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Autonomy

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the right to self-determination - to choose and act on that choice (every competent person has the right to decide their own choices)

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Breach of Duty

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occurs when a nurse does or does not do, what a reasonable nurse would have done under the same, or similar circumstances

*Nurse’s care fell before the acceptable standard of care

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Causation

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Must clearly show the connection between the nurse’s action or omission and the resulting injury to the patient

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Assault

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Occurs when a nurse intentionally places a patient in immediate fear of personal violence or offensive contact

*Verbal, must include words expressing an intention to cause harm and some type of action

Ex: If you keep acting like that, I’m gonna restrain you

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Battery

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Physical contact/touch (hitting/pushing)
-Committed when an offensive or harmful physical contact is made to the client without his consent, or there is unauthorized touching of a person’s body by another person

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False Imprisonment

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The restricting of a person without proper legal authorization (includes any type of unjustified restriction on a person’s freedom or movement

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What do all religions have in common?

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Theology
-Discussions and theories related to God and God’s relation to the world

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What are the core issues of Spirituality?

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-Faith (lets us trust & be optimistic, gives us purpose in life, allows us to experience sense of self; Ex- putting faith in God to get you through chemo)
-Hope (basic need to achieve, create, & shape our lives; Ex - cling to hope with cancer diagnosis)
-Love (seen through kindness, patience, endurance, and truthfulness

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What are barriers to spiritual care?

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-Lack of general awareness of spirituality
-Lack of awareness of your own spiritual beliefs
-Differences in spirituality between nurse and pt
-Fear that your knowledge is insufficient
-Fear of where spiritual discussions will lead

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What is the standardized spiritual assessment?

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FICA

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What does FICA stand for?

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F- Faiths or beliefs (what are yours?)
I- Importance and Influence
C- Community (spiritual support)
A- Address (is there something nurse can do in regards to spirituality)

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Grief

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Internal process a person works through due to a loss

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Loss

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Actual or potential situation in which someone or something is no longer present or available to a person (at every stage of life)

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Bereavement

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Form of depression accompanied by anxiety in response to loss of loved one

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Mourning

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Actions and expressions of bereavement including rituals, symbols, and acions

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What is an actual loss?

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Can be identified by others, not just the person experiencing it
*Can SEE you lost something

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What is a perceived loss?

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Only identified by the person experiencing it (internal)
*Only person who perceives as loss is the person experiencing it

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External Loss

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Actual loss of objects that are important to the person
-Theft
-Destruction
-Disasters (floor or fire)

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What is an Internal Loss

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Another term for perceived or physcological losses

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Physical loss

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-Injuries (amputation)
-Removal of an organ
-Loss of function (mobility, bladder function)

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Psychological loss

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Perceived loss, challenges our belief system
Commonly seen in:
-Sexuality
-Control
-Fairness
-Meaning
-Trust

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Uncomplicated (Normal/Functioning) Grieving

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(What we want people to go through)
-Natural response to a loss
-Person may experience a range of feelings, but it decreases over time

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Complicated (Dysfunctional) Grieving

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-Maladaptive, usually prolonged or overwhelming
-May become suicidal, workaholic, socially isolated, or demonstrate addictive behaviors

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Chronic grieving

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Begins as normal, but continues as long term with little resolution (inability to join normal life)

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Masked Grieving

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Person is grieving, but expressing it through other types of behaviors

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Delayed grieving

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Putting off grieving for periods of time

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Disenfranchised grieving

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You have a connect with the loss that is not socially supported or acknowledged by the usual rites of ceremonies

*Ex: Mistress, children ripped from home (can’t go through normal grieving process)

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Anticipatory grieving

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-You are experiencing a loss before it occurs

*May be emotionally unavailable to the dying person

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What factors influence grief?

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-Significance of the loss
-Support system
-Unresolved conflict
-Circumstances of the loss
-Previous loss
-Spiritual care/beliefs and practices
-Timeless of the Death –> Child vs elderly (a lot of life left to live vs got to live a good life)

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True or False:
90% of people die in expected pattern

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True

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True or False:
Physiological stages of dying are the exact same for every person

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False, they can have similarities, but are still unique to every person

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What are the physiological stages of dying 1-3 months before death

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-Client begins to withdraw
-Sleep increases
-Difficult to digest food, liquids preferred

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What are the physiological stages of dying 1-2 weeks before death

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-Reduces BP, changes in pulse, skin color turns paler
-RR may increase or decrease, apnea with sleep
-Congestion - rattling sounding cough

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What are the physiological stages of dying days to hours before death?

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-Surge of energy
-Mental clarity
-Desire to eat
-Talk with family members
-Difficulty swallowing
-Decreased BV, dehydrated
-Gag reflex declines
-Secretions accumulate
-Mucous membranes dry and tacky
-Lips cracked
-Respirations shallow, irregular
-Peripheral circulation decreases, increased perspiration, extremities are cooled, BP decreases, pulse hard to find
-Peristalsis slows, urine output decreases
-Muscles relax, droopy face
-Vision blurs
-Restless and agitated

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What are the physiological stages of dying moments before death?

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-No response to touch or sound
-Cannot be awakened
-Short series of long spaced breaths before breathing ceases entirely and heart stops beating

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What are the 7 stages of grief?

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-Shock
-Denial
-Anger
-Bargaining
-Depression
-Testing
-Acceptance

*DABDA
(Shock and testing were added)

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What are legal and ethical issues regarding death in health care?

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-ADs
-Living will
-Durable Power of attorney (Healthcare Proxy)
-DNR
-Assisted suicide
-Euthanasia
-Autopsy
-Organ donation

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Post-Mortem:
Why do you elevate HOB ASAP?

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To prevent discoloration of face

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True or False: Post-Mortem
You leave dentures in pts mouth

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True: helps to keep their face shape

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Spirituality

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A journey that takes place over time and involves the accumulation of life experiences and understanding
*Attempt to finding meaning in life

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What was the history of spirituality in the Pre-Christian era

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-Caring for sick was an expression of hospitality/charity
-Praying to the God(s) for healing

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What is the history of spirituality in the early Christian era

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-Jesus Christ’s primary teaching
-Caring for the sick was honored and respected
-Gradually combined health arts with religious care

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What is the history of spirituality in the Post-Reformation period in Europe

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-Nursing orders flourished
-Nightingale –> spirituality was the heart of human nature and fundamental to healing
-Bringing comfort and relief to the sick and dying - Lady with the Lamp

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Religion

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“The map you take to get to a certain destination”
Involves:
-Beliefs
-Values
-Rituals
-Code of Conduct and Ethics

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Morals

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-Learned from external influences and communicated through various systems
-Good or bad/ right and wrong

-Ex: Treat others the way you want to be treated

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Moral behavior

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Consistent with customs or traditions based on external influences (religious beliefs)

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Immoral behavior

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A person whose behavior is inconsistent with traditional notions (inconsistent with right and wrong)

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Ethics

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The study of more principles and standards, or the process of using them to decide your conduct and actions
-What is right or wrong?
-What actions should be taken in certain circumstances?

*Just because something is accepted does not mean it is ethical

Ex: Is it wrong to steal if I need to feed someone?
-Should we turn off the ventilator on pt?
-Should baby go through surgery even if they will not have a good quality life?

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What Ethical Principle is used for ethical decision making?

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MORAL Model

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Bioethics

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the application of ethical principles to every aspect of healthcare

Ex: Direct care of pts, allocation of resources, utilization of staff, medical/nursing research

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What does the MORAL Model stand for?

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M- Massage the Dilemma
O- Outline the Options
R- Resolve the Dilemma
A- Act by Applying the Chosen Option
L- Look back and evaluate

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When does moral outrage occur?

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When we perceive others acting immorally, it makes us feel powerless

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When does moral distress occur?

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When we can’t act as moral agents, when we are prevented from acting on our moral decisions

*Ex: Growing up believing abortion is wrong, but caring for a pt who needs one

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Human Dignity

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Respect for the inherent worth and uniqueness of individuals and populations (provide it by being considerate, believing them, advocating, privacy, and confidentiality)

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Informed consent

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The right of competent pts to decide whether to agree to a treatment (pt needs to know alternative treatment options, the risks and benefits, treatment info, and provider)

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Nonmaleficence

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Do no harm AND prevent harm
-Does this treatment cause more harm than good?

57
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Beneficence

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The duty to do good or promote good
-Prevent harm when you can
-Remove harm
-Do no harm

58
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Fidelity

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Faithfulness; the duty to keep promises
-The same regardless of level of importance

59
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Veracity

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The duty to tell the truth
-Be culturally sensitive
-Consider the context

60
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Justice

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The obligation to be fair
-Could be allocating time or resources

61
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Professional Code of Ethics

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Formal group expectations and standards for professional behavior of the profession

*Not legally binding

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International Council of Nurses

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A guide for action on social values and needs, nursing standards worldwide

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American Nurses Association

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Establishes the ethical standards for the profession, guide fro nurses in ethical analysis and decision making

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The Patient Care Partnership

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Entitles patients to rights:
-Maker their own decisions
-Be active partners in their treatment
-Be treated with dignity and respect

65
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The Joint Commission Accreditation Standards

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Organizational ethics and individual rights, requires ethics in care, treatment, services, and business

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Value

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A belief about the worth of something
-Behaviors, feelings, knowledge, or decisions, goals, models of conduct, ideas, beliefs (changes around people and experiences you have)

You can value
-An idea
-A person
-A way of doing things
-An object

67
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Value neutrality

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To understand our own values regarding an issue and be able to become nonjudgmental when providing care to clients

Ex: having a family member who had passed away from an opioid addiction & caring for a patient with an opioid addiction

68
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True or False:
Nursing students can for values through education and clinical

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True

69
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Moralizing

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Authoritarian approach “this way is the only way”; unable to make independent choices

70
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Laissez-faire

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Explore set of values with little guidance “doing your own thing” or discipline

71
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Responsible choice

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A balance of freedom and restrictions allows them to explore new behaviors and experience the consequences

72
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Value Clarification

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The process of becoming conscious of an naming one’s values
-Allows you to make good decisions and to avoid imposing your views on others
-Positive process of growth that results in awareness, empathy, and insight
-May be done multiple times throughout lifespan as values change

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Attitudes

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Mental dispositions or feelings toward a person, object, or idea
-Our way of responding to situations or things
-Can be positive or negative

74
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Beliefs

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Something that one accepts as true
-Can be based on faith or facts
-Can be true or false
-Altered based on acquired knowledge and experiences

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ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses

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Focus on the collaboration of healthcare professionals and the community to protect human rights and reduce health disparities

76
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American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) values

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-Altruism
-Integrity
-Social Justice

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Altruism

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Concern for the welfare and well-being of others (Key of nursing- What do we care about? The well-being of our pts)

78
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Integrity

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Acting in accordance with an appropriate code of ethics and accepted standards of practice (honesty)

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Social Justice

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Upholding moral, legal, and humanistic principles; treating others fairly regardless of age, race, citizenship, economic status, disability, or sexual orientation (equality)

80
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Liability

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The person financially or legally responsible for something
-Nurses are legally responsible for their actions –> The nurses owed a “duty of care” and they “breached” that duty
-Cannot be delegated

80
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True or False:
Negligence is not a type of malpractice

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False, negligence is a type of malpractice

80
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Malpractice

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-Professional person failed to act in a reasonable manner
-If someone is injured, professional may be held accountable

80
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When does Malpractice occur?

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-Occurs when a hospital, doctor, or healthcare professional causes injury to a patient through a negligent act or omission

*Could be a result of errors in diagnosis, treatment, aftercare or health management

*Pt must prove that negligence caused injury

81
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What is needed to prove that medical malpractice occured?

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1) A doctor - pt relationship existed
2) The doctor was negligent
3) Negligence caused injury
4) Injury led to specific damages
5) Failure to diagnose
6) Improper treatment
7) Failure to warn a patient of known risks

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Negligence

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The failure to use ordinary or reasonable care or the failure to act in a reasonable and prudent (careful) manner

Ex: As a nursing instructor, I don’t verify you are capable of doing a skill before allowing you to proceed with it

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Abandonment

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When a nurse deserts or neglects a patient with whom they have established a provider-pt relationship without making reasonable arrangements for the continuation of care and without reasonable notice

*Not “I’m sick and the hospital could not find staff to cover me”

*Have to be on shift, walk in, something happens, and you leave your floor and do not come back

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What is the Bill of Rights?

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-First 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
-Identifies and limits the role of government in individuals’ lives
-Direct implication in healthcare (Includes rights of nurses and pts, helps with privacy of pts like HIPPA)

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HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Ace- 1996)

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-Protect health insurance benefits for workers who lose or change their job
-Protect coverage to persons with preexisting medical conditions
-**Establish standards to protect the privacy of personal health information (confidentiality)

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Patient Self-Determination Act 1991

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Recognizes the client’s right to make decisions regarding his or her own healthcare
-Document presence/absence of AD, provide education of ADs, follow state laws regarding ADs, treat everyone the same

87
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True or False:
In emergency situations, we still need to get informed consent

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False- we can skip (especially if they cannot find a representative to ask)

88
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Durable Power of Attorney (DPOA)

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-Identifies a person who will make healthcare decisions in the event the pt is unable to do so
-With POA, they are only making decisions if pt is unable to do so

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Advances Directive (AD)

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Written or oral instructions that explain specific wants by a person regarding their end of life care if they were incapacitated or unable to express their desires

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Living Will

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A written document that provides specific instructions about what a person wants

Ex: “I don’t want these to occur… NG tubes, intubation, ICU Care”

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DNR

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Specific physician order, signed by the physician, starting not to compete any type of life supporting measures (CPR)

92
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Assisted Suicide

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Anyone making something available that allows for the person to end their life

93
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Physician Assisted Suicide

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When a physician makes pharmacological medication available to a person specifically to end their life

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Euthanasia

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The deliberate ending of someone’s life from a terminal or incurable illness

Ex: We euthanize animals all the time

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Autopsy

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The medical examination of a body to determine cause of death

*Only done on specific people (trauma, abuse, recent surgery, in restraints)

96
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Organ donation

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Donation of the tissue, organs and/or skin

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Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)

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Requires healthcare facilities to provide emergency medical treatment to patients who seek healthcare in the emergency department, regardless of their ability to pay, legal status, or citizenship status

-Screening can be used to determine emergency

Ex: If you are having a heart attack or are a gunshot victim, hospital must stabilize you before transferring you

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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) 1990

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-Protections against discrimination of individuals with disabilities
-Under ADA, employers are requires to make reasonable accommodations in order for a disable person to perform their job

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Mandatory Reporting

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A legal requirement in state statue or regulation for nurses to report an occurrence or individual, including another nurse, when the public is at risk (even if it is a violation of HIPPA, we have to report it)

Ex: Nurses with substance abuse, any vulnerable population abuse or neglect, any communicable diseases like HIV, gonorrhea, syphilis)

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Good Samaritan Act

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Offer legal protection to people who give reasonable assistance to those who are, or whom they believe to be injured in peril or otherwise incapacitated

Ex: If you stop at a car accident and make a silly decision that accidentally causes harm, you are not legally liable

101
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Nursing Practice Act

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-Regulate nursing practice to protect the health, safety, and welfare or the general public
-Define the scope of nursing practice
-Approve programs providing licensure nursing education to students

102
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Medical malpractice statues

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A lawsuit brought against a healthcare provider for damages when there has been death of, injury to, or other loss to the person being treated

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Criminal Law

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Wrongs or offenses against society; violation of a law; laws vary state to state

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Felony

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Crime punishable by more than 1 year in jail (ex: Murder, suicide, rape/sexual assault, stealing drugs and equipment)
-May lose licensure (most of the time), right to vote, hold public office, possess firearms

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Misdemeanor

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Less than a year in jail (Ex: assault, battery, petty theft)
-May lose licensure
-Does not have to be nursing related crimes – DUIs, punching someone in a bar, etc

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Tort Law

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Wrongs done to one person by another person that do not involve contracts
-Classified as quasi-intentional torts, intentional torts, or unintentional torts

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Unintentional Tort

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negligence or malpractice

108
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Quasi-Intentional Tort

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Defamation of Character
-Libel: written or published form of defamation of character (physical)
-Slander: verbal form of defamation of character (words)

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Fraud

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False statements, falsifying documents, concealing information that should have been disclosed

110
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Florence Nightingale (1860)

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Focused on cleanliness and the environment

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Peplau

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Theory of Interpersonal Relations
-You need to have communication with your pts

112
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Virginia Henderson (1955)

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Nursing Need Theory (14 needs)
-Created because she had 14 needs

113
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Dorothy Johnson (1968)

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Behavioral System Model
-Focused on behavior function

114
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Dorothea Orem (1971)

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You need to be able to fulfill biological, psychological, developmental, or social needs to be healthy

115
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Imogene King (1971)

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Patient Environment and nurse-pt relationship is part of the nurse for meeting goals towards good health

116
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Betty Neuman (1972)

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Reduce stress of patient

117
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Sr. Callista Roy (1979)

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Viewed individual as a set of interrelated systems who strives to maintain the balance between these various stimuli

118
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Jean Watson (1979)

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Caring Theory
-You need to be caring and humanistic

119
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Assumptions

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Ideas that we take for granted - Concepts or statements that are presumed to be true, don’t plan to test them

120
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Phenomena

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Aspects of reality that you can observe - Subject matter, what makes them unique

121
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Concepts

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Mental image or symbol of phenomenon - form these through observation or experiences; use them to find similarities, differences, organize, and categorize; can do this from simple to complex or from concrete to abstract

Ex: Mental image of what I believe everyone is going through

122
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Theoretical definition

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Pain is an unpleasant experience associated with potential tissue damage

123
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Operational definition

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Specifies what you deserve (pain is the pts verbal statement that he is in pain)

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Paradigm

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The world view or ideology of a discipline (how we see things) –> Our broadest cinceptual framework

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What are the 4 major concepts frequently interrelated and fundamental to nursing?

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Person
Health
Environment
Nursing

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Nursing Paradigm

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Looks at the entire person
-Look at physical, psychological, spiritual, and social health changes

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Medical Paradigm

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Focuses on identifying and treating disease

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True or False:
Doctors treat, nurses care

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True

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Are Grand Nursing Theories Broad of Narrow?

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Broad

Ex: Everybody should care and everybody should be clean

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What are Mid Range Theories?

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Narrower and more specific than Grand Nursing Theories
-Help design our educational programs, help with protocols and procedures in the hospital

(Teach us how to care and clean)

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Practice theories

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Most specific, focus on a specific situation; used for goals and outcomes

Ex: Only focus on CHF pts

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Inductive Reasoning

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(What we typically do)
-Go from specific to general
-Gather separate pieces on info, recognize a pattern, and form a generalization about the pt

*I have data, now I need to conclude what the problem is

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Deductive reasoning

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-Goes from general to specific

Ex: You receive a call from the ER that you will be receiving a new pt with a kidney infection, you know that pt may arrive with possible symptoms

*I see the problem, now I need to gather data to support the problem

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Quantitative

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-Gather objective data (labs, vitals, etc)
-Surveys, census, chart audit
-Yes or no questions
-Reported as #s
-Generalize the results to a similar population

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Qualitative

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-Subjective data from a small # of subjects
-Open-ended interviews, may perform observations or complete written questionnaires
-Identifies themes
-Research is about sharing the “lived experience”

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What are barriers to Research for Nurses

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-Hesitancy to change nursing practice
-Lack of knowledge or nursing research
-Negative attitudes towards research
-Lack of support from the employing institution
-Study findings that are not ready for the clinical environment

Nursing Fall 2023 (7 decks)

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