NUR 172 exam 1 with correct answers
health care law - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Scope of practice
Public health/infection control
Consent
Advanced directives
Malpractice - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Type of negligence, any professional
misconduct, unreasonable lack of professional skill, non adherence
4 elements of malpractice - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Duty
Breach of duty
Injury
Causation
Standards of care - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔focuses on the recipient of care,
patient
Standards of practice - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔focuses on the provider.
National patient safety goals - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Identify patient
correctly (name and DOB)
Use medications safely (rights)
, Prevent infections
Improve staff communication
Identify patient safety risk to suicide
Prevent mistakes in surgery
Informed consent - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Provide patient with enough
information so they are able to make a decision.
Nurse can be a witness, make sure it's signed.
Dr is responsible to obtain consent
Unusual occurrence report → incident report - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Non
Judgemental, factual, not part of legal record.
Sentinel event - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Not related to patient's natural
course of illness (delay in treatment, pt fall, tissue necrosis) severe infiltrate.
*malpractice complication with sentinel event. Injury causing a graft to
patients IV site.
Code of ethics - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The principles that used in ethical
and moral decision making
Scope of practice for IV therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔OBN
Antibiotic = anti infection = antifungal
Initiate (first dose)
Maintain (administer/regulate)
health care law - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Scope of practice
Public health/infection control
Consent
Advanced directives
Malpractice - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Type of negligence, any professional
misconduct, unreasonable lack of professional skill, non adherence
4 elements of malpractice - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Duty
Breach of duty
Injury
Causation
Standards of care - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔focuses on the recipient of care,
patient
Standards of practice - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔focuses on the provider.
National patient safety goals - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Identify patient
correctly (name and DOB)
Use medications safely (rights)
, Prevent infections
Improve staff communication
Identify patient safety risk to suicide
Prevent mistakes in surgery
Informed consent - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Provide patient with enough
information so they are able to make a decision.
Nurse can be a witness, make sure it's signed.
Dr is responsible to obtain consent
Unusual occurrence report → incident report - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Non
Judgemental, factual, not part of legal record.
Sentinel event - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Not related to patient's natural
course of illness (delay in treatment, pt fall, tissue necrosis) severe infiltrate.
*malpractice complication with sentinel event. Injury causing a graft to
patients IV site.
Code of ethics - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The principles that used in ethical
and moral decision making
Scope of practice for IV therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔OBN
Antibiotic = anti infection = antifungal
Initiate (first dose)
Maintain (administer/regulate)
