MGCCC Fundamentals Final
Pharmacist - ✔️✔️Responsible for providing drug therapy for positive client outcomes;
activities include drug information services, Client and health care staff education,
dispensing medications and client monitoring, adverse drug reaction reporting,
research, concurrent drug use evaluation, and consultative services in areas such as
pain management and nutritional support.
Decentralized Decision Making - ✔️✔️Decisions made at the staff level.
Advantages - Increased morale and improved interpersonal relationships among staff.
Staff members feel more important and are more willing to contribute. Also promotes
creativity in problem solving.
Advocacy - ✔️✔️Providing patients with the information they need to make decisions
and supports the patients in whatever decisions they make
Autonomy - ✔️✔️Autonomy refers to a person's independence. Represents an
agreement to respect a patient's right to determine a course of action. For example,
before surgery a patient is required to sign a consent form. The purpose of the consent
is to ensure in writing that the health care team respects the patient's independence by
obtaining his or her permission to proceed. Respect for autonomy becomes complicated
when the patient is a child or when he or she is cognitively impaired by disease, age, or
trauma. Although the health care team turns to whoever is identified as legally
responsible for the patient, the ethical goal remains to try to determine the best interests
of the patient from the patient's point of view.
Patient's Bill of Rights - ✔️✔️Informs patients about what they should expect during
their hospital stay
Patient Self-Determination Act - ✔️✔️Requires federally funded hospitals to inform
adult patients in writing about their rights to make treatment choices ask make sure the
patient has a living will or power of attorney.
Responsibility - ✔️✔️the duties and activities that an individual is employed to perform.
A professional nurse's responsibili ties in a given role are outlined in a position
description describing the nurse's duties in client care and in participating as a member
of the nursing unit.
Authority - ✔️✔️the official power to act in areas in which an individual has been given
and accepts responsibility.
, Accountability - ✔️✔️refers to liability or individuals being answerable for their actions.
It involves follow-up and a reflective analysis of one's decisions to evaluate their
effectiveness.
Collaborative Care - ✔️✔️Nurses collaborate with other members of the healthcare
team to plan, provide, and evaluate patient care.
The primary goal of each member of the healthcare team is to promote and restore
health.
Example: Nurse consults with the dietitian for a patient who is not eating well or who
needs to lose weight.
Physicians - ✔️✔️primarily responsible for the diagnosis of illness and the medical or
surgical tx of that illness
Nurse Practicioner/Physicians's Assistant - ✔️✔️responsibilities usually depend on the
supervising physician and might include conducting physical examinations and rounding
on patients.
Physical Therapist - ✔️✔️seeks to restore function or to prevent further disability in a
patient after an injury or illness.
Respiratory Therapist - ✔️✔️trained in techniques that improve pulmonary (lung)
function and oxygenation.
Occupational Therapist - ✔️✔️assists physically challenged patients to adapt to
limitations (ADLs)
Speech Therapist - ✔️✔️trained to help hearing-impaired patients speak more clearly,
to assist patients who have had a stroke to relearn how to speak, and to correct or
modify a variety of speech disturbances in children and adults.
Dietician - ✔️✔️manages and plans for the dietary needs of patients, based on
knowledge about all aspects of nutrition
Social Worker - ✔️✔️counsels patients and family members and also informs them of
and refers them to various community resources
Unlicensed Assistive Personnel - ✔️✔️Help nurses provide direct care to patients. You
CAN NOT delegate any EAT to them. (evaluation, education, assesment, or teaching)
Pharmacist - ✔️✔️Responsible for providing drug therapy for positive client outcomes;
activities include drug information services, Client and health care staff education,
dispensing medications and client monitoring, adverse drug reaction reporting,
research, concurrent drug use evaluation, and consultative services in areas such as
pain management and nutritional support.
Decentralized Decision Making - ✔️✔️Decisions made at the staff level.
Advantages - Increased morale and improved interpersonal relationships among staff.
Staff members feel more important and are more willing to contribute. Also promotes
creativity in problem solving.
Advocacy - ✔️✔️Providing patients with the information they need to make decisions
and supports the patients in whatever decisions they make
Autonomy - ✔️✔️Autonomy refers to a person's independence. Represents an
agreement to respect a patient's right to determine a course of action. For example,
before surgery a patient is required to sign a consent form. The purpose of the consent
is to ensure in writing that the health care team respects the patient's independence by
obtaining his or her permission to proceed. Respect for autonomy becomes complicated
when the patient is a child or when he or she is cognitively impaired by disease, age, or
trauma. Although the health care team turns to whoever is identified as legally
responsible for the patient, the ethical goal remains to try to determine the best interests
of the patient from the patient's point of view.
Patient's Bill of Rights - ✔️✔️Informs patients about what they should expect during
their hospital stay
Patient Self-Determination Act - ✔️✔️Requires federally funded hospitals to inform
adult patients in writing about their rights to make treatment choices ask make sure the
patient has a living will or power of attorney.
Responsibility - ✔️✔️the duties and activities that an individual is employed to perform.
A professional nurse's responsibili ties in a given role are outlined in a position
description describing the nurse's duties in client care and in participating as a member
of the nursing unit.
Authority - ✔️✔️the official power to act in areas in which an individual has been given
and accepts responsibility.
, Accountability - ✔️✔️refers to liability or individuals being answerable for their actions.
It involves follow-up and a reflective analysis of one's decisions to evaluate their
effectiveness.
Collaborative Care - ✔️✔️Nurses collaborate with other members of the healthcare
team to plan, provide, and evaluate patient care.
The primary goal of each member of the healthcare team is to promote and restore
health.
Example: Nurse consults with the dietitian for a patient who is not eating well or who
needs to lose weight.
Physicians - ✔️✔️primarily responsible for the diagnosis of illness and the medical or
surgical tx of that illness
Nurse Practicioner/Physicians's Assistant - ✔️✔️responsibilities usually depend on the
supervising physician and might include conducting physical examinations and rounding
on patients.
Physical Therapist - ✔️✔️seeks to restore function or to prevent further disability in a
patient after an injury or illness.
Respiratory Therapist - ✔️✔️trained in techniques that improve pulmonary (lung)
function and oxygenation.
Occupational Therapist - ✔️✔️assists physically challenged patients to adapt to
limitations (ADLs)
Speech Therapist - ✔️✔️trained to help hearing-impaired patients speak more clearly,
to assist patients who have had a stroke to relearn how to speak, and to correct or
modify a variety of speech disturbances in children and adults.
Dietician - ✔️✔️manages and plans for the dietary needs of patients, based on
knowledge about all aspects of nutrition
Social Worker - ✔️✔️counsels patients and family members and also informs them of
and refers them to various community resources
Unlicensed Assistive Personnel - ✔️✔️Help nurses provide direct care to patients. You
CAN NOT delegate any EAT to them. (evaluation, education, assesment, or teaching)
