Final Flashcards
(160 cards)
Why are children a growing medical population?
Due to increased survival rates.
When will the Nursing Paediatric Specialty Certificate Exam start examining RNs?
November 2019 - they will notify these nurses if they have passed by January 2020
What do child life specialists provide?
They provide evidence-based, developmentally and psychologically appropriate interventions including therapeutic play, preparation for procedures, and education to reduce fear, anxiety, and pain.
What is the circle of care?
The group of professionals that are currently helping a patient.
What are some of the rights you have as a health care consumer?
- Receive safe and proper care
- Give or refuse consent for any procedure, and for any reason
- Have a medical professional clearly explain health problems and treatments to you
- Participate in health care decisions
- Ask questions and express concerns
- Request a second opinion; within reason
- request to access your health information records
- be assured that personal info is confidential
- request the transfer of your health records to another medical professional
- make a complaint if any of these rights are violated
What are the 7 broad standards that set the tone for the rest of the documents guiding best practices in nursing (in Ontario)?
- Accountability
- Continuing Competency
- Ethics
- Knowledge
- Knowledge Application
- Leadership
- Relationships
What has the CNO (College of Nurses Ontario) decided that the most important values are when giving nursing care?
- Client well-being
- Client choice
- privacy and confidentiality
- respect for life
- maintaining commitments
- truthfulness
- fairness
With most health professionals, documentation usually includes what?
- the needs or goals of the client or group
- the nurse’s actions based on the needs assessment
- the outcomes and evaluation of those action
What is involved in informed consent?
- Involves the right of clients to be informed about the services they are going to receive, and to make autonomous decisions pertaining to them
What does informed consent require?
requires that the client understands the information presented, gives consent voluntarily, and is competent to give consent to treatment
What is a process that continues for the duration of the professional relationship?
Informed consent
What are some of the informed consent key contents (which should be provided in writing and discussed fully):
- The process
- Background of professional
- costs involved
- the length of service and termination
- Consultation with colleagues
- Interruptions in service
- clients’ right of access to their files
- rights pertaining to diagnostic labeling
- the nature and purpose of confidentiality
- benefits and risks of treatment
- alternatives to traditional service
- Tape recording or videotaping sessions
T or F: Informed consent is completed at the initial counselling session by having a client sign some forms
False: Informed consent is ongoing
What does the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child (2009) recommend?
- respect for the child’s right to express his or her views and to participate in promoting the healthy development and wellbeing of children
- This applies to individual health-care decisions, as well as to children’s involvement in the development of health policy and services
T or F: Ontario legislation does not identify an age at which minors may exercise independent consent for health care or services
True
What is decision-making capacity?
Professionals must make a determination of capacity to consent for a child just as they would for an adult.
What are some of the reasons why it can be a tricky and legally complicated process when working with children?
- parental rights to information about a minor’s treatment
- Minors’ assent versus consent
- Involving parents in the counselling process with minors
What is the definition for circle of care?
The ability of certain health information custodians to assume an individual’s implied consent to collect, use or disclose personal health information for the purpose of providing health care
What are some examples of health information custodians?
- health care practitioners + registered social workers
- public or private hospitals
- pharmacies
- laboratories
- ambulance services community care access corporations
- Person’s providing care names in Power of Attorney or Legal Document
T or F: record keeping is an essential standard of professional practice
true
Talk about record keeping from a clinical perspective:
- record keeping provides a history that a professional can use in reviewing the course of treatment
Talk about record keeping from an ethical perspective:
Records can assist practitioners in providing quality care to their clients or service users
Talk about record keeping from a legal perspective:
Provincial laws require keeping a record
_______________ is the practice of focusing on the identification, evaluation, and treatment of problems that may injure clients and lead
to filing an ethics complaint or a malpractice action.
Risk management
Informed consent
Termination
Standard of care
Risk management