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1. Standards:: communicate the EXPECTATIONS of safe and effective nursing practice within the scope of the
practice. (regulated by the Board of Nursing)
2. Algorithms:: a stepwise decision-making flowchart for a specific care process or processes. Algorithms guide
the clinician through the "if, then" decision making process
3. Practice Guidelines:: usually created by an expert panel and developed by a professional organization.
Typically written in text prose style rather than a flowchart.
4. Protocols:: a common tool in research studies. Protocols are more directive and rigid than guidelines, and
providers are not supposed to vary from a protocol. Built in alerts signal the provider to potentially serious problems.
5. What is the AACN and what does it do?: The AACN is the American Association of Critical-Care
Nurses, most closely associated with critical care nurses. The world's largest specialty nursing organization created in
1969. Develops and administers many critical care specialty certifications examination for registered nurses. Created
the beacon of excellence reward for exceptional care through improved outcomes and greater overall satisfaction.
6. Nursing process: what is it?: Assess, Diagnose, Planning, Implementing, Evaluating
7. Components of evidence-based practice:: Evidence-based nursing practice considers the BEST
RESEARCH EVIDENCE on the care topic, along with CLINICAL EXPERTISE of the nurse, and PATIENT PREFERENCE. AANC
has promulgated several EBP summaries in the form of a "practice alert"
8. Respect for persons/autonomy:: honor the patients right to autonomy or to self-determine a course
of action without coercion or undue interference from others.
9. Beneficence and non-maleficence:: actions that maximize good and minimize harm to the patient,
often in a delicate balance.
10. Veracity:: the quality of being truthful, a principle that underlies a trusting relationship between nurse and
patient
11. Fidelity:: an essential aspect of nursing, is the quality of keeping commitments and includes commitments to
confidentiality and privacy; it is based on the virtue of caring.
12. Justice:: equitable distribution of limited resources (usually organs for transplant, access to healthcare, which
is not a constitutional right)
13. 8 Steps in the ethical decision making model:: 1. Identify health problems
2. Define the ethical issue(s)
3. Gather additional information (contextual data, useful information)
4. Identify the stakeholders and delineate the decision-maker
5. Examine ethical norms and other relevant norms (personal values, beliefs, moral convictions of all involved in the
decision process should be examined as they may inappropriately influence decisions away from the values and
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preferences of the patient)
6. Explore alternative options
7. Implement decisions/Act
8. Evaluate and modify actions
14. Torts:: civil lawsuits based on unintentional acts (failure to act or negligence that results in harm) or intentiona
acts, such as assault, battery, or defamation.
15. Ordinary Negligence:: failing to act as a reasonably prudent person would under similar circumstances:
1) duty to another person 2) breach of that duty 3) harm that would not have occurred in the absence of the breach
(causation), 4) damages that have a monetary value
16. Professional Malpractice:: malpractice requires the alleged wrongdoer to have special standing as
professional
17. Breach:: failure to act within applicable standards of care
18. Professional Malpractice and the Nursing Process:: • Assessment failure: failure to assess
and analyze the level of care needed by the patient
• Assessment failure: failure to ascertain a patients wishes with regard to self-determination (pay attn. to patient
wishes)
• Implementation failure: failure to take appropriate action and failure to document
• Implementation failure: failure to preserve patient privacy and confidentiality
• Evaluation failure: failure to act as a patient advocate
19. Wrongful death:: negligence action in which the harm is the actual death of the individual
20. Assault:: any intentional act that creates reasonable fear of immediate harmful or offensive contact
21. Battery:: any intentional act that brings about actual harmful or offensive contact
22. Principles of adult education:: a. Adults learn best through: lived experiences and motivation to learn
is internal and problem-oriented focusing on life events.
b. Andragogy: adult learning theory name
c. Adults tend to have a strong sense of: self concept and are goal oriented learners...they like to make their own
decisions.
23. Ethics:: a generic term for the reasoned inquiry and understanding of a moral life.
24. Morals:: traditions or belief about what is right or wrong in human behavior. Standards of moral principles,
rules, virtues, rights and responsibilities.
25. Ethical dilemma:: Hard to differentiate between what is most right
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1. Standards:: communicate the EXPECTATIONS of safe and effective nursing practice within the scope of the
practice. (regulated by the Board of Nursing)
2. Algorithms:: a stepwise decision-making flowchart for a specific care process or processes. Algorithms guide
the clinician through the "if, then" decision making process
3. Practice Guidelines:: usually created by an expert panel and developed by a professional organization.
Typically written in text prose style rather than a flowchart.
4. Protocols:: a common tool in research studies. Protocols are more directive and rigid than guidelines, and
providers are not supposed to vary from a protocol. Built in alerts signal the provider to potentially serious problems.
5. What is the AACN and what does it do?: The AACN is the American Association of Critical-Care
Nurses, most closely associated with critical care nurses. The world's largest specialty nursing organization created in
1969. Develops and administers many critical care specialty certifications examination for registered nurses. Created
the beacon of excellence reward for exceptional care through improved outcomes and greater overall satisfaction.
6. Nursing process: what is it?: Assess, Diagnose, Planning, Implementing, Evaluating
7. Components of evidence-based practice:: Evidence-based nursing practice considers the BEST
RESEARCH EVIDENCE on the care topic, along with CLINICAL EXPERTISE of the nurse, and PATIENT PREFERENCE. AANC
has promulgated several EBP summaries in the form of a "practice alert"
8. Respect for persons/autonomy:: honor the patients right to autonomy or to self-determine a course
of action without coercion or undue interference from others.
9. Beneficence and non-maleficence:: actions that maximize good and minimize harm to the patient,
often in a delicate balance.
10. Veracity:: the quality of being truthful, a principle that underlies a trusting relationship between nurse and
patient
11. Fidelity:: an essential aspect of nursing, is the quality of keeping commitments and includes commitments to
confidentiality and privacy; it is based on the virtue of caring.
12. Justice:: equitable distribution of limited resources (usually organs for transplant, access to healthcare, which
is not a constitutional right)
13. 8 Steps in the ethical decision making model:: 1. Identify health problems
2. Define the ethical issue(s)
3. Gather additional information (contextual data, useful information)
4. Identify the stakeholders and delineate the decision-maker
5. Examine ethical norms and other relevant norms (personal values, beliefs, moral convictions of all involved in the
decision process should be examined as they may inappropriately influence decisions away from the values and
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preferences of the patient)
6. Explore alternative options
7. Implement decisions/Act
8. Evaluate and modify actions
14. Torts:: civil lawsuits based on unintentional acts (failure to act or negligence that results in harm) or intentiona
acts, such as assault, battery, or defamation.
15. Ordinary Negligence:: failing to act as a reasonably prudent person would under similar circumstances:
1) duty to another person 2) breach of that duty 3) harm that would not have occurred in the absence of the breach
(causation), 4) damages that have a monetary value
16. Professional Malpractice:: malpractice requires the alleged wrongdoer to have special standing as
professional
17. Breach:: failure to act within applicable standards of care
18. Professional Malpractice and the Nursing Process:: • Assessment failure: failure to assess
and analyze the level of care needed by the patient
• Assessment failure: failure to ascertain a patients wishes with regard to self-determination (pay attn. to patient
wishes)
• Implementation failure: failure to take appropriate action and failure to document
• Implementation failure: failure to preserve patient privacy and confidentiality
• Evaluation failure: failure to act as a patient advocate
19. Wrongful death:: negligence action in which the harm is the actual death of the individual
20. Assault:: any intentional act that creates reasonable fear of immediate harmful or offensive contact
21. Battery:: any intentional act that brings about actual harmful or offensive contact
22. Principles of adult education:: a. Adults learn best through: lived experiences and motivation to learn
is internal and problem-oriented focusing on life events.
b. Andragogy: adult learning theory name
c. Adults tend to have a strong sense of: self concept and are goal oriented learners...they like to make their own
decisions.
23. Ethics:: a generic term for the reasoned inquiry and understanding of a moral life.
24. Morals:: traditions or belief about what is right or wrong in human behavior. Standards of moral principles,
rules, virtues, rights and responsibilities.
25. Ethical dilemma:: Hard to differentiate between what is most right
