FINAL Flashcards
(93 cards)
Examples of intentional torts
Assault:
Battery:
Invasion of privacy:
False Imprisonment:
when does negligence become a problem / is considered negligence
when a nurse had a duty to carry out but didn’t do it and the patient was injured due to the nurse not carrying out their duty
what is the term for when the employer is held accountable for an employees actions
vicarious liability
who can be help responsible if a nurse if given an unsafe task (floating related)
nursing supervisor
Abandonment, Assignment, and Contract Issues are
Short staffing Floating Physicians orders Dispensing advice over the phone Contracts and employments agreement
what are legal issues in nursing
Breach in confidentiality Poor documentation Not having informed consent Unsafe work environments (understaffed or violent) Negliengce
function of CRNA
- public is issued of safe, competent, ethical nursing care
- takes action when complaints are mad
- issue permits
OVERALL PUBLIC SAFETY
Nurses role in informed consent
- protecting the patient
- ensuring patient understands
HPA role
set standards for regulatory bodies
what organization is non-profit and provides legal support and liability protection to nurses
Canadian Nurses Protective Society (CNPS)
advance directive meaning
a mechanism enabling a mentally competent person o plan for a time when mental capacity is lost
what is risk management
system fo ensuring appropriate nursing care by identifying potential hazard and preventing harm from occurring
steps in risk management
Identify possible risks
Analyze risks
Act to reduce risks
Evaluate steps taken
what does political action look like?
- voting
- sending letters
- running for office
- talking to MLA
- taking up leadership roles
reducing system wide difference that disadvantage certain groups and prevents equal access to determinants of health and health care system is the focus of..?
social justice
dimension of emancipatory knowing
Creating process of critiquing and imagining (analyzing the situation and imaging possibilities)
Formal expression (action plans)
Authentication process (assessing the sustainability of changes)
Integrated questions
what enables people to change by encouraging self- reflection and a deep understanding of their situation
Praxis
what is the art of nursing
reflecting and best way to utilize the science, creativity
- how nurses use info, reflect, empathy, understanding
what does praxis lead to
emancipatory knowing
what does praxis provide
allows nurses to build and change ideas, knowledge and how action is taken
is the praxis is dynamic or static
dynamic
what guides the nursing care
relation inquiry
what is sophisticated inquiry
ability to ask questions
clinical judgment, decision-making skills, and clinical competencies are a part of …?
strong clinal skills