NURS 3105 Exam 1
What is the Nurse Practice Act? - ✔️✔️Describes and prescribes legal boundaries and
conduct of nursing practice
What is responsible for nursing practice and delegation of tasks? - ✔️✔️ANA code of
ethics
What is responsibility? - ✔️✔️Willingness to respect ones professional obligation and
to follow through
Ethics - ✔️✔️Study of conduct and character
Values - ✔️✔️Personal beliefs about worth
Autonomy - ✔️✔️Freedom from external control
Beneficence - ✔️✔️taking positive actions to help others
Normaleficence - ✔️✔️Avoidance of harm or hurt
Justice - ✔️✔️Fairness
Fidelity - ✔️✔️Agreement to keep promises
What is the code of ethics? - ✔️✔️Set of guiding principles that all members accpe
What is advocacy? - ✔️✔️Support of cause
Accountability - ✔️✔️Ability to answer for one's actions
What is confidentiality? - ✔️✔️protection of pt's health information
T/F all states have their own Nurse Practice Act. - ✔️✔️True
What are some safeguards to competent practice? - ✔️✔️-Respect legal boundaries of
practice
-Follow procedures and policies
-Own strengths and weaknesses
-Keep current
-Respect pt's rights and develop rapport with pts
-Work within agency for management policies
, What is the Americans with Disabilities Act? - ✔️✔️Can't refuse treatment
also includes people with AIDS, drugs, and alcohol
What is the Mental Health Parity Act? - ✔️✔️Forbids healthcare plans from placing
lifetime/annual limits on mental heath coverage that are less generous than
medical/surgical benefits
What is the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act? - ✔️✔️Individual that is 18 years or older
have right to be organ donor but wishes must be IN WRITING.
What are living wills? - ✔️✔️Wills written documents that direct treatment in
accordance of pt's wishes
What is the Durable power of attorney? - ✔️✔️POA when pt designates person to
make decisions for them if they are unable to
What are advance directives? - ✔️✔️Must be written in pt's chart
When you apply restraints what must you document? - ✔️✔️That all other "paths
crossed"
Who orders restraints and when do they have to be renewed? - ✔️✔️MD; every 24
hours
What are Good Samaritan Laws - ✔️✔️Limit liability and allow representation of nurses
if nurse helps voluntarily
What is the uniform determination of death act? - ✔️✔️Can use cardio pulmonary
definition/brain definition to determine death
What state allows Physician assisted suicide? - ✔️✔️Oregon
What act legalizes physician assisted suicide in Oregon? - ✔️✔️Oregon Death and
Dignity Act
What must be met in Physician Assisted Suicide according to Oregon Death and Dignity
Act - ✔️✔️-Must be end of life
-Terminable disease that is incurable
-Death imminent within 6 months
What is the best legal safeguard? - ✔️✔️Competent Ptactice
What is the Nurse Practice Act? - ✔️✔️Describes and prescribes legal boundaries and
conduct of nursing practice
What is responsible for nursing practice and delegation of tasks? - ✔️✔️ANA code of
ethics
What is responsibility? - ✔️✔️Willingness to respect ones professional obligation and
to follow through
Ethics - ✔️✔️Study of conduct and character
Values - ✔️✔️Personal beliefs about worth
Autonomy - ✔️✔️Freedom from external control
Beneficence - ✔️✔️taking positive actions to help others
Normaleficence - ✔️✔️Avoidance of harm or hurt
Justice - ✔️✔️Fairness
Fidelity - ✔️✔️Agreement to keep promises
What is the code of ethics? - ✔️✔️Set of guiding principles that all members accpe
What is advocacy? - ✔️✔️Support of cause
Accountability - ✔️✔️Ability to answer for one's actions
What is confidentiality? - ✔️✔️protection of pt's health information
T/F all states have their own Nurse Practice Act. - ✔️✔️True
What are some safeguards to competent practice? - ✔️✔️-Respect legal boundaries of
practice
-Follow procedures and policies
-Own strengths and weaknesses
-Keep current
-Respect pt's rights and develop rapport with pts
-Work within agency for management policies
, What is the Americans with Disabilities Act? - ✔️✔️Can't refuse treatment
also includes people with AIDS, drugs, and alcohol
What is the Mental Health Parity Act? - ✔️✔️Forbids healthcare plans from placing
lifetime/annual limits on mental heath coverage that are less generous than
medical/surgical benefits
What is the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act? - ✔️✔️Individual that is 18 years or older
have right to be organ donor but wishes must be IN WRITING.
What are living wills? - ✔️✔️Wills written documents that direct treatment in
accordance of pt's wishes
What is the Durable power of attorney? - ✔️✔️POA when pt designates person to
make decisions for them if they are unable to
What are advance directives? - ✔️✔️Must be written in pt's chart
When you apply restraints what must you document? - ✔️✔️That all other "paths
crossed"
Who orders restraints and when do they have to be renewed? - ✔️✔️MD; every 24
hours
What are Good Samaritan Laws - ✔️✔️Limit liability and allow representation of nurses
if nurse helps voluntarily
What is the uniform determination of death act? - ✔️✔️Can use cardio pulmonary
definition/brain definition to determine death
What state allows Physician assisted suicide? - ✔️✔️Oregon
What act legalizes physician assisted suicide in Oregon? - ✔️✔️Oregon Death and
Dignity Act
What must be met in Physician Assisted Suicide according to Oregon Death and Dignity
Act - ✔️✔️-Must be end of life
-Terminable disease that is incurable
-Death imminent within 6 months
What is the best legal safeguard? - ✔️✔️Competent Ptactice
