Content Flashcards
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6 Ps of social media use
Professional Positive Patient/person free Protect yourself Privacy Pause before you post
Steps of Gibbs Reflective Cycle (1998)
Description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion, action plan
Stephenson’s framework (1994) example questions
Choose a situation and ask yourself:
- What was my role?
- What actions did I take?
- How could I have improved the situation?
- What can I change in the future?
- Do I feel as if I have learnt anything new about myself?
- Did I expect anything different to happen?
- Has this situation changed my way of thinking?
- What knowledge can I apply to this situation?
- What broader issues arise from this situation? What do I think about these?
John’s model for structured reflection
- Phenomenon:
describe the experience - Causal:
what essential factors contributed to this experience? - Context:
what are the significant background factors to this experience? - Reflection:
What was I trying to achieve?
Why did I intervene as I did?
What were the consequences to everyone involved?
How did I feel abt this experience when it was happening? - Alternative actions:
What other choices did I have? What would those consequences be? - Learning:
How do I feel about this experience?
Could I have dealt w it better?
What have I learnt?
De Bono’s Six Hats
- White: information
- Red: feelings, intuition and emotion
- Black: caution
- Yellow: values and benefits
- Green: growth, energy and life
- Blue: the thinking process
Tanners Clinical judgement model (2006)
Introduction Background Noticing Interpreting Responding Reflection-in-action Reflection-on-action and clinical learning
What are the rights of health practitioners?
The right:
- Not to be unfairly dismissed or punished
- To question an employers instructions
- To receive compensation for work-related accidents
- To a fair hearing before any adverse action is taken
- Not to be discriminated against on the grounds of race, gender, disability, age, sexuality, and other grounds
What is the Nursing Council of NZ and what is its primary function?
Is the regulatory authority responsible for the registration of nurses.
Primary function is to protect the health and safety of members of the public by ensuring that nurses are competent and fit to practice.
What is the HPCA (2003) responsible for? Can nurses be disciplined under this Act? If so, how?
- Ensuring that nurses are:
Fit to practice (incl. competence),
Educated,
Registered; and
Maintaining their annual practising certificate - Yes
- Through the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal, which has the right to remove registration
What is the primary intention of the health practitioner’s disciplinary tribunal?
to protect the public, and set and maintain standards w/in the profession
Purpose of the ‘Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers Rights (1996)’ Act
To promote and protect the rights of health consumers and disability services consumers, and to facilitate the fair, simple, speedy, and efficient resolution of complaints relating to infringements of those rights
The 10 rights of health consumers
The right to:
- Respect
- Fair treatment
- Dignity and independence
- Proper standards
- Effective communication
- Be fully informed
- make informed choices and give informed consent
- Support
- Rights when taking part in research and teaching
- Complain
3 legal elements of consent
- Consent must be freely given and not coerced
- Consent must be given by the consumer or, where applicable, by any person who is entitled to consent on that consumer’s behalf
- Consent must be obtained in accordance w such requirements as prescribed in the code
What does the Privacy Act (1993) control? How is this different from the Health Information Privacy Code (1994)?
- Controls how “agencies” collect, use, disclose, store and give access to “personal information”
- The HIPCs do the same, but they apply to specific areas - particularly health, telecommunications and credit reporting
What are the 12 Privacy rules for health professionals according to the HIPC (1994)?
- Purpose of collection
- Source of
- Collection from individual
- Manner of collection
- Storage and security of
- Access to
- Correction of
- Accuracy of
- Retention of
- Limits on use of
- Limits on disclosure of
- Unique identifiers
What does the Human Rights Act (1993) protect people in NZ from?
Discrimination in a number of areas of life.
Health and Safety at Work Act (2015):
- What are we all working towards?
- How?
- A significant reduction in serious injury, illness and death from work
- Through: targeting risk, working together, working smarter, and working safer
Misuse of Drugs Act (1975):
- Includes what types of drugs?
- Defines what?
- Controlled and non-controlled drugs
- Defines illegal drugs, possession, and supply
Medicines Act (1981):
- Regulates what?
- Permits what?
- Regulates the use and manufacture of medicines
- Permits administration of prescription medicines only in accordance w the direction of the authorised prescriber who prescribed it, or accordingly a standing order
What are some measures you should take when administering a medicine, to ensure you have an understanding of the drug’s therapeutic purpose and justifying its use and/or to protect patients from harm due to negligent handling/administration?
- Insist on proper prescribing
- Question the prescriber
- Refuse to prepare medicines in advance
- Check expiries
- Check for interactions
What are the four principle elements that outline the standards of ethical conduct as determined by the ICN code of ethics for nurses?
- Nurses and people:
In providing care, the nurse promotes an environment in which the human rights, values, customs and spiritual beliefs of the individual, family and community are respected. - Nurses and practice:
The nurse carries personal responsibility and accountability for nursing practice, and for maintaining competence by continual
learning. - Nurses and the profession:
The nurse assumes the major role in determining and
implementing acceptable standards of clinical nursing practice, management, research and education - Nurses and co-workers:
The nurse sustains a collaborative and respectful relationship with co-workers in nursing and other fields. The nurse takes appropriate action to safeguard individuals,
families and communities when their health is endangered by a co-worker or any other person.
What does bioethics represent?
Ethics in healthcare. The primary approach is the rights and duties of patents and health care professionals
What is moral agency?
The ability to behave in an ethical way.
What is ethical competence?
The precondition to providing quality healthcare; essentially to “be” ethical, and having the ability to recognise ethical issues
