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Foundations (NRSG 312) Questions And Answers Latest Update
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2024/2025Foundations (NRSG 312)
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Nurse practice acts ANS✔✔ Establishes a state board of nursing w/ authority to develop rules and
regulations to clarify or make federal laws more specific
Protect safety and welfare of general public
Approve programs for pre-licensure nursing education
Standards (2) ANS✔✔ Voluntary- implemented by nursing profession (peer review guidelines)
Legal- developed by federal legislature and implemented by government (licenses)
Credentialing ANS✔✔ Ways professional competence is ensured & maintained (accreditation,
licensure, certification)
Accreditation ANS✔✔ Process where educational program is evaluated and recognized as having
met standards (done by state board of nursing)
Licensure ANS✔✔ Process where state determines a candidate meets certain minimum
requirements to practice (passing NCLEX, entry level competence). License is property right once
earned or may be revoked.
Certification ANS✔✔ Process where person who has met criteria is granted recognition in
specified practice (validates knowledge, experience, and clinical judgement)
Grounds to suspend or revoke license/registration ANS✔✔ Practice related, abuse, boundary
violations, sexual misconduct, drug related, fraud, positive criminal background checks
Intentional torts ANS✔✔ Assault- threat or attempt to make bodily contact w/o consent
, 2024/2025
Battery- assault carried out
Defamation- derogatory remark about another person to diminish reputation
Invasion of privacy (HIPPA)
False imprisonment
Fraud
Unintentional torts ANS✔✔ Negligence- not preforming an act that a reasonably prudent person
would do under similar circumstances
Areas of potential liability in nursing ANS✔✔ Medication and treatment errors
Obtaining informed consent
Providing education/counseling
Accepting an assignment you are not qualified for
Observing professional boundaries
Mandatory reporting regulations
(duty- obligation to use due care
breach of duty/causation- failure to meet standard of care
damages- harm of injury resulted)
Laws affecting nursing practice ANS✔✔ (ANA)Bill of rights, HIPPA, HITECH, EMTALA, PSDA,
ADA, Mandatory reporting laws, nurse practice acts, medical malpractice statutes, OSHA, national
practitioner data bank, reporting obligations, controlled substances, discrimination/sexual
harassment, restraint, wills, legal issues related to dying/death
Code of ethics ANS✔✔ 1. Compassion
2. Primary commitment is patient
3. Promote, advocate, and protect rights, health, and safety of patient
4.Authority, accountability, and responsibility for patient & providing optimal care
5. Owes same duties to self as to others
6. Maintain ethical environment
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