NURS 1522 STUDY GUIDE ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔How to protect client from abuse - ✔✔-report
-intervene when necessary
-do not get involved with pt outside work
-monitor behaviour
✔✔Abuse - ✔✔physical or emotional harm to someone
✔✔CNO - ✔✔Chief Nursing Officer
✔✔CNO - Confidentiality and Privacy - ✔✔nurses have ethical and legal responsibilities
to maintain the confidentiality and privacy of client health information obtained while
providing client
✔✔CNO - Consent - ✔✔nurses have ethical and legal obligations for obtaining consent
✔✔RHPA - ✔✔Regulated Health Professions Act
✔✔What does RHPA do? - ✔✔ts out consistent rules and processes for governance,
registration, complaints and discipline, and regulation and by-law making authority
✔✔how do nurses break the law? - ✔✔-crime & torts
-false imprisonment
-negligence
-libel & slander
✔✔Libel - ✔✔written or printed material tending to injure a persons reputation unjustly
✔✔Slander - ✔✔-speaking or utterance of false info that damages another's reputation,
social media, group chats
- be aware of what you write and say
, ✔✔Crimes & Torts - ✔✔unintentional & intentional
✔✔Why do so many people breach confidentiality and privacy? - ✔✔-GOSSIP
✔✔Provincial Laws - ✔✔-good samaritan status
-PHIPA
-health care consent act
-substitute decisions act
-mental health act
✔✔Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act - ✔✔-response to national health crisis of
opioid overdose and deaths
-provides some legal protection for people who experience or witness an overdose
✔✔PHIPA - ✔✔Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004
✔✔What does PHIPA do? - ✔✔-allow for the sharing of personal health information
btwn healthcare team members to facilitate efficient and effective care
-in an emergency situation we are allowed to use personal information to obtain a
phone # of a next of kin as we may need to notify someone
✔✔Privacy and Confidentiality : Who can you share information with? - ✔✔-you can
only share information with those directly involved with patient
-lockbox prevision: pt makes choice to not share certain information
✔✔Privacy and Confidentiality : Who can access patient information? - ✔✔you, nurses,
anyone at healthcare facility
✔✔Privacy and Confidentiality : What can you share with patients family? - ✔✔-POA or
substitute decision maker
✔✔Privacy and Confidentiality : What can you share with your family? - ✔✔NOTHING
✔✔Health Care Consent Act (1996) - ✔✔-Health care practitioners have NO authority to
make treatment decisions on behalf of clients (except in an emergency when no
authorized person is available to make the decisions)
-A persons wishes about treatment, admission or personal assistance services may be
expressed orally, in writing, in any other form, or they may be implied
✔✔Informed Consent - ✔✔-person has knowledge about procedure
-nurses witness' the signature for formal procedure
-no age of health consent
-poa or substitute decision maker
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔How to protect client from abuse - ✔✔-report
-intervene when necessary
-do not get involved with pt outside work
-monitor behaviour
✔✔Abuse - ✔✔physical or emotional harm to someone
✔✔CNO - ✔✔Chief Nursing Officer
✔✔CNO - Confidentiality and Privacy - ✔✔nurses have ethical and legal responsibilities
to maintain the confidentiality and privacy of client health information obtained while
providing client
✔✔CNO - Consent - ✔✔nurses have ethical and legal obligations for obtaining consent
✔✔RHPA - ✔✔Regulated Health Professions Act
✔✔What does RHPA do? - ✔✔ts out consistent rules and processes for governance,
registration, complaints and discipline, and regulation and by-law making authority
✔✔how do nurses break the law? - ✔✔-crime & torts
-false imprisonment
-negligence
-libel & slander
✔✔Libel - ✔✔written or printed material tending to injure a persons reputation unjustly
✔✔Slander - ✔✔-speaking or utterance of false info that damages another's reputation,
social media, group chats
- be aware of what you write and say
, ✔✔Crimes & Torts - ✔✔unintentional & intentional
✔✔Why do so many people breach confidentiality and privacy? - ✔✔-GOSSIP
✔✔Provincial Laws - ✔✔-good samaritan status
-PHIPA
-health care consent act
-substitute decisions act
-mental health act
✔✔Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act - ✔✔-response to national health crisis of
opioid overdose and deaths
-provides some legal protection for people who experience or witness an overdose
✔✔PHIPA - ✔✔Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004
✔✔What does PHIPA do? - ✔✔-allow for the sharing of personal health information
btwn healthcare team members to facilitate efficient and effective care
-in an emergency situation we are allowed to use personal information to obtain a
phone # of a next of kin as we may need to notify someone
✔✔Privacy and Confidentiality : Who can you share information with? - ✔✔-you can
only share information with those directly involved with patient
-lockbox prevision: pt makes choice to not share certain information
✔✔Privacy and Confidentiality : Who can access patient information? - ✔✔you, nurses,
anyone at healthcare facility
✔✔Privacy and Confidentiality : What can you share with patients family? - ✔✔-POA or
substitute decision maker
✔✔Privacy and Confidentiality : What can you share with your family? - ✔✔NOTHING
✔✔Health Care Consent Act (1996) - ✔✔-Health care practitioners have NO authority to
make treatment decisions on behalf of clients (except in an emergency when no
authorized person is available to make the decisions)
-A persons wishes about treatment, admission or personal assistance services may be
expressed orally, in writing, in any other form, or they may be implied
✔✔Informed Consent - ✔✔-person has knowledge about procedure
-nurses witness' the signature for formal procedure
-no age of health consent
-poa or substitute decision maker
