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NUR 172 Exam 1 Questions And Answers
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health care law ANS✔✔ Scope of practice
Public health/infection control
Consent
Advanced directives
Malpractice ANS✔✔ Type of negligence, any professional misconduct,
unreasonable lack of professional skill, non adherence
4 elements of malpractice ANS✔✔ Duty
Breach of duty
Injury
Causation
Standards of care ANS✔✔ focuses on the recipient of care, patient
Standards of practice ANS✔✔ focuses on the provider.
National patient safety goals ANS✔✔ Identify patient correctly (name and
DOB)
Use medications safely (rights)
Prevent infections
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Improve staff communication
Identify patient safety risk to suicide
Prevent mistakes in surgery
Informed consent ANS✔✔ 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 ANS✔✔ Non Judgemental,
factual, not part of legal record.
Sentinel event ANS✔✔ 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 ANS✔✔ The principles that used in ethical and moral decision
making
Scope of practice for IV therapy ANS✔✔ OBN
Antibiotic = anti infection = antifungal
Initiate (first dose)
Maintain (administer/regulate)
IVPB = secondary = intermittent infusion (IV piggy back)
TPN
PCA
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