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NUR 172 exam 1 Questions and Correct
Answers
Question: health care law
Answer: Scope of practice
Public health/infection control
Consent
Advanced directives
Question: Malpractice
Answer: Type of negligence, any professional misconduct, unreasonable
lack of professional skill, non adherence
Question: 4 elements of malpractice
Answer: Duty
Breach of duty
Injury
Causation
Question: Standards of care
Answer: focuses on the recipient of care, patient
Question: Standards of practice
Answer: focuses on the provider.
Question: National patient safety goals
Answer: Identify patient correctly (name and DOB)
Use medications safely (rights)
Prevent infections
Improve staff communication
Pretest - Stuvia US
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Identify patient safety risk to suicide
Prevent mistakes in surgery
Question: Informed consent
Answer: 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
Question: Unusual occurrence report → incident report
Answer: Non Judgemental, factual, not part of legal record.
Question: Sentinel event
Answer: 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.
Question: Code of ethics
Answer: The principles that used in ethical and moral decision making
Question: Scope of practice for IV therapy
Answer: OBN
Antibiotic = anti infection = antifungal
Initiate (first dose)
Maintain (administer/regulate)
IVPB = secondary = intermittent infusion (IV piggy back)
TPN
PCA
PICC
Places where LPN can start an IV→ antecubital to hand
Question: Just culture
Pretest - Stuvia US
NUR 172 exam 1 Questions and Correct
Answers
Question: health care law
Answer: Scope of practice
Public health/infection control
Consent
Advanced directives
Question: Malpractice
Answer: Type of negligence, any professional misconduct, unreasonable
lack of professional skill, non adherence
Question: 4 elements of malpractice
Answer: Duty
Breach of duty
Injury
Causation
Question: Standards of care
Answer: focuses on the recipient of care, patient
Question: Standards of practice
Answer: focuses on the provider.
Question: National patient safety goals
Answer: Identify patient correctly (name and DOB)
Use medications safely (rights)
Prevent infections
Improve staff communication
Pretest - Stuvia US
, 2
Identify patient safety risk to suicide
Prevent mistakes in surgery
Question: Informed consent
Answer: 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
Question: Unusual occurrence report → incident report
Answer: Non Judgemental, factual, not part of legal record.
Question: Sentinel event
Answer: 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.
Question: Code of ethics
Answer: The principles that used in ethical and moral decision making
Question: Scope of practice for IV therapy
Answer: OBN
Antibiotic = anti infection = antifungal
Initiate (first dose)
Maintain (administer/regulate)
IVPB = secondary = intermittent infusion (IV piggy back)
TPN
PCA
PICC
Places where LPN can start an IV→ antecubital to hand
Question: Just culture
Pretest - Stuvia US
