Nr599 Final Exam Study Guide – Complete With
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1. Ethical Decision Making: -Process that requires striking a balance between science
and morality.
-Making informed choices about ethical dilemmas based on a set of standards
differentiating right from wrong.
2. American Nurses Association- Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive
Statements.: provides specific guidance for ethical decision making and provides a
valuable framework that can be used when working with HIT
3. Bioethical Standards: Autonomy, freedom, veracity, privacy, beneficence, and
fidelity are maximally appropriate to the health care setting.
4. Autonomy: The right to choose for himself or herself; respecting the clients
opinions, perspectives, values and beliefs.
5. Freedom: The ability of an individual to act independently, without coercion or
constraint in ones choice and action
6. veracity: Being completely truthful with patients; a patients right to truth.
7. privacy: The right to be left alone when you want to be, to have control over your
own personal possessions, and not to be observed without your consent
8. Beneficence: Actions performed that contribute to the welfare of others; Action of
doing good or right by and for the patient.
9. Fidelity: Right to what has been promised; keeping to one's promise.
10. Telehealth: Use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to
support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related
education, public health and health administration. Technologies include
videoconferencing, the internet, store-and-forward imaging, streaming media, and
terrestrial and wireless communications.
11. Telemedicine: Remote clinical health services
12. mHealth (Mobile Health): -The practice of medicine and public health supported
by mobile devices such as mobile phones, tablets, personal digital assistants and the
wireless infrastructure.
-The use of wireless communication to support efficiency in public health and clinical
practice.
13. Mobile Medical Applications (Apps): -Accessories to a regulated medical device
or are a software that transforms a mobile platform into a regulated medical device.
-Facilitates mHealth
14. Medical Devices: Any equipment, instrument, implant, material, or apparatus used
for the diagnosis, treatment, or monitoring of patients.
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Solutions
1. Ethical Decision Making: -Process that requires striking a balance between science
and morality.
-Making informed choices about ethical dilemmas based on a set of standards
differentiating right from wrong.
2. American Nurses Association- Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive
Statements.: provides specific guidance for ethical decision making and provides a
valuable framework that can be used when working with HIT
3. Bioethical Standards: Autonomy, freedom, veracity, privacy, beneficence, and
fidelity are maximally appropriate to the health care setting.
4. Autonomy: The right to choose for himself or herself; respecting the clients
opinions, perspectives, values and beliefs.
5. Freedom: The ability of an individual to act independently, without coercion or
constraint in ones choice and action
6. veracity: Being completely truthful with patients; a patients right to truth.
7. privacy: The right to be left alone when you want to be, to have control over your
own personal possessions, and not to be observed without your consent
8. Beneficence: Actions performed that contribute to the welfare of others; Action of
doing good or right by and for the patient.
9. Fidelity: Right to what has been promised; keeping to one's promise.
10. Telehealth: Use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to
support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related
education, public health and health administration. Technologies include
videoconferencing, the internet, store-and-forward imaging, streaming media, and
terrestrial and wireless communications.
11. Telemedicine: Remote clinical health services
12. mHealth (Mobile Health): -The practice of medicine and public health supported
by mobile devices such as mobile phones, tablets, personal digital assistants and the
wireless infrastructure.
-The use of wireless communication to support efficiency in public health and clinical
practice.
13. Mobile Medical Applications (Apps): -Accessories to a regulated medical device
or are a software that transforms a mobile platform into a regulated medical device.
-Facilitates mHealth
14. Medical Devices: Any equipment, instrument, implant, material, or apparatus used
for the diagnosis, treatment, or monitoring of patients.
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