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NUR 172 exam 1/36 questions with Answers
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NUR 172 exam 1/36 questions withAnswers
health care law - - Scope of practice
Public health/infection control
Consent
Advanced directives
- Malpractice - - Type of negligence, any professional misconduct,
unreasonable lack of professional skill, non adherence
- 4 elements of malpractice - - Duty
Breach of duty
Injury
Causation
- Standards of care - - focuses on the recipient of care, patient
- Standards of practice - - focuses on the provider.
- National patient safety goals - - Identify patient correctly (name and DOB)
Use medications safely (rights)
Prevent infections
Improve staff communication
Identify patient safety risk to suicide
Prevent mistakes in surgery
- Informed consent - - Provide patient with enough information so they are
able to make a decision.
Nurse can be a witness, make sure it's signed.
Dr is responsible to obtain consent
- Unusual occurrence report → incident report - - Non Judgemental, factual,
not part of legal record.
- Sentinel event - - Not related to patient's natural course of illness (delay in
treatment, pt fall, tissue necrosis) severe infiltrate. *malpractice
complication with sentinel event. Injury causing a graft to patients IV site.
- Code of ethics - - The principles that used in ethical and moral decision
making
- Scope of practice for IV therapy - - OBN
Antibiotic = anti infection = antifungal
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