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| Ethical and legal standards are established to ensure that only |
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| safe, quality care is given |
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Another ethical principle respect for each patient as a unique individual demonstrated by differences in :
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- Age
- Race
- Religion
- Gender
- Sexual preference
- Culture
- Attitudes
- Background
- Response to illness
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| Respect for each patient as a unique individual can be reflected by: |
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- The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
- Platinum Rule: Treat others the way they want to be treated
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Information about patients is privileged and must not be shared with others asserted by Ethical Code
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B. False |
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A. True
- Discuss pts information only in appropriate places and proper people
- Refer pts request for information about laboratory results, condition to the nurse or doctor
- Let the nurse or doctor relay information about a patient's death. NA never give information concerning the death of patient to the patient's family
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Respect of patient religious beliefs is ensured by ethical code.
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B. False |
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Request for clergy visits by patient should be inform to the nurse.
A. True
B. False
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A. True
Ethical code to ensure respect of patients's personal religious beliefs |
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Ethical code to ensure respect of patients's personal religious beliefs, except:
A. Know if a chapel is open for use by patients and family
B. Avoid imposing your own religious beliefs on pts
C. Assist pts to practice their religious beliefs on patient
D. Stay in the room when the clergy visits and do not close the curtains
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| D. Wrong-when the clergy visits be helpful and courteous, escort the clergyperson to the pts bedside, draw the curtains or close the door for privacy, leave the room |
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Legal issues, except :
A. Negligence
B. Defamation
C. Tipping
D. Battery |
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C. Tipping
A. Negligence-Legal issues; careless, failure to exercise the degree of care result an unintended injury to patient
B. Defamation-Legal issues; false statements about someone to a third person and the character of the first person is injured (slander/verbally, libel/writing)
C. Tipping-Ethical issues; it will not depend on the patient's race, creed, color or ability to pay there is no place for tipping
D. Battery-legal issues; means the actually touching a person without that person's permission |
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Negligence and Neglect is ethical code
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B. False |
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B. False
Negligence and neglect is violation of the law
Negligence; careless, such as not performing your work as taught (forget to give a lunch tray to a confused patient)
Neglect; can be deliberate or accidental such as forgetting an assignment and not providing care |
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Involuntary seclusion is the separation of a patient from others against the patient's will, except:
A. Shutting the door to the patient's room, when the patient is confined to bed
B. Continually placing a patient's gerichair far from others
C. Leaving a patient without a form of communication such as a signal cord or call bell
D. Close the curtains during personal care |
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| D. Close the curtains during personal care |
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