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Accountability

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Accepting responsibility for actions, legal ethical and professional implications

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Advocacy

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Supporting and working on behalf of patients or people for whom they have concern

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Against medical advice

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To prevent health care providers an institutions from being held liable is a patient chooses to leave the hospital

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Altruism

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A professions provides services needed by society. Public service over personal gain

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ANA

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Designed 5 specific steps for the nursing process; assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation

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Assault

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Is a threat of bodily harm or violence caused by a demonstration of force

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Autocratic leadership

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Exercises strong control

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Autonomy

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Make independent decisions based on their scope of practice

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Battery

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Actual physical harm to another person

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First order beliefs

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Serve as a foundation. Begins in early childhood through experience and from information shared by authority figures

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Higher order beliefs

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Derived from first order beliefs. Inductive or deductive reasoning. Formation of generalizations to relate new information to what is known

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Beneficence

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Is an obligation to do good by acting in ways that promote the best interest in potters

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Novice level of nursing

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No previous experience, adherence to taught rules or plans

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Advanced beginner level of nursing

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Uses more sophisticated rules based on limited experience, analytical decision making

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Competent level of nursing

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2-3 years of working. Lacks speed and flexibility

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Proficient level of nursing

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Uses experiences to make decisions, sees what is important

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Expert level of nursing

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No longer relies on rules, vision of what is possible

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Bureaucratic leadership

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Uses rules to guide employees

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Caregiver roles

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Have the ability to care, adapt to situations, good listener, show affection, being responsible, strong,

Spousal, children, grandparents, and parents

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Caregiver stress

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Affects the body at genetic and molecular level.

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Civil law

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Governs unjust acts. Against individuals, rather than federal or state crimes

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Clinical performance expectations

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Use research findings in practice

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Code of ethics

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The standard of right and wrong behavior. The ICN and ANA developed the nursing code of ethics

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Code of ethics for nurses

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Having concern or regard for that which affects the welfare of another

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Codependency
Dysfunctional relationship where one of them is hurt by their actions
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Collaboration
The process by which two or more people work together toward a common goal
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Computer ethics
Thou shalt not use computer to harm another, interfere, snoop, steal, bear false witness, use a software that wasn’t paid for
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Consent for
Informed consent is permission granted by a patient after talking to physician
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Consolidated omnibus budget reconciliation act
Emergency medical treatment and active labor act
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Criminal intent
HIPAA violators include federal prison penalties and fines up to 250,000
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Critical thinking
Framework for reflection on judgments and actions that result in positive outcomes, increasing accuracy of critical thinking
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Cultural competence
Bringing health care providers together to discuss health concerns when cultural differences are present
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Culturally competent care
Forming practice around health beliefs, practices and cultural linguistic needs of diverse patients
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Customs
Social expectations
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Delegation
Process of entrusting or transferring work to another individual while still being held accountable
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Democratic. Leadership
Involves followers in decision making
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Descriptive leadership
Identifies data and characteristics about a population or phenomenon
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Durable power of attorney
Allows a designated person to make legal decision on the behalf of another
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Emergency medical treatment and active labor act
Requires hospitals to take care of patients even if their insurance will not cover it
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End of life issues
Advance directives, what the patient wanted based on directives
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Ethnicity
Persons identification with or membership in a racial, National, or cultural group
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Experimental research
Explores the causal relationship between variables
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Felony
Resulting in prison for more than a 1
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Fidelity
Keeping promises or agreements
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Florence nightingale
Puts the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon
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4 D’s of negligence
Duty Dereliction Damages Direct cause
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HIPAA
Security and patient privacy act
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Incivility
Loss of sleep, increased stress and depression, feelings of powerlessness, deceased confidence
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Inference
Making a prediction
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Information processing
Detect relationships among stimuli,
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Intentional tort
Wrongs committed by individuals who deliberately seek to injure or hurt another
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Interpretation
Examining how information is organized and giving meaning guides
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Intuition
Feeling that you know something without specific evidence
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Invasion of privacy
Public disclosure of private information
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Just culture
Explicit value of reporting errors without punishment
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Justice
Treating people fairly
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Liability
Adherence to principles for delegation established by the ANA,a Dan accurate and timely documentation
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Libel
Written forms of defamation of character
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Living will
Specifies the treatment a person wants to recieve when he or she is unconscious
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Magnet hospital guidelines
Quality of nursing leadership, organizational structure, management style, personal policies, professional models of care, quality of care, quality improvement, consultation and resources, autonomy, community and health care organization
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Malpractice
Negligence committed by a person functioning ina professional role
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Near miss
An error or commission that could have harmed someone but didn’t
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Negligence
Creating a risk of harm to others by failing to do something
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Never event
Events that should never occur in health care | Apologize, report, cause alanysis, make policy available to patient
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Nonmaleficience
Avoid harm to others
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Nursing process
ADPIE
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Patient self determination act
Supply all the patients with their rights and medical decision
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PICO
Patient, problem, population Intervention Comparison Outcome
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Prejudice
Devaluing an entire group
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Professional boundaries
Engaging in personal relationship, keeping secret with the patient, spending large amts of time with pt, acting as a family member, sexual involvement
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Qualitative research
Words, feelings
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Quantitative
Numbers, data
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Quasi-experimental
Causal relationships. No randomization or control
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Reason to study nursing theory
Group of concepts that can be tested in practice and can be derived from a conceptual framework
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SBAR
Situation, background, assessment, recommendation
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Sentinel event
Unexpected event involving death or serious physical or psychological injury or the risk for injury
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Situational leadership
Changes based on the setting
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Slander
Oral defamation of character
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Standard of nursing character
Minimum requirements for providing safe nursing care
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Standardized process in profession of nursing
Code of ethics, licensing, body of knowledge, educational preparation, altruism
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State board of nursing
Creates rules and regulations regarding education and training within the state
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Stereotype
Is a conceptualized depiction of a person, group, or event that is thought to be typical of all others in that category
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Swansons theory
Knowing, being with, doing for, enabling, maintaining belief
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Knowing
``` Avoiding assumptions Focusing on patient Assessment Seeking cues Engaging the self of both ```
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Being with
Being there Conveying ability Sharing feelings Not burdening
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Doing for
``` Comforting Anticipating Performing skillfully Protecting Preserving divinity ```
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Enabling
``` Informing Supporting Focusing Generating Validating ```
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Maintaining belief
Believing in esteem Hope filled attitude Offering realistic. Optimism Going the distance
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Tell-health
The linking of medical professionals through a computer
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Transactional leadership
Reward and punishment
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Transformational
Employ methods that inspire people to follow their lead
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Unintentional tort
Omissions or acts that cause unintended harm
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Values
Based on personal experience
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Veracity
Principle of truth telling

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