Wk 8

Question 1

Nursing core values

Answer 1

Teamwork
Compassion
Versatile
Make a difference

Question 2

Clinical reasoning

Answer 2

Cognitive process, look at significance of pt data
Identify and diagnose problem
Clinical decisions enhance pt outcome

Question 3

Duty of care

Answer 3

Legal obligation in an individual requiring that they adhere to a standard of practice and reasonable care while performing acts that could harm others

Question 4

Nurses duty

Answer 4

Evaluate status of patient who are ill and seeking help

Implement care needed to at olive patients condition and prevent complications

Question 5

Confidentially

Answer 5

Prevents disclosure
Does not end when professional relationship with pt has ceased
Doesn’t end with death of the patient

Question 6

Consent

Answer 6

Must be informed, voluntary

Encompass act to be performed, given by someone legally competent to do so

Question 7

Aggressive and nonagressive life sustaining treatments

Answer 7

Aggressive: ventilation, surgery, chemotherapy

Nonagressive: antibiotics, blood transfusion, IV hydration

Question 8

Medical futility

Answer 8

Continued provision of care or treatment when there is no reasonable hope of a cure or benefit

Quantitative
Qualitative

Question 9

End of life decision making

Answer 9

Medical practitioner
Health care team
patient
Society

Question 10

Advanced directives

Answer 10

Document preferences regarding future healthcare decisions with onset of incompetence

Instructional (will)
Proxy (enduring power of attorney to act as decision maker)

Question 11

Do not resuscitate orders

Answer 11

Do not resuscitate does not meander not treat

Question 12

Issues with DNR orders

Answer 12

1. Decision making criteria guidelines and procedures
2. Problems concerning documentation and communication
3. Implementation of directives

Only 25% pts involved in DNR decision making

Question 13

Euthanasia

Answer 13

Victoria it is becoming legal assisted dying bill2017

Not illegal for patient to end their own life and person can elect to not receive treatment

Question 14

Organ donation

Answer 14

Heart lungs, liver, kidneys, intestine and pancreas

Heart valves bone, heart tissue, skin, tendons, ligaments, cornea

Question 15

Coroners responsibility

Answer 15

Judicial officer: unnatural causes or Unknown

Manner in which death arose
Cause of death
Particulars to register death
Identify deceased
Detect unlawful homicide

Question 16

Continuum of critical illness

Answer 16

Pre crisis proactive care
Management of critical illness
Follow up care
Palliative care in ICU