Scope of Practice Flashcards
Care that is provided to patients to promote wellness and prevent disease from occurring. This includes health promotion, education, protection (such as immunizations), early disease screening, and environmental considerations.
Primary
A precise and detailed written plan for a regimen of therapy.
Protocol
Care that can be performed following a defined nursing procedure with minimal modification in which the responses of the patient to the nursing care are predictable.
Basic nursing care
A culture established within healthcare agencies that empowers nurses, nursing students and other staff members to speak up about risks to patients and to report errors and near misses, all of which drive improvement in patient care and reduce the incident of patient harm.
Safety culture
Legislation enacted by each state that establishes regulations for nursing practice within that state by defining the requirements for licensure as well as the scope of nursing practice.
Nursing Practice Act (NPA)
An RN who has a graduate degree and advanced knowledge. There are four categories: certified nurse-midwife (CNM), clinical nurse specialist (CNS), certified nurse practitioner (CNP), or certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA). These nurses can diagnose illnesses and prescribe treatments and medications.
Advanced Practice Nurse (APRN)
A hierarchy of reporting relationships in an agency that establishes accountability and lays out lines of authority and decision-making power.
Chain of command
“Personal values, character, or conduct of individuals within communities and societies.”
Morality
A code that applies normative, moral guidance for nurses in terms of what they ought to do, be, and seek.
Code of ethics
Standards that describe a competent level of behavior in the professional role of the nurse including activities related to ethics, culturally congruent practice, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, evidence-based practice and research, quality of practice, professional practice evaluation, resource utilization, and environmental health.
ANA Standards of Professional Performance
An individual who has completed a state-approved practical or vocational nursing program, passed the NCLEX-PN examination, and is licensed by a state board of nursing to provide patient care.
LPN/LVN
A type of care that deals with the long-term effects from chronic illness or condition, with the purpose to restore physical and mental function that may have been lost. The goal is to achieve the highest level of functioning possible with this chronic illness.
Tertiary Care
Care that occurs when a person has contracted an illness or injury and is in need of medical care.
Secondary Care
Impaired Swallowing
Dysphagia
The impaired ability to form words and speak.
Expressive aphasia
A physician, podiatrist, dentist, optometrist, or advanced practice nurse provider.
Provider
A “specific term that looks at a standard of care, as well as the professional status of the caregiver.”
Malpractice
Authoritative statements of the duties that all registered nurses, regardless of role, population, or specialty, are expected to perform competently.
ANA Standards of Professional Nursing Practice
Allows a nurse to have one multistate license with the ability to practice in the home state and other compact states.
Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC)
Keeping your patient’s Protected Health Information (PHI) protected and known only by those health care team members directly providing care for the patient.
Patient confidentiality
A “general term that denotes conduct lacking in due care, carelessness; and a deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would use in a particular set of circumstances.”
Negligence
“Any unlicensed person, regardless of title, who performs tasks delegated by a nurse. This includes certified nursing aides/assistants (CNAs), patient care assistants (PCAs), patient care technicians (PCTs), state tested nursing assistants (STNAs), nursing assistants-registered (NA/Rs) or certified medication aides/assistants (MA-Cs). Certification of UAPs varies between jurisdictions.”
Unlicensed Assistive Personnel
“Services that a qualified health professional is deemed competent to perform, and permitted to undertake – in keeping with the terms of their professional license.”
Scope of practice
The state-specific licensing and regulatory body that sets the standards for safe nursing care, decides the scope of practice for nurses within its jurisdiction, and issues licenses to qualified candidates.
Board of Nursing
