NUR 211
Nur 211, DTCC, Community Health
Exam Questions and Solutions
Emergency - Sudden, unforeseen events that threaten health or safety
Disaster - Little or no warning; Initially overwhelm available personnel and emergency
services; combined threat to life, public health, environment
Pandemic - Infection that spreads rapidly around the world
Emergency Preparedness - Plans to prevent, respond to, and recover from emergencies
Surge Capicity - Ability to rapidly meet increased demand for qualified personnel,
resources
Mitigation - Both before and after emergency occurs; Warning systems, insurance
Preparedness - before emergency occurs; nurses gain understanding of expected roles in
emergency; develop emergency plan ( designate meeting place)
Emergency Response - Implementation od preparedness plans; victims triaged, treat
ASAP; search and rescue operations, shelter for survivors, repairing utility infrastructures
Recovery - Return community to normal or create a new, safer normal; Rebuilding,
reemployment, repair, reconstitution of government operations
START TRIAGE - GREEN: WALKING WOUNDED
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YELLOW: RR: >30, RADIAL PULSE: PRESENT, MENTAL STATUS: FOLLOWS
COMMANDS, CAN NOT WALK
RED: RR<30, RADIAL PULSE ABSENT, OR PRESENT W/ MENTAL STATUS
CHANGE
BLACK: NO RESPIRATIONS
Disaster Zone: Hot - Initial site of incident; only personnel with appropriate personal
protective equipment allowed in hot zone
Disaster Zone: Warm - Decontamination
Disaster Zone: Cold - Decontamination victims are triaged and treated
Tort - Civil wrong committed against a person or person's property
Unintentional Tort - Negligence: actions deviate from what a reasonable nurse would
have done. example: a nurse left a patient on the bedpan too long
Professional negligence or malpractice - Elements: Duty, breach of duty, foreseeability,
causation, injury or harm
Actions did not follow standard of practice. Example: a nurse pulled out an IV too
quickly, which could result in a piece of the IV breaking off in patients body.
Statute of limitations - Amount of time that can pass between recognition of harm and
bringing of suit usually 2 years
Intentional Tort - Assault, battery, and false imprisonment. Standards of carr prohibiting
nurses from forcing clients to participate in a treatment against their will.
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Invasion of privacy. Example: viewing a patients chart not under your care, pulling back
covers without letting patient know.
State Nurse Practice Act - Components include: definition of nursing, requirements for
and exemption of licensure, penalty for practicing without a license, and licensure across
jurisdictions
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) - Conducts research on
nursing practice issues and establishes competency licensure examinations
American Nurses Credentialing Center - Provides credentialing programs to certify
nurses in specialty practice areas.
Informed Consent - Client's legal and ethical righs to be informed of, give permission for
procedure, treatment; must not be coerced, understanding essential
Competency for consent - assumed competent if over 18, not declared legally
incompetent or rendered temporarily incompetent
Consent in an emergency - Assumes participation of client in situations where consent
impossible, impractical to obtain
Child participation in healthcare decisions - Parent, guardian unless mature minor.
Persons under 18 can give consent if seeking treatment for pregnency, STD treatment, or
Drug treatment, or if emancipated minor (married)
Good Samaritan Laws - Encourage healthcare providers to help victims in an emergency;
Protect healthcare workers from potential liability; Nurse responsible for following
through with emergency care
NUR 211
Nur 211, DTCC, Community Health
Exam Questions and Solutions
Emergency - Sudden, unforeseen events that threaten health or safety
Disaster - Little or no warning; Initially overwhelm available personnel and emergency
services; combined threat to life, public health, environment
Pandemic - Infection that spreads rapidly around the world
Emergency Preparedness - Plans to prevent, respond to, and recover from emergencies
Surge Capicity - Ability to rapidly meet increased demand for qualified personnel,
resources
Mitigation - Both before and after emergency occurs; Warning systems, insurance
Preparedness - before emergency occurs; nurses gain understanding of expected roles in
emergency; develop emergency plan ( designate meeting place)
Emergency Response - Implementation od preparedness plans; victims triaged, treat
ASAP; search and rescue operations, shelter for survivors, repairing utility infrastructures
Recovery - Return community to normal or create a new, safer normal; Rebuilding,
reemployment, repair, reconstitution of government operations
START TRIAGE - GREEN: WALKING WOUNDED
NUR 211
,NUR 211
YELLOW: RR: >30, RADIAL PULSE: PRESENT, MENTAL STATUS: FOLLOWS
COMMANDS, CAN NOT WALK
RED: RR<30, RADIAL PULSE ABSENT, OR PRESENT W/ MENTAL STATUS
CHANGE
BLACK: NO RESPIRATIONS
Disaster Zone: Hot - Initial site of incident; only personnel with appropriate personal
protective equipment allowed in hot zone
Disaster Zone: Warm - Decontamination
Disaster Zone: Cold - Decontamination victims are triaged and treated
Tort - Civil wrong committed against a person or person's property
Unintentional Tort - Negligence: actions deviate from what a reasonable nurse would
have done. example: a nurse left a patient on the bedpan too long
Professional negligence or malpractice - Elements: Duty, breach of duty, foreseeability,
causation, injury or harm
Actions did not follow standard of practice. Example: a nurse pulled out an IV too
quickly, which could result in a piece of the IV breaking off in patients body.
Statute of limitations - Amount of time that can pass between recognition of harm and
bringing of suit usually 2 years
Intentional Tort - Assault, battery, and false imprisonment. Standards of carr prohibiting
nurses from forcing clients to participate in a treatment against their will.
NUR 211
, NUR 211
Invasion of privacy. Example: viewing a patients chart not under your care, pulling back
covers without letting patient know.
State Nurse Practice Act - Components include: definition of nursing, requirements for
and exemption of licensure, penalty for practicing without a license, and licensure across
jurisdictions
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) - Conducts research on
nursing practice issues and establishes competency licensure examinations
American Nurses Credentialing Center - Provides credentialing programs to certify
nurses in specialty practice areas.
Informed Consent - Client's legal and ethical righs to be informed of, give permission for
procedure, treatment; must not be coerced, understanding essential
Competency for consent - assumed competent if over 18, not declared legally
incompetent or rendered temporarily incompetent
Consent in an emergency - Assumes participation of client in situations where consent
impossible, impractical to obtain
Child participation in healthcare decisions - Parent, guardian unless mature minor.
Persons under 18 can give consent if seeking treatment for pregnency, STD treatment, or
Drug treatment, or if emancipated minor (married)
Good Samaritan Laws - Encourage healthcare providers to help victims in an emergency;
Protect healthcare workers from potential liability; Nurse responsible for following
through with emergency care
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