lead 5 (my notes) Flashcards

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3 National Pt Safety Goals

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Improve Staff Communication
Use Alarms Safely
Identify Pt risks

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Explain the Pt Safety goal: Improve Staff Communication

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Get important test results to the right staff person quickly

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Explain the Pt Safety goal: Has to do with labeling…

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Before a procedure, label medicines that are unlabeled. for example meds that are in a syringe

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Explain the Pt Safety goal: Use Alarms Safely

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Make sure that alarms are responded to

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Explain the Pt Safety goal: Identify Pt risks

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figure out who is a suicide risk

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Negligence

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Carelessness or deviating from the reasonable standard of care

Often involves Non-professionals

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Malpractice is aka

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professional negligence

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Malpractice

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failure of a person with professional training to act reasonably

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Trait theory (my definition)

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you have the traits of a leader (can be taught or innate)

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Style theory (my definition)

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Has to do with forming relationships

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Situational-contingency theory (my definition)

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Lead according to the situation while you’re adapting to it

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Two factor theory (my definition)

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It’s similar to Maslow’s but more simple, it’s binary between high and low

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Element of Malpractice: Duty owed to the patient example

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for example not monitoring the patient’s response to treatment

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Element of Malpractice: Breach of the duty owed example

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You didn’t report to the provider that the patient’s status changed

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Element of Malpractice: Foreseeability example

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You didn’t make sure the minimum standards are met

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Element of Malpractice: Causation example

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Failure to provide adequate patient education

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Element of Malpractice: Injury

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Physical harm to the patient

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Element of Malpractice: damages

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because of your actions, the patient has to stay in the hospital longer, pay more medical bills, etc

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Personal liability

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Your responsibility in what happened

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Vicarious liability/respondent superior

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Means that employers can be responsible for the employee’s actions

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Indemnification

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if the institution gets sued, they can turn around and sue the nurse because they’re saying Hey we just got sued because of you

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Corporate responsibility includes having a lack of ___ staff

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lack of qualified staff

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Failure to warn

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A nurse manager is accountable if they didn’t warn other employers/the state about the actions of the employee

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Qualified privilege

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IF the employee lists you on their application, you can disclose negative info about them

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Apparent Agency
this means that the organization is responsible for contracted employers (whereas in the past the staffing agency was responsible)
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Privacy vs Confidentiality
Privacy means you don't get in people's business for no reason, confidentiality means you don't SHARE their business
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Autonomy
You have the right to make your own choices
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Beneficence
Your actions should promote goodness
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Nonmaleficence
Do no harm
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Justice
Treat everyone equally
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Paternalism
someone making decisions for someone else (it's a bad thing usually)
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Fidelity
Keeping promises
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Respect for others
Basically same thing as autonomy
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Moral distress
When 2 ethical principals compete
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Malpractice: the nurse's duty (in part) is determined by the
institutional standards
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Malpractice: the 2nd step is
showing that the duty owed was not given
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Malpractice: foreseeability means
you could've seen it coming
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Malpractice: causation means
the harm was DIRECTLY caused by the nurse's action
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6 steps in QI
``` Identify what the consumer needs Put together a multi-dis team Collect data about how services are CURRENTLY given Set goals and measurements Design a plan and start the plan Evaluate using data ```
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In the data collection phase of QI, if the data is really complicated you may need a
statistician
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In the 4th step of QI, you need to establish goals. The goals should be either
patient care outcomes or nurse sensitive outcomes
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One of the biggest challenges of management is
keeping people enthusiastic while doing rote tasks
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In management there's less ____; the desired outcomes are known
ambiguity
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Followers should engage in ___ ___ and ___ ___
identifying problems and providing feedback