NUR 172 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECTLY SOLVED ANSWERS

NUR 172 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECTLY
SOLVED ANSWERS.


health care law -- Correct Answer ✔✔ Scope of practice
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Public health/infection control
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Consent
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Malpractice -- Correct Answer ✔✔ Type of negligence, any professional misconduct,
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unreasonable lack of professional skill, non-adherence t t t t t




4 elements of malpractice -- Correct Answer ✔✔ Duty
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Injury
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Standards of care -- Correct Answer ✔✔ focuses on the recipient of care, patient
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Standards of practice -- Correct Answer ✔✔ focuses on the provider.
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National patient safety goals -- Correct Answer ✔✔ Identify patient correctly (name and
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DOB)
Use medications safely (rights)
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Prevent infections t t




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Identify patient safety risk to suicide
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Prevent mistakes in surgery t t t




Informed consent -- Correct Answer ✔✔ Provide patient with enough information so
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they are able to make a decision.
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Nurse can be a witness, make sure it's signed.
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, Dr is responsible to obtain consent
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Unusual occurrence report → incident report -- Correct Answer ✔✔ Non Judgmental,
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factual, not part of legal record. t t t t t




Sentinel event -- Correct Answer ✔✔ Not related to patient's natural course of illness
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(delay in treatment, pt fall, tissue necrosis) severe infiltrate. *malpractice complication
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with sentinel event. Injury causing a graft to patients IV site.
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Code of ethics -- Correct Answer ✔✔ The principles that used in ethical and moral
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Scope of practice for IV therapy -- Correct Answer ✔✔ OBN
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Antibiotic = anti infection = antifungal t t t t t




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Maintain (administer/regulate) t




IVPB = secondary = intermittent infusion (IV piggy back)
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TPN
PCA
PICC
Places where LPN can start an IV→ antecubital to hand
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Just culture -- Correct Answer ✔✔ Reporting healthcare errors without punishment.
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Nurse still to be held accountable for actions! Emphasis on correcting flows in the system
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and preventing future errors. Empowers staff to participate in reporting errors without
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fear of punishment. Nurse's legal, ethical and professional responsibility to participate to
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Patient self-determination act -- Correct Answer ✔✔ Health care law that gives patients
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the right to choose if they want to have the procedure done even if recommended by the
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doctor.

LPN can reduce risk to IV therapy by -- Correct Answer ✔✔ Six rights of administration
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Monitor for complications t t




Allergies
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