Nurs 120 Exam #1 chapter 1-4 Flashcards
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.
Concept Map
Telling an acquaintance about a mutual friend who is hospitalized for a sexually transmitted disease is a violation of this law
Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
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.
notify the responsible provider prior to completing the procedure
The action a nurse must take when they suspect a colleague is diverting client drugs for personal use.
report to nursing supervisor?
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.
Team Nursing
A client with HMO insurance must do what prior to seeing a specialist for a skin condition?
obtain a referral from their Primary Care Provider
The possible result when a nurse exhibits unprofessional conduct.
negative patient outcomes.
An entry level program for Nursing.
9 months to a year long LPN/LVN nursing program at a technical college or career technology center?
A type of intervention that requires a provider order before a nurse can implement it.
a dependent intervention?
A PES statement.
a 3 part Nursing Diagnosis
The Nursing Diagnosis determined by the RN to be appropriate for the assigned client’s care must be approved by ___________.
NANDA
A tool that is helpful in prioritizing nursing care.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs
A __________ is a uniquely nursing function that focuses on the needs of patients.
Nursing Diagnosis
An assessment procedure used by nurses to collect client information (data) for formulation of a Nursing Diagnosis
Physical Assessment
A type of subjective data provided by a family member of the client.
secondary data
Part of the Nursing Process that includes collection of subjective and objective data
Assessment
Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation (ADPIE)
Nursing Process
A voluntary agreement made by a competent patient to be treated by a healthcare provider or institution.
informed consent
Legal document owned by a health care facility that contains a client’s health information.
Patient Health Record
Statutes that are designed to protect the public and track outbreaks or occurrences of disease.
Mandatory Reporting Laws
Expected specific measurable actions by a client within a specific time frame are known as this.
Outcomes/Goals?
State agency that is tasked with administration and enforcement of the Nurse Practice Act.
State Board of Nursing
Referred to as the “healthcare privacy protector”
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
A type of law that protects an individual’s personal rights including health care issues.
civil laws
Situation where a decision must be made between two opposing alternatives when there is not an exact right or wrong answer.
Ethical Dilemma
Failure to provide the same care that another person would provide under the same circumstance.
negligence
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.
Ethics
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.
Medicaid
Delivery system that encourages the client to take control of and manage their own care.
Client-Centered Care
Includes hospital outpatient department, outpatient mental health services, cardiac rehabilitation, pulmonary rehabilitation, health departments, physicians’ offices, home health care agencies, and hospice.
outpatient facilities
Includes acute care hospital, long-term acute care hospital, skilled nursing facility, rehabilitation facility, and residential care facility.
Inpatient settings
Consists of medical staff, nursing staff, therapy staff, laboratory staff, radiology staff, ancillary staff, etc.
Health-Care Team
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.
capitation
Medical necessity and __________are the most important factors in health-care delivery and economics.
appropriate level of care
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.
Affordable Care Act
Federal Government’s health insurance program for people older than 65 years of age or those with certain disabilities or conditions.
Medicare
Project that focuses on the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed by nurses to continually improve patient care.
QSEN
Use of drugs or alcohol in ways that endanger a patient, failure to supervise nursing assistants, and Violations of the Nurse Practice Act?
Unprofessional Conduct
Opportunities for leadership, stay current on EBP, and stay current with policy
benefits of joining a professional organizations
2 of 4 characteristics of being a competent nurse
responsible, honest, caring, and competent
Every state’s regulating agency for the Nurse Practace Act.
State Boards of Nursing
Person in History who worked in the Crimean War and is known as the Founder of Modern Nursing
Florence Nightengale
The terminal degree needed for becoming a clinical nurse specialist, nurse anesthetist or nurse midwife
Master’s Degree in Nursing
Was considered the “angel of the battlefield”.
Clara Barton
HOSA and NFLPN are examples of what?
Professional Nurse Organizations for LPNs/LVNs
Using skillful reasoning and logical thoughts (thinking purposefully) to determine the merits of a belief or action.
critical thinking
Document completed in the event of an accident or unusual event
an Incident Report (Occurrence Report, Variance Report)
To stand up for that which is in the client’s best interest.
Advocate
One nurse is responsible for all aspects of care for their assigned client
Primary Care Nursing
A state and federally funded public health insurance program
Medicaid
A problem solving approach that uses the best evidence from nursing research studies, patient care data, and patient’s preferences and values.
Evidence Based Practice (EBP)
Known as a 3 year hospital based nursing program
Diploma Nursing Program
This law includes limitations and allowances of what a nurse can do.
Scope of Practice
The law that governs nursing actions at each level of nursing
Nurse Practice Act
