COMPLETE REAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
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Professional Accountability
code of ethics established by the ANA defines professional
accountability as being answerable to oneself and for ones own actions.
Nurses have a formal obligation of accountability (BON) and must be
willing to accept the professional responsibility of the care they provide.
Legal accountability
all nurses should be mindful of their legal responsibilities to patient.
Nurses are personally accountable by law for their actions and/or
admissions and have a legal obligation to provide care in their scope of
practice. Know what they can delegate.
, Ethical Accountability
relates to the nurses responsibility to provide for patient and maintain
the patients best interest as a priority
a. Responsibilities to maintain respect, malace, fairness and honesty and
benefidence (moral obligations)
Employment Accountability:
requires nurses to understand that employers cannot request that we do
something outside of Scope of Practice But they can limit more. (LPNS
can do IVpush meds here but not there)
4 Competencies for Graduates of Nursing Programs:
Human flourishing, nursing judgement, professional identity, spirit of
inquiry
Human flourishing
an effort to achieve self within a context of a larger community of
individuals each with a right to pursue his/her own such effort