Clinical Nursing Skills exam 1 study guide with complete solutions.
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Course
Clinical Nursing
Institution
Clinical Nursing
ANA Scope and Standards of Care
RULES for delegation, behavior, and duty.
Nurse Practice Acts
are LAW and they differ state by state. One law that is required in all states is the nurse must be licensed!
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You (The RN)
cannot delegate evaluation/assessment.
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Clinical Nursing Skills exam 1 study guide
with complete solutions
NA Scope and Standards of Care - ANSWER- RULES for delegation, behavior, and
duty.
Nurse Practice Acts - ANSWER- are LAW and they differ state by state. One law
that is required in all states is the nurse must be licensed!
You (The RN) - ANSWER- cannot delegate evaluation/assessment.
responsiblity - ANSWER- Doing what is right.
accountablility - ANSWER- responsibility to someone or for some activity.
EPB - ANSWER- a guide for making accurate, timely, and appropriate decisions. It
makes the best use of evidence, expertise, and patient preference and values.
PICO question - ANSWER- A format approach for organizing a clinical question
into four components:Patient population, Intervention or area of interest,
Comparison of interest, Outcome.
The best evidence - ANSWER- well-designed, systematically conducted research
studies, found in scientific journals.
all hospitals are required to meet to receive Medicare and Medicaid
reimbursement. This new condition required each patient to be notified of his or
her rights - ANSWER- Patient's Rights Condition of Participation Act of 1999
, requires all Medicare- and Medicaid-recipient hospitals to provide patients with
information about their right to accept or reject medical treatment. At the time of
registration, patients receive information about advance directives and are
referred to appropriate resources if they want to discuss advance directives or
receive help in completing an advance directive document - ANSWER- Patient's
Self Determination Act of 1991
Federal law to protect the privacy of patient health information. - ANSWER-
Federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) of 2003
a federal law intended to protect patients from being transferred against their
wishes and thus defines how an appropriate facility-to-facility transfer is
accomplished. - ANSWER- Emergency Treatment and Labor Act of 2003
(EMTALA)
a document that gives a patient's directions about future medical care or
designates another person(s) to make medical decisions if the individual loses
decision-making capacity. It conveys the patient's choice in continuing medical
care when the patient is unable to speak or make decisions.
a living will
power of attorney for health care
a notarized handwritten document - ANSWER- advanced directive
Chain of Infection - ANSWER- Infectious Agent/Pathogen Reservoir Portal of Exit
Mode of Transmission Portal of Entry Susceptible Host
Portal of Exit - ANSWER- how the organism moves from the reservoir to the host
Mode of Transmission - ANSWER- contact, droplet, airborne, common vehicle,
vector borne
Portal of Entry - ANSWER- how organisms enter the new host ex. Broken skin,
respiratory tract, indewlling catheter, IV site
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