LEGAL/ ETIical

Question 0

Statutory law

Answer 0

Legislation passed by government body

Ex: The nurse practice act is an example

Question 1

Common law

Answer 1

• judical decisions
• “case law”
• miranda rights is an example

Question 2

Criminal law

Answer 2

• act against people/society
• reasonable doubt
• misdemeanor
• felony

Question 3

Civil action (tort)

Answer 3

• an individual or group receive monetary compensation for injury (mental or physical)
• intentional vs. unintentional

Question 4

Intentional tort

Answer 4

Assault 
Battery 
False imprisonment (restraints)
Defamation
       -libel (written)
       -slander (verbal)

Question 5

Unintentional tort

Answer 5

Negligence requires a duty, breach of duty, actual damage or injury, proximate cause

Malpractice : (professional (listened) negligence )

            - act of omission (supposed to do something...but failed too)
            - act of commission ( did it wrong/caused more harm)

Question 6

All four must apply together in order to be considered malpractice

Answer 6

Duty

Breach

Harm

Proximate cause

Question 7

Personal liability

Answer 7

1-1 all one persons fault

Question 8

Vicarious liability

Answer 8

Wrong place at the wrong time… Associated with it.

Question 9

Institutional liability

Answer 9

Hospital/ facility as a whole as well as individuals are at fault

Question 10

Morals

Answer 10

Society or groups agreed upon right or wrong

Question 11

Ethics

Answer 11

Accountability

Question 12

Values

Answer 12

Society, personal, organized (a blend of the 3)

How you prioritize right and wrong

Question 13

The document that defines and limits the scope of nursing practice is?

Answer 13

Nurse practice act

Question 14

The nurse protects the information in a patients chart to fulfill the ethical responsibility for?

Answer 14

Confidentiality

Question 15

The nurse concludes that the best way to avoid a law suit is?

Answer 15

Providing compassionate, competent care

Question 16

A newly licensed LVN may practice?

Answer 16

Under the supervision of a physician or RN

Question 17

The document in which the roles and responsibilities of the LVN is identified is the ?

Answer 17

State Practice Act

Question 18

The purpose of licensing laws for LVN is to?

Answer 18

Protect the public from unqualified people

Question 19

The nurse would avoid standing at the bedside with a patient lying in bed because the nurse may be construed as demonstrating?

Answer 19

Power

Question 20

Assuming responsibility for a patient’s care forms a legally binding condition that is described as?

Answer 20

Nurse-patient relationship

Question 21

Universal guidelines are developed for all nursing interventions which define appropriate measures that should be observed during the performance of those interventions. These are known as?

Answer 21

Standard of care

Question 22

Autonomy

Answer 22

The personal rule of the self that is free from both controlling interferences by others and from personal limitations that prevent means full choice

Ex( presenting all treatment options to a patient, explaining risks the patient understands)

Question 23

Non-maleficence

Answer 23

Means to “do no harm”

do the benefits out weigh the harm?

Question 24

Beneficence

Answer 24

Is action thar is done for the benefit of others

Beneficent actions can be taken to help prevent or remove harms or simply improve the situations of others

EX( resuscitating a drowning victim)

Question 25

Informed consent

Answer 25

Is the requirement that one shares decision making with patients.

Question 26

A fixed concept of how all members of an ethnic group act or think is identified as?

Answer 26

Ethnic stereotype

Question 27

When members of a particular ethnic group believe that their beliefs and practices are the best, this is?

Answer 27

Ethnocentrism

Question 28

The term used to describe cultures which the women make decisions about health care and provide the care and discipline to the children is ?

Answer 28

Matriarchal

Question 29

A set of learned values, beliefs, customs, and practices shared by a group is referred to as ?

Answer 29

Culture

Question 30

The nurse who diligently works for the protection of the patients interests is functioning in the role of?

Answer 30

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