CAPA/CPAN REVIEW QUESTIONS
|GUARANTEED ACCURATE
ANSWERS
Nursing Process - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Assessment-gathering
info/data; asking questions to gather this info/data
Diagnosis
Identification of Outcomes
Planning-future tense; patient is subject, achieve overall goal
Implementation- nurse is subject, present tense.
Evaluation
DNR vs AND - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ DNR can WITHHOLD
Palliative care
AND includes it
Ethical Principles - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Autonomy-freedom of
action chosen by individual
Beneficence- doing good
Nonmaleficence- do no harm
Justice- duty to be fair to all people
Veracity- truthfullness or accuracy
Fidelity- loyal or faithful
,Biot's respirations - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ rapid gasps followed
by apnea
Usually brain insults (ex. traumas)
=Increase ICP
Cheyne-Stokes respiration - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ gradual
increase and then decrease in breathing followed by apnea
Increase ICP
usually Cardiac problems
Kussmaul's breathing pattern - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ tachypnea
and hyperpnea
ex. DKA, metabolic acidosis patients
Statutory Law - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ legislative acts declaring,
commanding, or prohibiting something
written laws where you can go and reference it
ex. driving over the speed limit
Common Law - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ patient bill of rights
derived from principles rather than rules and regulations
Civil Law - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Based on rules and
regulations
,Court action lawsuits (most common)
Wrong doing
Tort Law - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ wrongful doing
involves compensation to those wrongfully injured
assault/battery/negligence; alarm silencing
Criminal Law - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Harmful or offensive to
society as a whole
ex. practicing nursing/medicine without a license; harming patients on
purpose
Informed consent** - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Consent obtained
after the patient has been fully informed by the physician about the risks
and benefits of the treatment, alternatives, and consequences of no
treatment
*can be withdrawn at any time; even at the last second
*If signing after narcotic/benzo given-must wait at least 1/2 the half-life
of the drug
*Is the patient knowledgeable, willing, competent
Informed Consent (cont)** - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Competent
to Sign: legal adult, minors with parent/guardian, emancipated minor
(married or in armed forces).
Exceptions: pt is unable to give consent and is a threat to life/emergent
(IMPLIED CONSENT)
, **Must have documentation of emergency in staff notes
**Malpractice - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Elements needed to claim
medical malpractice:
Duty owed patient
Breach of duty owed patient
Causation - most difficult to prove
Injury/Damages
Intentional Torts - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Violating patient rights;
No actual harm necessary.
3 most common:
Assault-place person in fear of being touched
Battery-Touch without permission
False imprisonment-unjustified detention
Intentional Quasi Torts - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ No intent to
injure or cause distress to another person.
Ex: Patient abandonment, defamation of character, invasion of privacy,
breach of confidentiality
**Staffing Ratios - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Staffing ratios see pg.
864
ISO patients 1:1
|GUARANTEED ACCURATE
ANSWERS
Nursing Process - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Assessment-gathering
info/data; asking questions to gather this info/data
Diagnosis
Identification of Outcomes
Planning-future tense; patient is subject, achieve overall goal
Implementation- nurse is subject, present tense.
Evaluation
DNR vs AND - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ DNR can WITHHOLD
Palliative care
AND includes it
Ethical Principles - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Autonomy-freedom of
action chosen by individual
Beneficence- doing good
Nonmaleficence- do no harm
Justice- duty to be fair to all people
Veracity- truthfullness or accuracy
Fidelity- loyal or faithful
,Biot's respirations - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ rapid gasps followed
by apnea
Usually brain insults (ex. traumas)
=Increase ICP
Cheyne-Stokes respiration - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ gradual
increase and then decrease in breathing followed by apnea
Increase ICP
usually Cardiac problems
Kussmaul's breathing pattern - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ tachypnea
and hyperpnea
ex. DKA, metabolic acidosis patients
Statutory Law - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ legislative acts declaring,
commanding, or prohibiting something
written laws where you can go and reference it
ex. driving over the speed limit
Common Law - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ patient bill of rights
derived from principles rather than rules and regulations
Civil Law - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Based on rules and
regulations
,Court action lawsuits (most common)
Wrong doing
Tort Law - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ wrongful doing
involves compensation to those wrongfully injured
assault/battery/negligence; alarm silencing
Criminal Law - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Harmful or offensive to
society as a whole
ex. practicing nursing/medicine without a license; harming patients on
purpose
Informed consent** - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Consent obtained
after the patient has been fully informed by the physician about the risks
and benefits of the treatment, alternatives, and consequences of no
treatment
*can be withdrawn at any time; even at the last second
*If signing after narcotic/benzo given-must wait at least 1/2 the half-life
of the drug
*Is the patient knowledgeable, willing, competent
Informed Consent (cont)** - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Competent
to Sign: legal adult, minors with parent/guardian, emancipated minor
(married or in armed forces).
Exceptions: pt is unable to give consent and is a threat to life/emergent
(IMPLIED CONSENT)
, **Must have documentation of emergency in staff notes
**Malpractice - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Elements needed to claim
medical malpractice:
Duty owed patient
Breach of duty owed patient
Causation - most difficult to prove
Injury/Damages
Intentional Torts - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Violating patient rights;
No actual harm necessary.
3 most common:
Assault-place person in fear of being touched
Battery-Touch without permission
False imprisonment-unjustified detention
Intentional Quasi Torts - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ No intent to
injure or cause distress to another person.
Ex: Patient abandonment, defamation of character, invasion of privacy,
breach of confidentiality
**Staffing Ratios - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Staffing ratios see pg.
864
ISO patients 1:1
