Saunders Unit II Issues in Nursing Flashcards
Accountability
Moral concept that involves acceptance by a professional nurse of the consequences of a decision or action.
Acculturation
Process of learning norms, beliefs, and behavioural expectations of a group other than one’s own group.
Advance directives
Written document recognized by state law that provides directions concerning the provision of care when a client is unable to make his/her own treatment choices.
The two basic types of advance directives include…
an instructional living will and durable power of attorney for health care.
Advocacy
Acting on behalf of the client and protecting the client’s right to make his/her own decisions.
Client’s Bill of Rights
The rights and responsibilities of clients receiving care.
Confidentiality/information security
in the health care system, refers to the protection of privacy of the client’s personal health information.
Consent
voluntary act whereby a person agrees to allow someone else to do something.
Cultural Assimilation
Process in which individuals from a minority group are absorbed by the dominant culture and take on the characteristics of the dominant culture.
Cultural competence
Acquisition of knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of a culture that facilitates provision of culturally appropriate health care.
Cultural diversity
Differences among groups of people that result from ethnic, racial and cultural variables.
Cultural imposition
Tendency to impose one’s beliefs, values, and patterns of behaviour on individuals from another culture.
Culture
The knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behaviour, ideas, attitudes, values, and norms that are unique to a particular group of people.
Delegation
Process of transferring a selected nursing task in a situation to an individual who is competent to perform that specific task.
Disaster
Any human-made or natural event that causes destruction and devastation that cannot be alleviated without assistance; internal disasters are events that occur within a health care agency, whereas external disasters are events that occur outside the health care agency.