"Empowering Nurse Practitioners:
Leadership, Policy, and the Ethics of
Modern Healthcare"
What are the nurse practitioner core competencies? -
Answer Scientific foundations, leadership, quality,
practice inquiry, tech and info literacy, policy, health
delivery system, ethics, independent practice
What year was the NP role introduced? - Answer 1965
Who introduced the NP role and where? - Answer
Loretta Ford, Henry Silver at the Univ. of Colorado.
What is the LACE consensus model? - Answer Identified
CRNA, Midwife, CNS and NP.
What is the difference between licensure and
credentialing? - Answer For licensure, the *state
government* grants permission to engage in the
practice of that profession.
Credentialing protects the public by ensuring a
minimum level of competence. An *outside entity*
verifies the NP's schooling, experience and necessary
minimum requirements.
,Certification is a credential that provides title
protection.
**The ANCC is the only certifying body for APRN.
What is a credential that provides title protection? -
Answer Certification
What are HIPPA's 4 fundamental rights? - Answer 1. To
be educated about HIPPA's privacy protection
2. To have access to their own medical records
3. To request amendment of their health info
4. To require their permission for disclosure of personal
info.
What did the Health Information Technology for
Economic and Clinical Health Act do? (2009) - Answer
Incentive payments for sharing specific EHR data,
meaningful use incentives, basically the idea that EHR
can benefit patients, reduce costs, safer prescribing,
etc.
When are examples of when you can break HIPPA laws?
- Answer Intent to harm, info given to attorneys
involved in litigation, giving stuff to insurance
companies, answering court orders, meeting state
requirements for mandatory disease reporting,
child/elder abuse
, What did Tarasoff v. Regents determine? - Answer Duty
to warn potential victim of homicide.
What is the difference between Deontological Theory
and Teleological Theory? (ethics in decision making) -
Answer Deontological: an action's goodness is based on
the act itself
Teleological: an action's goodness is based on the
outcome
What 4 elements of negligence must be established to
prove malpractice? - Answer *Duty*: The NP had a duty
to exercise reasonable care.
*Breach of duty*: The NP violated applicable standard
of care.
*Proximate cause*: There's a relationship b/w breach in
the standard of care and the client's injuries.
*Damages*: "Permanent and substantial."
What scholarly activities should the NP engage in? -
Answer Publishing, lecturing/presenting, preceptorship,
continuing education
APRNs have a legal and ethical responsibility to be a
client advocate. This could be: - Answer Participation in
Leadership, Policy, and the Ethics of
Modern Healthcare"
What are the nurse practitioner core competencies? -
Answer Scientific foundations, leadership, quality,
practice inquiry, tech and info literacy, policy, health
delivery system, ethics, independent practice
What year was the NP role introduced? - Answer 1965
Who introduced the NP role and where? - Answer
Loretta Ford, Henry Silver at the Univ. of Colorado.
What is the LACE consensus model? - Answer Identified
CRNA, Midwife, CNS and NP.
What is the difference between licensure and
credentialing? - Answer For licensure, the *state
government* grants permission to engage in the
practice of that profession.
Credentialing protects the public by ensuring a
minimum level of competence. An *outside entity*
verifies the NP's schooling, experience and necessary
minimum requirements.
,Certification is a credential that provides title
protection.
**The ANCC is the only certifying body for APRN.
What is a credential that provides title protection? -
Answer Certification
What are HIPPA's 4 fundamental rights? - Answer 1. To
be educated about HIPPA's privacy protection
2. To have access to their own medical records
3. To request amendment of their health info
4. To require their permission for disclosure of personal
info.
What did the Health Information Technology for
Economic and Clinical Health Act do? (2009) - Answer
Incentive payments for sharing specific EHR data,
meaningful use incentives, basically the idea that EHR
can benefit patients, reduce costs, safer prescribing,
etc.
When are examples of when you can break HIPPA laws?
- Answer Intent to harm, info given to attorneys
involved in litigation, giving stuff to insurance
companies, answering court orders, meeting state
requirements for mandatory disease reporting,
child/elder abuse
, What did Tarasoff v. Regents determine? - Answer Duty
to warn potential victim of homicide.
What is the difference between Deontological Theory
and Teleological Theory? (ethics in decision making) -
Answer Deontological: an action's goodness is based on
the act itself
Teleological: an action's goodness is based on the
outcome
What 4 elements of negligence must be established to
prove malpractice? - Answer *Duty*: The NP had a duty
to exercise reasonable care.
*Breach of duty*: The NP violated applicable standard
of care.
*Proximate cause*: There's a relationship b/w breach in
the standard of care and the client's injuries.
*Damages*: "Permanent and substantial."
What scholarly activities should the NP engage in? -
Answer Publishing, lecturing/presenting, preceptorship,
continuing education
APRNs have a legal and ethical responsibility to be a
client advocate. This could be: - Answer Participation in
