HONDROS NUR 205 EXAM 1 ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Prioritization - ✔✔to decide which patient needs or problems require immediate
attention and what can be delayed
3 levels of priority ABC's, VS, mental status, other health problems
✔✔4 P's of delegation - ✔✔purpose for the care
picture of the patients current condition
plan or envision outcomes of care
Part played by each team member
✔✔Delegation - ✔✔Transferring a selected nursing task to a competent individual that
falls within their scope of practice. The RN retains accountability for delegation of the
task and care provided
RN obligated to delegate based on prioritization of clinical situation, pt situation,
personnel available and must provide ongoing assessment
✔✔Negligence - ✔✔Failure to use reasonable prudent care in the smart to similar
circumstances
ties in with healthcare law or tort law
✔✔Elements that must occur to establish liability of negligence - ✔✔Duty-professional
duty of reasonable care to pt that a reasonable prudent nurse would perform in same
circumstance
Breach of Duty-falling below standard of care causing injury
Causation-breach of care causing direct harm
Injury/harm- may be physical or combination of physical mental emotional or financial
✔✔Nurse Practice Act - ✔✔Permits individual to obtain licensure to perform
professional duties based on demonstrated qualifications and competency to perform
actions which are illegal without a license
, ✔✔Scope of Practice - ✔✔Range of permissible activity defined by law or defines what
a RN can or cannot do
Ex- Ohio board of nursing writes scope of practice for nurses in Ohio
✔✔Tort Law - ✔✔Most common basis for liability of nurses, physicians, and other health
care providers
Civil tort is an action or omission that results in harm to a person
Unintentional- negligence
Intentional-intentionally harming or violating rights
✔✔Healthcare Law - ✔✔collection of laws having direct impact on delivery of healthcare
or between deliverers and recipients of healthcare
EX HIPAA 1996
✔✔Development - ✔✔complex process of physical, psychological, cognitive and
developmental changes through life from birth to death
✔✔Culture - ✔✔pattern of shared attributes or beliefs
self definitions, norms, roles and values that can occur among those who speak a
particular language or live in a defined geographical region
✔✔Spirituality - ✔✔A belief, principle, experience or attitude
Nurse should assess and integrate in care by communication and listening skills
Involves recognizing honoring beliefs and practices of others
✔✔Communication - ✔✔Process of interaction using symbols to create, exchange and
interpret messages
Learned skin develops overtime
Complementary exchange-a sender transmitting a message to a receiver
✔✔Collaboration - ✔✔development of partnerships to achieve best possible outcomes
that reflects the particular needs of a patient
✔✔types of collaborations - ✔✔Nurse Nurse- intraprofessional, mentoring
Nurse Patient-partake as members of healthcare team
Interprofessional-team of different health providers
Interorganizational- regional, national, international level
✔✔Evidence based practice - ✔✔problem solving model to clinical practice that
integrates the conscientious use of best practice in combination with a clinicians
expertise and patient preferences and values in making decisions about patient care
✔✔Autonomy - ✔✔the initiation of independent nursing interventions without medical
orders
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Prioritization - ✔✔to decide which patient needs or problems require immediate
attention and what can be delayed
3 levels of priority ABC's, VS, mental status, other health problems
✔✔4 P's of delegation - ✔✔purpose for the care
picture of the patients current condition
plan or envision outcomes of care
Part played by each team member
✔✔Delegation - ✔✔Transferring a selected nursing task to a competent individual that
falls within their scope of practice. The RN retains accountability for delegation of the
task and care provided
RN obligated to delegate based on prioritization of clinical situation, pt situation,
personnel available and must provide ongoing assessment
✔✔Negligence - ✔✔Failure to use reasonable prudent care in the smart to similar
circumstances
ties in with healthcare law or tort law
✔✔Elements that must occur to establish liability of negligence - ✔✔Duty-professional
duty of reasonable care to pt that a reasonable prudent nurse would perform in same
circumstance
Breach of Duty-falling below standard of care causing injury
Causation-breach of care causing direct harm
Injury/harm- may be physical or combination of physical mental emotional or financial
✔✔Nurse Practice Act - ✔✔Permits individual to obtain licensure to perform
professional duties based on demonstrated qualifications and competency to perform
actions which are illegal without a license
, ✔✔Scope of Practice - ✔✔Range of permissible activity defined by law or defines what
a RN can or cannot do
Ex- Ohio board of nursing writes scope of practice for nurses in Ohio
✔✔Tort Law - ✔✔Most common basis for liability of nurses, physicians, and other health
care providers
Civil tort is an action or omission that results in harm to a person
Unintentional- negligence
Intentional-intentionally harming or violating rights
✔✔Healthcare Law - ✔✔collection of laws having direct impact on delivery of healthcare
or between deliverers and recipients of healthcare
EX HIPAA 1996
✔✔Development - ✔✔complex process of physical, psychological, cognitive and
developmental changes through life from birth to death
✔✔Culture - ✔✔pattern of shared attributes or beliefs
self definitions, norms, roles and values that can occur among those who speak a
particular language or live in a defined geographical region
✔✔Spirituality - ✔✔A belief, principle, experience or attitude
Nurse should assess and integrate in care by communication and listening skills
Involves recognizing honoring beliefs and practices of others
✔✔Communication - ✔✔Process of interaction using symbols to create, exchange and
interpret messages
Learned skin develops overtime
Complementary exchange-a sender transmitting a message to a receiver
✔✔Collaboration - ✔✔development of partnerships to achieve best possible outcomes
that reflects the particular needs of a patient
✔✔types of collaborations - ✔✔Nurse Nurse- intraprofessional, mentoring
Nurse Patient-partake as members of healthcare team
Interprofessional-team of different health providers
Interorganizational- regional, national, international level
✔✔Evidence based practice - ✔✔problem solving model to clinical practice that
integrates the conscientious use of best practice in combination with a clinicians
expertise and patient preferences and values in making decisions about patient care
✔✔Autonomy - ✔✔the initiation of independent nursing interventions without medical
orders
