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| ability to answer fir one's own actions |
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| support of a cause; a nurse advocates for health, safety, and rights of the client |
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| commitment to include client in decisions about care; ex: reading and signing consent |
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| taking positive actions to help others |
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| set of guiding principles that all members of a profession accept |
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| protection of client's personal health information |
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| value of something is determined by its usefulness; emphasis on outcome or conquences |
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| defines actions as right or wrong; doesn't look to consequences |
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| promote a philosophy that focuses on understanding relationships, especially personal narratives |
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| study of conduct and character |
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| agreement to keep promises |
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| avoidance of harm or hurt |
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| willingness to respect obligations and to follow through on promises |
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| study of ends or final causes |
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| a personal belief about the worth of a given idea, attitude, custom, or object that sets standards that influence behavior |
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| your own, your clents', your co-workers'; you need to tolerate differences; some people have such strong values that they consider them value facts |
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| Administrative Law/Regulatory Law |
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| reflect decisions made by administrative bodies such as State Boards of Nursing when the pass rules and regulations; these allow to turn in unethical nursing conduct |
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| any intentional threat to bring about harmful or offensive contact; no contact is necessary and threatens are assaults too |
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| any intentional touching without consent; always includes an assault |
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| protect the rights of individual persons within our society and encourage fair and equitable treatment among people |
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| results from judicial decisions made in courts when individual legal cases are decided |
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| prevents harm to society and provides punishment for crimes |
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| it's the way health care providers treat client's private information once it has been disclosed; sacred trust to client |
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| publication of false statements that result in damage to a person's reputation |
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| crime of a serious nature that has a penalty of imprisonment for greater than one year or even death |
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| Incident Report/Occurence Report |
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| provides a database for further investigation in an attempt to determine deviations from standards of care and corrective measures needed to prevent recurrence and to alert risk management to a potential claim situation |
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| person's agreement to allow something to happen, based on a full disclosure of risks, benefits, alternatives, and consequences of refusal |
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| willful acts that violate another's rights, such as assault, battery, and false imprisonment |
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| less serious crime that has a penalty of a fine or imprisonment for less than a year |
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| describe and define the legal boundaries of nursing practice within each state; establish educational requirements for nurses |
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| elected legislative bodies such as state legislatures and US Congress create it |
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| legal guidelines for nursing practice and provide the minimum acceptable nursing care |
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| represent written documents that direct treatment in accordance with a client's wishes in the event of a terminal illness or condition |
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| right of clients to keep information about themselves from being disclosed |
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| civil wrong made against a person or property |
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| the person publishing the information knows it is false and publishes it anyway or publishes it with wreckless disregard as to the truth |
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| when one verbalizes the false statement |
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| written defamation of character; charting false entries |
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| conduct that falls below a standard of care |
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| one type of negligence and often referred to as professional negligence |
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| system of ensuring appropriate nursing care that attempts to identify potential hazards and eliminate them before harm occurs |
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