Nurs 120 Exam #1 chapter 1-4

Question 1

A diagram used to connect data about a client’s plan of care through round, square, triangular, and colored content areas that are linked with broken or solid lines. ​

Answer 1

Concept Map

Question 2

Telling an acquaintance about a mutual friend who is hospitalized for a sexually transmitted disease is a violation of this law

Answer 2

Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Question 3

The nurse’s response to a client who confides to them a lack of understanding of the risks of a procedure for which they have signed informed consent. ​

Answer 3

notify the responsible provider prior to completing the procedure

Question 4

The action a nurse must take when they suspect a colleague is diverting client drugs for personal use.

Answer 4

report to nursing supervisor?​

Question 5

Best suited Nursing Care Delivery System for a unit that includes 30 clients needing medications, treatments, therapies, and pain management with a staff of 2 RNs, 3 LPNs, and 3 CNAs. ​

Answer 5

Team Nursing

Question 6

A client with HMO insurance must do what prior to seeing a specialist for a skin condition? ​

Answer 6

obtain a referral from their Primary Care Provider

Question 7

The possible result when a nurse exhibits unprofessional conduct. ​

Answer 7

negative patient outcomes.

Question 8

An entry level program for Nursing. ​

Answer 8

9 months to a year long LPN/LVN nursing program at a technical college or career technology center? ​

Question 9

A type of intervention that requires a provider order before a nurse can implement it. ​

Answer 9

a dependent intervention? ​

Question 10

A PES statement. ​

Answer 10

a 3 part Nursing Diagnosis

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Question 11

The Nursing Diagnosis determined by the RN to be appropriate for the assigned client’s care must be approved by ___________.

Answer 11

NANDA

Question 12

A tool that is helpful in prioritizing nursing care. ​

Answer 12

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs

Question 13

A __________ is a uniquely nursing function that focuses on the needs of patients. ​

Answer 13

Nursing Diagnosis

Question 14

An assessment procedure used by nurses to collect client information (data) for formulation of a Nursing Diagnosis​

Answer 14

Physical Assessment

Question 15

A type of subjective data provided by a family member of the client. ​

Answer 15

secondary data

Question 16

Part of the Nursing Process that includes collection of subjective and objective data​

Answer 16

Assessment

Question 17

Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation (ADPIE) ​

Answer 17

Nursing Process

Question 18

A voluntary agreement made by a competent patient to be treated by a healthcare provider or institution. ​

Answer 18

informed consent

Question 19

Legal document owned by a health care facility that contains a client’s health information. ​

Answer 19

Patient Health Record

Question 20

Statutes that are designed to protect the public and track outbreaks or occurrences of disease. ​

Answer 20

Mandatory Reporting Laws​

Question 21

Expected specific measurable actions by a client within a specific time frame are known as this.​

Answer 21

Outcomes/Goals? ​

Question 22

State agency that is tasked with administration and enforcement of the Nurse Practice Act. ​

Answer 22

State Board of Nursing

Question 23

Referred to as the “healthcare privacy protector”

Answer 23

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Question 24

A type of law that protects an individual’s personal rights including health care issues. ​

Answer 24

civil laws

Question 25

Situation where a decision must be made between two opposing alternatives when there is not an exact right or wrong answer.

Answer 25

Ethical Dilemma

Question 26

Failure to provide the same care that another person would provide under the same circumstance. ​

Answer 26

negligence

Question 27

This is made up of the values that influence a person’s decisions and behavior. It can be partly determined by a person’s morals. ​

Answer 27

Ethics

Question 28

Provides health care coverage for poor and medically indigent individuals, pregnant women with income below the poverty level, children meeting certain income level requirements, and certain disabled individuals meeting income level requirements. ​

Answer 28

Medicaid

Question 29

Delivery system that encourages the client to take control of and manage their own care.​

Answer 29

Client-Centered Care

Question 30

Includes hospital outpatient department, outpatient mental health services, cardiac rehabilitation, pulmonary rehabilitation, health departments, physicians’ offices, home health care agencies, and hospice. ​

Answer 30

outpatient facilities

Question 31

Includes acute care hospital, long-term acute care hospital, skilled nursing facility, rehabilitation facility, and residential care facility. ​

Answer 31

Inpatient settings

Question 32

Consists of medical staff, nursing staff, therapy staff, laboratory staff, radiology staff, ancillary staff, etc. ​

Answer 32

Health-Care Team

Question 33

Term that refers to the total amount that an insurance provider will extend to an enrolled provider each month to manage health care for those members. ​

Answer 33

capitation

Question 34

Medical necessity and __________are the most important factors in health-care delivery and economics. ​

Answer 34

appropriate level of care

Question 35

This program was created in 2010 to address many problems in the current health care system including lifetime limits and denial of coverage based on pre-existing conditions.

Answer 35

Affordable Care Act ​

Question 36

Federal Government’s health insurance program for people older than 65 years of age or those with certain disabilities or conditions. ​

Answer 36

Medicare​

Question 37

Project that focuses on the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed by nurses to continually improve patient care. ​

Answer 37

QSEN

Question 38

Use of drugs or alcohol in ways that endanger a patient, failure to supervise nursing assistants, and Violations of the Nurse Practice Act? ​

Answer 38

Unprofessional Conduct

Question 39

Opportunities for leadership, stay current on EBP, and stay current with policy​

Answer 39

benefits of joining a professional organizations

Question 40

2 of 4 characteristics of being a competent nurse

Answer 40

responsible, honest, caring, and competent

Question 41

Every state’s regulating agency for the Nurse Practace Act. ​

Answer 41

State Boards of Nursing

Question 42

Person in History who worked in the Crimean War and is known as the Founder of Modern Nursing

Answer 42

Florence Nightengale

Question 43

The terminal degree needed for becoming a clinical nurse specialist, nurse anesthetist or nurse midwife

Answer 43

Master’s Degree in Nursing​

Question 44

Was considered the “angel of the battlefield”. ​

Answer 44

Clara Barton​

Question 45

HOSA and NFLPN are examples of what? ​

Answer 45

Professional Nurse Organizations for LPNs/LVNs​

Question 46

Using skillful reasoning and logical thoughts (thinking purposefully) to determine the merits of a belief or action. ​

Answer 46

critical thinking

Question 47

Document completed in the event of an accident or unusual event​

Answer 47

an Incident Report (Occurrence Report, Variance Report)​

Question 48

To stand up for that which is in the client’s best interest. ​

Answer 48

Advocate

Question 49

One nurse is responsible for all aspects of care for their assigned client​

Answer 49

Primary Care Nursing

Question 50

A state and federally funded public health insurance program​

Answer 50

Medicaid​

Question 51

A problem solving approach that uses the best evidence from nursing research studies, patient care data, and patient’s preferences and values. ​

Answer 51

Evidence Based Practice (EBP)​

Question 52

Known as a 3 year hospital based nursing program

Answer 52

Diploma Nursing Program

Question 53

This law includes limitations and allowances of what a nurse can do.​

Answer 53

Scope of Practice

Question 54

The law that governs nursing actions at each level of nursing

Answer 54

Nurse Practice Act