Study Guide Flashcards
Accountability
Accepting responsibility for actions, legal ethical and professional implications
Advocacy
Supporting and working on behalf of patients or people for whom they have concern
Against medical advice
To prevent health care providers an institutions from being held liable is a patient chooses to leave the hospital
Altruism
A professions provides services needed by society. Public service over personal gain
ANA
Designed 5 specific steps for the nursing process; assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation
Assault
Is a threat of bodily harm or violence caused by a demonstration of force
Autocratic leadership
Exercises strong control
Autonomy
Make independent decisions based on their scope of practice
Battery
Actual physical harm to another person
First order beliefs
Serve as a foundation. Begins in early childhood through experience and from information shared by authority figures
Higher order beliefs
Derived from first order beliefs. Inductive or deductive reasoning. Formation of generalizations to relate new information to what is known
Beneficence
Is an obligation to do good by acting in ways that promote the best interest in potters
Novice level of nursing
No previous experience, adherence to taught rules or plans
Advanced beginner level of nursing
Uses more sophisticated rules based on limited experience, analytical decision making
Competent level of nursing
2-3 years of working. Lacks speed and flexibility
Proficient level of nursing
Uses experiences to make decisions, sees what is important
Expert level of nursing
No longer relies on rules, vision of what is possible
Bureaucratic leadership
Uses rules to guide employees
Caregiver roles
Have the ability to care, adapt to situations, good listener, show affection, being responsible, strong,
Spousal, children, grandparents, and parents
Caregiver stress
Affects the body at genetic and molecular level.
Civil law
Governs unjust acts. Against individuals, rather than federal or state crimes
Clinical performance expectations
Use research findings in practice
Code of ethics
The standard of right and wrong behavior. The ICN and ANA developed the nursing code of ethics
Code of ethics for nurses
Having concern or regard for that which affects the welfare of another
Codependency
Dysfunctional relationship where one of them is hurt by their actions
Collaboration
The process by which two or more people work together toward a common goal
Computer ethics
Thou shalt not use computer to harm another, interfere, snoop, steal, bear false witness, use a software that wasn’t paid for
Consent for
Informed consent is permission granted by a patient after talking to physician
Consolidated omnibus budget reconciliation act
Emergency medical treatment and active labor act
Criminal intent
HIPAA violators include federal prison penalties and fines up to 250,000
Critical thinking
Framework for reflection on judgments and actions that result in positive outcomes, increasing accuracy of critical thinking
Cultural competence
Bringing health care providers together to discuss health concerns when cultural differences are present
Culturally competent care
Forming practice around health beliefs, practices and cultural linguistic needs of diverse patients
Customs
Social expectations
Delegation
Process of entrusting or transferring work to another individual while still being held accountable
Democratic. Leadership
Involves followers in decision making
Descriptive leadership
Identifies data and characteristics about a population or phenomenon
Durable power of attorney
Allows a designated person to make legal decision on the behalf of another
Emergency medical treatment and active labor act
Requires hospitals to take care of patients even if their insurance will not cover it
End of life issues
Advance directives, what the patient wanted based on directives
Ethnicity
Persons identification with or membership in a racial, National, or cultural group
Experimental research
Explores the causal relationship between variables
Felony
Resulting in prison for more than a 1
Fidelity
Keeping promises or agreements
Florence nightingale
Puts the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon
4 D’s of negligence
Duty
Dereliction
Damages
Direct cause
HIPAA
Security and patient privacy act
Incivility
Loss of sleep, increased stress and depression, feelings of powerlessness, deceased confidence
Inference
Making a prediction
Information processing
Detect relationships among stimuli,
Intentional tort
Wrongs committed by individuals who deliberately seek to injure or hurt another
Interpretation
Examining how information is organized and giving meaning guides
Intuition
Feeling that you know something without specific evidence
Invasion of privacy
Public disclosure of private information
Just culture
Explicit value of reporting errors without punishment
Justice
Treating people fairly
Liability
Adherence to principles for delegation established by the ANA,a Dan accurate and timely documentation
Libel
Written forms of defamation of character
Living will
Specifies the treatment a person wants to recieve when he or she is unconscious
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
Malpractice
Negligence committed by a person functioning ina professional role
Near miss
An error or commission that could have harmed someone but didn’t
Negligence
Creating a risk of harm to others by failing to do something
Never event
Events that should never occur in health care
Apologize, report, cause alanysis, make policy available to patient
Nonmaleficience
Avoid harm to others
Nursing process
ADPIE
Patient self determination act
Supply all the patients with their rights and medical decision
PICO
Patient, problem, population
Intervention
Comparison
Outcome
Prejudice
Devaluing an entire group
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
Qualitative research
Words, feelings
Quantitative
Numbers, data
Quasi-experimental
Causal relationships. No randomization or control
Reason to study nursing theory
Group of concepts that can be tested in practice and can be derived from a conceptual framework
SBAR
Situation, background, assessment, recommendation
Sentinel event
Unexpected event involving death or serious physical or psychological injury or the risk for injury
Situational leadership
Changes based on the setting
Slander
Oral defamation of character
Standard of nursing character
Minimum requirements for providing safe nursing care
Standardized process in profession of nursing
Code of ethics, licensing, body of knowledge, educational preparation, altruism
State board of nursing
Creates rules and regulations regarding education and training within the state
Stereotype
Is a conceptualized depiction of a person, group, or event that is thought to be typical of all others in that category
Swansons theory
Knowing, being with, doing for, enabling, maintaining belief
Knowing
Avoiding assumptions Focusing on patient Assessment Seeking cues Engaging the self of both
Being with
Being there
Conveying ability
Sharing feelings
Not burdening
Doing for
Comforting Anticipating Performing skillfully Protecting Preserving divinity
Enabling
Informing Supporting Focusing Generating Validating
Maintaining belief
Believing in esteem
Hope filled attitude
Offering realistic. Optimism
Going the distance
Tell-health
The linking of medical professionals through a computer
Transactional leadership
Reward and punishment
Transformational
Employ methods that inspire people to follow their lead
Unintentional tort
Omissions or acts that cause unintended harm
Values
Based on personal experience
Veracity
Principle of truth telling
