EXAM 1 NUR 110 Flashcards
Nurse must be fair when distributing care
Justice
Nurse does the good and the right thing for patients.
Benficence
Nurse respects patient right to make decisions about their healthcare.
Autonomy
Nurse is faithful and true to keeping promises
Fidelity
Nurses does no harm.
Nonmalificence
Personal right and wrong.
Morals
Nurse is completely truthful with patients
Veracity
Right or wrong depends on consequence of action
utilitarian
action is rightt or wrong depending on a rule-not consequences
Deontologic
Combination of utilitarian and deontologic
Principal-based approach
Non-negotiable nursing ethical standards
Nursing code of ethics
Putting yourself in another’s circumstances
Empathy
Two conflicting courses of action
Dilemma
Providing care using the code of ethics and reporting errors.
Integrity
One’s own belief in ability to reach a goal
self-efficacy
threat or attempt to make bodily contact
assault
Willful, purposeful, misrepresentation
Fraud
Written defamation of character
libel
Assault that is carried out contact made
battery
Spoken defamation of character
slander
Consent must always be in this form.
Written
Can sign when patient is unable to sign.
Person legally responsible for patient.
Person responsible for obtaining informed consent
person doing the procedure or research.
Nurses role in documentation of consent in chart
confirm presence
Nurses can only answer questions
about consent not the procedure/research.
When you assume your assignment for shift.
Duty
Actual harm or injury to a patient
damages
failure to meet the standard of care.
breech of duty
Failure to exercise appropriate and or ethical care.
Negligence
Most difficult element of malpractice to prove
causation
Failure to provide care that a reasonable person in same situation would.
malpractice
Fosters development of student nurses
NSNA National student nurses Association
Continuing education for BS and higher degrees
AACN
Improves nursing education through accrediting
ACEN
Fosters research and dev. To improve practice
NLN
Establishes scope of practice, clinical, policy, ethical standards
ANA American Nursing Association
Founder of profesional Nursing
Florence Nightingale
Theory stressed interpersonal relationships
Hildegard Peplaue
4 Element of a Theory
Person, environment, health, Nursing
Theory stressed caring
Jean Watson
Developed “sunrise” transcultural
Leininger
Type obtained through research
Scientific
Common source of information not scientific
Wikipedia
“we have always done it this way”
Traditional
Comes from an expert as truth
authoritative
used to make our practice valid
Evidence-based
The “I” in PICOT stand for
Intervention
Information that a researcher collects
Data
Research based on an individual’s perception
Qualitative
Objective, factual, basic research
Quantitative
Research used at the bedside
Applied
how frequently a disease occurs
morbidity
Teaching a diabetic S&S of low blood sugar
Tertiary
Giving medication
Second level
Teaching about eating healthy
Primary
Most important tool in secondary prevention
Screening
Important title for a school of nursing
Accredited
Test given after graduation from nursing school
NCLEX
Act giving the scope limit of practice
Nurse Practice Act
organization that gives nursing license
SBON
Who is the head of the SBON
Governor
Complete state of physical, mental and social well-being
Health
