Ethical and legal

Question 1

Beneficence

Answer 1

Actively doing good

Question 2

Non-maleficence

Answer 2

Avoid harm

Question 3

Respect for autonomy

Answer 3

Respect patients decisions

Question 4

Veracity

Answer 4

Truthful

Question 5

Justice

Answer 5

Equal, fair

Question 6

Accountability

Answer 6

accept responsibility for one’s actions

Question 7

Advocacy

Answer 7

Support patient’s decisions

Question 8

Confidentiality

Answer 8

Private information

Question 9

Fidelity

Answer 9

Keep promoses and agreements

Question 10

Responsibility

Answer 10

Dependent and reliable

Question 11

Deontology by Kant

Answer 11

Focus is on the right or wrongness of individual behaviors, duties, and obligations without concern for consequences

Report corruption without thinking of consequences

Question 12

Utilitarialism

Answer 12

The principal of “Greatest Happiness”.
Advocates tend to be concerned with social justice and a resistance to rules

Question 13

Rights based

Answer 13

Focused on the rights of the individual not on the effects of society as a whole

Question 14

Justice based

Answer 14

No individual person should have any advantage over another

Question 15

Virtue based

Answer 15

Focused on personal traits of individuals rather than societal norms

Question 16

Code of ethics

Answer 16

A formalized statement that defines values, morals, and standards guiding practice in a specific discipline or profession.

Question 17

Moral distress

Answer 17

The anguish that healthcare professionals experience when their basic beliefs of what is right and wrong or ethical principles are challenged

Question 18

Moral resileince

Answer 18

The capacity of an individual to sustain or restore integrity in response to moral complexity, confusion, distress, or setbacks

Question 19

Model for ethical decision making
AIPIE

Answer 19

ASSESSMENT- Gather subjective and objective data about the situation.
IDENTIFY- What is the conflict?
PLAN- Explore benefits and consequences, consider theories, select alternative.
IMPLEMENTATION- Act and communicate.
EVALUATION- What was outcome?

Question 21

Constitutional law

Answer 21

is derived from a formal, written constitution that defines the powers of government & responsibilities of elected officials

Question 22

Statutory Law

Answer 22

is created by legislative bodies.

Question 23

Regulatory law

Answer 23

State legislature gives authority to administrative bodies to create regulative law.

Question 24

Case law

Answer 24

Judicial decisions from individual court cases determine case law.

Question 25

Tort

Answer 25

Wrongs committed to another person

Question 26

Assault

Answer 26

Threat to bodily harm

Question 27

Battery

Answer 27

Actual bodily harm

Question 28

Difference between libel and slander

Answer 28

Libel-written defamation
Slander- oral defamation

Question 29

Unintentional torts

Answer 29

Malpractice
Negrligence

Question 30

Malpractice

Answer 30

Negligence committed by a person practicing within a professional role.

Question 31

Negligence

Answer 31

Failure to do something that a reasonable person would ordinarily do.

Question 32

Four D’s of negligence

Answer 32

Duty-owed a duty of care to the accusing patient.
Dereliction-actions did not meet the standard of care required or that care was totally omitted
Damages-Actual injury to the accusing patient must be evident.
Direct cause-A causal relationship must be established between harm to the accusing patient and the actions or omitted acts of the nurse.

Question 33

Misdemeanor

Answer 33

a crime of lesser consequence that is punishable by a fine or incarceration in a local or county jail for up to 1 year

Question 34

Felony

Answer 34

more serious crime that results in the perpetrator’s being imprisoned in a state or federal facility for more than 1 year.

Question 35

Informed consent

Answer 35

permission granted by a patient after discussing
1) exact details of the treatment
(2) necessity of the treatment
(3) all known benefits and risks involved
(4) available alternatives
(5) risks of treatment refusal.

Question 36

Advance directives consist of two types of documents

Answer 36

living wills and documents appointing a health care proxy, commonly referred to as a durable power of attorney for health care

Question 37

Living will

Answer 37

specifies the treatment a person wants to receive when the patient is unconscious or no longer capable of making decisions independently

Question 38

Healthcare proxy

Answer 38

legal document that allows a designated person to make legal and financial decisions on behalf of an individual unable or not permitted to make legal decisions independently.

Question 39

Licensure of nurses seeks to ensure

Answer 39

professional competence

Question 40

minimum requirements for providing safe nursing care

Answer 40

Standards of care

Question 41

Good samaritan acts
When does it apply?

Answer 41

Protect HCP who provide emergency care at the scene of a disaster, emergency, or accident
(1) the care is within the professional’s scope of knowledge and standards of care and (2) no fee is received or charged for services

Question 42

Uniform determinant of Death

Answer 42

(1) all spontaneous respiratory and circulatory function stops
(2) all brain function, including that of the brainstem, ends.

Question 43

Brain death requirements set by state laws

Answer 43

(1) the patient is completely unresponsive to painful stimuli
(2) the patient has no involuntary responses to brainstem stimuli, such as pupillary responses; and (3) the patient has no spontaneous respirations when removed from a ventilator