Exam 1 Flashcards
(61 cards)
The power or right to get other orders
Authority
Accuracy and the truth
Veracity
Faithfulness to a person
Fidelity
Right and wrong also good and bad
Ethics
Bioethics
Is this a specific healthcare ethics?
Personal ethics
Morals, values, and beliefs
Set guidelines, to protect rights and welfare
Institutional review board
Active charity, mercy or kindness, overall doing good
Beneficence
Do no harm
Nonmaleficence
Who requires hospital to provide the right number of competent staff to meet the needs of the patients?
Joint commission
Steps of the nursing process
1 gather information
2 help establish priority, nursing action
3 provide method of planning
What are the three identifying principles?
Systemic before local, acute before chronic, actual before potential
JC does accreditation to measure…
Assess the quality of patient care and improve the healthcare system
What are the 3things that an RN must do the first time
Education and initial assessment, and developing a plan of care
Registered nurses have a long life what
Learning continuation to gain knowledge
Clinical sites are visited by who
Joint commission
OSHA monitors what
Workplace safety and health of America’s workers
Companies received what for noncompliance?
Fines
Delegation permits, and individuals to do what
To do a goal on your behalf
Decentralized is being done where?
In the hospital at the point of care
Authorize abbreviations for medication is done through who?
Joint commission
What is the benefits of accreditation?
Leads to improve on patient care
What actions or means helps a registered nurse move up?
Working in the field of expertise and orienting new nurses
Areas that JCO specialize in?
Patient rights, infection rate, and treatments