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Competency - correct answer ✅A LEGAL, not a medical concept.
A person is considered competent until a court rules the person to be
incompetent
Ask. yourself......Can the client make reasonable judgments and
decisions regarding tx?
If the person is incompetent, a court-appointed guardian will make
health decisions
Evidence based research Steps - correct answer ✅1. Ask a question
2. Research evidence
3. Implementation
4. Measure
4. Evaluate outcomes
5. Disseminate findings
Assessment - correct answer ✅Assess before you do an intervention
If there is an option - do that first!
Important ethical principles in psychiatry - correct answer ✅Mutual
decision making - client must be involved in decision making
Patient's right to be treated in the least restrictive setting
,ANCC IQ Flash cards Purple
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Right to refuse treatment unless a legal process involving mandatory
court order
Informed consent - correct answer ✅PMHNP - responsible for ensuring
client is cognitively capable of giving consent
Emancipated minors - correct answer ✅persons younger than 18 years
old who are married, parents, or self- sufficiently living away from the
family domicile
Deontological theory - correct answer ✅Action is judged as good or
bad based on the act itself regardless of the
consequences
Teleological Theory - correct answer ✅Action is judged as good or bad
based on the consequence/outcome
Virtue ethics - correct answer ✅Actions are based on moral virtues -
honesty, compassion, wisdom, gratitude, self-
respect or the character of the person making the decision
ANA code of ethics - correct answer ✅9 principles
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1. Safety
2. Compassion
3. Respect
4. Commitment
5. Human rights
6. Promote diplomacy
7. Reduce health disparities
8. Nursing values
9. Safe working environment
Liability - correct answer ✅Legal responsibility that an NP has for
actions that fail to meet the standard of care→actual or potential harm
to a patient
Negligence - correct answer ✅Failure of NP to provide care as any
reasonable NP would, result in harm to patient
Malpractice - correct answer ✅Failure of professional to render
services with degree of care, diligence, precaution that other member
would render to prevent injury
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Malpractice case must prove negligence
Assault - correct answer ✅An attempt to commit a battery or
intentional act performed that produce apprehension in
another individual of imminent harm or offensive contact
Battery - correct answer ✅An unlawful act of contact with another
person resulting in body injury, offensive touching
Involuntary commitment - correct answer ✅Admitting individuals into
a mental health unit against their will
Good Samaritan Statutes - correct answer ✅In states that have
enacted this, NPs and other healthcare professionals who acts as first
responders to care for injured individuals outside of the workplace
Exempt from liability for ordinary negligence when injured person is
worse after care
NPs can be found liable for gross negligence
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