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Unit 5 - Roles of the Professional Nurse
Test 1
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Nursing
Undergraduate 3
02/01/2014

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What are the purposed of a nurse?
Definition
1.) Achieve the goals of health promotion
2.) Illness prevention
3.) Health restoration
4.) End of life care
Term
What is health?
Definition
A state of complete physical, mental, and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Term
What is health promotion?
Definition
Activities that foster the highest state of well-being or the recipient of activities.
Term
Where can nurses work?
Definition
Hospitals, extended care facilities, nursing homes, ambulatory care, home care, community health
Term
What are some trends in care?
Definition
- increased use of complimentary/alternative medicine
- expanded variety of settings for care
- interest in interprofessional collaboration
- increased use of advance practice nurses
- increased risk of nursing assistive personnel
Term
What are the roles of the professional nurse?
Definition
1.) Direct Care Provider
2.) Communicator
3.) Client/Family Educator
4.) Counselor
5.) Change Agent
6.) Leader
7.) Manager
8.) Case Manager
9.) Research Consumer
Term
What are nursing practice acts?
Definition
Laws that regulate nursing practices.
Term
What are some regulations made by the state?
Definition
- Defining the practice of nursing
- Establishing criteria that allow a person to be considered an RN, LPN, LVN
- Determining activities that are in the scope of practice for each discipline.
- Enforcing the rules that govern nursing.

Georgia Board of Nursing
Term
What are some organizations that regulate nursing?
Definition
- American and Canadaian Nurses Assoc.
- National League of Nursing
- INternational Council for Nursing
- National Student Nurses Association
- Sigma Theta Tau International
Term
What is HIPAA?
Definition
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Protects health insurance benefits for workers who lose of change your job.
Protect coverage to persons with preexisting medical conditions.
Establish standards to protect the privacy of personal health information.
Term
What is EMTALA?
Definition
Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.

Provide emergency medical treatment to patients who seek healthcare in the emergency department, regardless of their ability to pay, legal stays, or citizenship status.
Term
What is living will?
Definition
Prepared by an alert and oriented human being that gives directions to others about the person's wishes regarding life-prolonging treatments.
Term
What is PSDA?
Definition
Patient Self Determining Act. Recognizes patient's rights to make decisions based on the information provided to him by the healthcare provider.
Term
What is a value?
Definition
Belief you have about the worth of something. Serves as a principle or standard that influences decision making.
Term
What is an attitude?
Definition
Mental dispositions or feelings towards seomthing
Term
What is a belief?
Definition
Something that on accepts as true
Term
What is a moral behavior?
Definition
Behavior that is in accordance w/ custom or tradition and usually reflects a personal/relgious beliefs.
Term
What are obstacles to moral behavior?
Definition
Physicians, nurse administrator, other nurses, instructional policies, the law, threat of lawsuits, being socialized to follow orders, and doubting their own knowledge.
Term
What is ethics?
Definition
Systematic study of right and wrong conduct in situations that involve issues or values and morals. Formal process for making logical and consistent moral decisions.
Term
What is nursing ethics?
Definition
Subset of bioethics. Refers to ethical questions that arise out of nursing practices.
Term
What is ethical agency?
Definition
The ability to base their practice on professional standards of ethical conduct and to participate in ethical decision making.
Term
What are sources of ethical problems?
Definition
1.) Increased consumer awareness
2.) Technilogical advances
3.) Mutlicultural population
4.) Cost containment
Term
What are Kohlberg's Levels of morals?
Definition
1.) Preconvenional - conform to norms
2.) Conventional - Meet societal norms
3.) Post conventional - Define own moral values
Term
What are ANA's standards of Cliinical nursing practice?
Definition
1.) Assessment
2.) Diagnosis
3.) Outcome Identification
4.) Planning
5.) Implementation
6.) Evaluation
7.) Ethics
8.) Education
9.) EVP/Research
10.) Quality Practice
11.) Communication
12.) Leadership
13.) Collegiality
14.) Collaberation
15.) Professional Practice Evaluation
16.) Resource Utilization
17.) Environmental Health
Term
How do you implement?
Definition
 a.) Coordination of Care
 b.) Health Teaching and Health Promotion
 c.) Consultation
 d.) Prescriptive Authority and Treatment
Term
What are 6 essential features to professional nursing?
Definition
• 1.) Provision of caring relationship
• 2.) A holistic approach
• 3.) Integration of objective data w/ knowledge of the patient’s subjective experience
• 4.) Application of scientific knowledge through use of judgement and critical thinking
• 5.) Advancement of professional nursing knowledge through scholarly inquiry
• 6.) Influence of social and
• public policy to promote social justice
Term
What is altruism?
Definition
Concern for welfare and well-being of others
Term
What is autonomy?
Definition
The right to self-determination
Term
What is integrity?
Definition
Respect for the inherent worth and uniqueness of individuals and populations
Term
What is social justice?
Definition
Upholding moral, legal, and humanistic principles.
Term
What is deontology?
Definition
Considers an action to be right or wrong regardless of the consequences. Decisions based on moral rules and unchanging principles.
Term
What is categorical imperative?
Definition
One should act only if the action is based on a principle that is universal.
Term
What does treat people as ends never as means, mean?
Definition
The person is more important than the goal you're trying to accomplish.
Term
What do rules, principles, rights and duties determine?
Definition
Which actions are right or wrong
Term
Sometimes choosing between __________ __________ ___________ is an aspect of deontology.
Definition
conflicting universal principles
Term
What is nonmalficence?
Definition
The twofold duty to do no harm and to prevent it.
Term
What is another word for malpractice? what is the definition?
Definition
Professional negligence.

When fulfillment of duties requires special education
Term
What are the 6 common causes of malpractice litigation?
Definition
1.) Failure to respond
2.) educate
3.) follow standards of care and institutional policies/procedures
4.) Communicate
5.) document
6.) act as an advocate
Term
What are some ways to minimize malpractice?
Definition
• Use professional standards
• Avoid medication and treatment errors
• Report and document
• Obtain informed consent
• Maintain patient safety
• Maintain confidentiality and privacy
• Provide education and counseling
• Assign, delegate, and supervise according to guidelines
• Only accept assignments for which you are qualified
• Participate in continuing education
• Observe professional boundaries
• Observe mandatory reporting regulations
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