SAS#2

Question 1

Guiding behavioral principles

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ETHICS

Question 2

Societal behavior standards

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ETHICAL

Question 3

Promulgated the deontological notion of the golden rule

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IMMANUEL KANT

Question 4

Who purported a teleological approach

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JOHN STUART MILL

Question 5

Approach allows at the sacrifice of one or more individuals so that a group of people can benefit in some important way

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TEOLOGICAL OR UTILITARIAN

Question 6

Refers to an internal value system

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MORAL

Question 7

Is expressed externally through ethical behavior

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MORALITY

Question 8

Documents that define a profession, describes the professions scope of practice and provide guidelines for stay professional board of nursing regarding standard for practice, and to protect the professional title

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PRACTICED ACTS

Question 9

refer to rules governing behavior or conduct that are enforceable under threat or punishment or penalty such as a fine or imprisonment or both

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LEGAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES

Question 10

Deal with intangible moral values, so they are not enforceable by law, nor are these principles lost in and of themselves

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ETHICAL PRINCIPLES

Question 11

Moral conflict

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ETHICAL DILEMMAS

Question 12

The right to full disclosure; the right to make one’s own decisions

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INFORMED CONSENT

Question 13

The right to protect one’s own body and to determine how it shall be treated

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RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION

Question 14

Which is a basic tenant of ethical thought, what is stablish in the court as early as 1914 by justice benjamin cardoso

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INFORMED CONSENT

Question 15

Refers to the right of self-determination.
Laws have been enacted to protect the patient’s right to make choices independently

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AUTONOMY

Question 16

Requires either at the time of hospital admission or prior to the initiation of care or treatment in a community health setting
“ that every individual receiving health care be informed in writing of the right under state law to make decisions about his or her health care including the right to refuse medical and surgical care and the right to initiate advance”

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PATIENCE OF DETERMINATION ACT (PSDA)

Question 17

Truth telling
An individual has the fundamental right make decisions about his or her own body
this ruling provided a basis in law for patient education or instruction regarding invasive medical procedures including the truth regarding risk or benefits involved in these procedures

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VERACITY

Question 18

Which refers to the capacity of the patient to make a reasonable decision

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COMPETENCE

Question 19

which requires that sufficient information regarding risk and alternative treatments be provided to the patient to enable him or her to make a rational decision

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DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

Question 20

Which is speaks to the individual’s ability to understand or to grasp intellectually the information being provided

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COMPREHENSION

Question 21

Which indicates that the patient has made a decision without coercion or force from others

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VOLUNTARINESS

Question 22

A final dimension of the legality of truth telling relate the role of the nurse as

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EXPERT WITNESS

Question 23

The one who initiate the litigation

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PLAINTIFF

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The one being sued

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DEFENDANT

Question 25

Regardless of the situation the nurse must __________ and the client (or his or her health proxy) is

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1. ALWAYS TELL THE TRUTH 2. ALWAYS ENTITLED TO THE TRUTH

Question 26

Refers to personal information that is entrusted and protected as privileged information via a social contact healthcare standard or code or legal covenant

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CONFIDENTIALITY

Question 27

Despite its communicability, the person with a diagnosis of aids is protected by laws promulgated by federal and state governments. Within this context, aids is considered to be

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PRIVATE INFORMATION

Question 28

Aids is further considered to be _________. Such information is "owned" by the patient alone and is subject to disclosure only at his or her individual discretion. Once this information is shared between the nurse and the client, it cannot be shared with other health professionals unless authorized by the patient.

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PRIVILEGED INFORMATION

Question 29

Diagnosis of aids is also protected by law as ________. Thus anyone not involved in a client's care has no right to private or privileged information regarding the healthy status of the client

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CONFIDENTIAL

Question 30

Is defined as "do not harm" and refers to the ethics of legal determinations involving negligence and/or malpractice

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NONMALEFICENCE

Question 31

Defined as "conduct which falls below the standard established by law for the protection of others against unreasonable risk of harm"

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NEGLIGENCE

Question 32

Involves the conduct of professionals that falls below a professional standard of due care

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PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE

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the kind of care healthcare professionals give patients when they treat them attentively and vigilantly so that to avoid mistakes

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DUE CARE

Question 34

refers to limited class of negligent activities committed within the scope of performance by those pursuing a particular profession involving highly skilled and technical services. Has been is specifically defined as negligence, misconduct or breach of duty by a professional person that results in the injury or damage to the patient

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MALPRACTICE

Question 35

Malpractice usually arises because of the following

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FAILURE TO FOLLOW STANDARDS OF CARE FAILURE TO USE EQUIPMENT IN A RESPONSIBLE MANNER FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE FAILURE TO DOCUMENT FAILURE TO ASSESS AND MONITOR FAILURE TO ACT AS PATIENT ADVOCATE FAILURE TO DELEGATE TASK PROPERLY

Question 36

Is defined as "doing good" for the benefit of others it is a concept that is legalized through adherents to critical task and duties contained in job descriptions; in policies, established and promulgated by professional nursing organizations

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BENEFICENCE

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Speaks to fairness and equal distribution of goods and services The law in the "justice system"

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JUSTICE

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Insurance companies, medicare and medicaid programs, or "private pay"

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THIRD PARTY REIMBURSEMENT

Question 39

the employer may be held liable for the negligence or other unlawful acts of the employee during the performance of his or her job related responsibilities

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RESPONDEAT SUPERIOR

Question 40

Those that are tangible and predictable such as rent food eating etc.

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DIRECT COSTS

Question 41

Those that are stable and ongoing such as salaries mortgage utilities durable equipment etc.

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FIXED COSTS

Question 42

Those related to fluctuation in volume, program attendance, occupancy rates etc.

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VARIABLE COSTS

Question 43

those that may be fix but not necessarily directly related to a particular activity such as expenses of heating lighting housekeeping maintenance etc.

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INDIRECT COSTS

Question 44

occurs when the institution realizes an economic gain resulting from the educational program such as a drop in readmission rates

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COST BENEFIT

Question 45

Occurs when revenues generated are equal to or greater than expenditures

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COST RECOVERY

Question 46

Income earned that is above the cost of the programs offered

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REVENUE GENERATION

Question 47

The relationship (ratio) between actual program costs and actual program benefits as measured in monetary terms to determine if revenue generation was realized

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COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS

Question 48

Refers to determining the economic value of an educational offering by making a comparison between two or more programs, based on reliable measures of positive changes in the behaviors of participants as well as evidence of maintenance of these behaviors, when a real monetary value cannot be assigned to the achievement of program outcomes

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COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS