FINAL Flashcards
(20 cards)
The principle of fairness that is served when an individual is given that which he or she is due, owed, deserves, or can legitimately claim.
Justice
The duty to do good to others and to maintain a balance between benefits and harms.
Beneficence
The principle of doing no harm.
Non-maleficence
Failure to provide the care a reasonable person would ordinarily provide in a similar situation.
Negligence
A professional’s wrongful conduct in discharge of professional duties or failure to meet standards of care for the profession, which results in harm to an individual entrusted to the professional’s care.
Malpractice
An individual’s right to self determination and individual liberty.
Autonomy
The process for getting permission before conducting a healthcare interventions on a person. A health care provider may ask a patient to consent to receive therapy before providing it, or a clinical researcher may ask a research participant before enrolling that person into a clinical trial.
Informed Consent
A legal document in which a person specifies what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make discussions for themselves.
Advance Directives
Is a written advance directive voluntarily signed by the patient that specifies the type of care desired if and when the patient is in a terminal state and cannot sign a consent form or convey this information verbally.
Living Will
Is a legal document executed by an individual granting another person the right to perform certain activities in the principal’s name.
Durable Power of Attorney
The branch of philosophy that concerns the distinction between right from wrong on the basis of a body of knowledge, not just on the basis of opinions.
Ethics
A strategy to improve patient care and reduce hospital costs through coordination
Case Management
Workers can say whatever they want without judgement. What is said does not leave the room, it should be a safe place.
Critical Incident Debriefing
An inspection approach to quality used to ensure that health care institutions maintained minimum standards of care. Consists primarily of chart audits of various patient diagnoses and procedures.
Quality Assurance
A management philosophy to improve the organizational structure and the level of performance of key processes in the organization to achieve high quality outcomes.
Quality Improvement
Defined by the “who, what, where, when , why, and how of nursing practice including advanced practice nursing.
Scope of Practice
This legislation requires many hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, hospice providers, health care maintenance organizations, and other health care institutions to provide information about advance health care directives to adult patients upon their admission to the healthcare facility. This law does not apply to individual physicians.
PDSA
Standards for privacy of individually identifiable health information, provided the first nationally- recognized regulations for the use/ disclosure of an individual’s heal information.
HIPAA
A book informing patients of what to expect on their hospital stay, discusses their rights to their high quality hospital care, a clean and safe environment, involvement in their care, protection of their privacy, help when leaving the hospital, and help with billing claims.
Patient Care Partnership
DO: respond in a feeling tone, provide information, focus on the client, use silence, use presence.
DON’T: ask “why” questions, ask “yes/no” questions, except in the case of possible self- harm, focus on the nurse, explore, say “don’t worry”.
Therapeutic Communication
