influence behavior
Issues in health care delivery
Nursing shortage
Competency
Evidence based practice
Quality and safety in health care patient centered care
Health care organizations being evaluated on basis of outcomes
Autonomy (know)
Commitment to include patients in decisions
Beneficence (know)
Taking positive actions to help others
Nonmaleficence (know)
Avoidance of harm or hurt
Justice (know)
Being fair
Fidelity (know)
Agreement to keep promises
Culturally congruent care
Gita a persons valued life patterns and set of meanings
Requires specific knowledge skills and attitudes in delivery of care
Culturally competent care
Process of acquiring specific knowledge skills and attitudes to provide culturally congruent care
