NURS 200 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2026
TESTED ITEMS CORRECT RESPONSE SET
◉ Privacy: Answer: the rights of patients to keep personal
information from being disclosed.
◉ Confidentiality: Answer: protects private patient information once
it is disclosed in health care settings.
◉ Health Information Technology Act (HITECH): Answer: expands
principles extended under HIPAA, especially when a security breach
of personal health information (PHI) occurs.
◉ American With Disabilities Act (ADA): Answer: -civil rights statute
that protects the rights of people with physical or mental disabilities.
-prohibits discrimination and ensures equal opportunities for
people with disabilities in employment, state and local government
services, public accommodations, commercial facilities, and
transportation.
-reasonable accommodations enable person to perform essential
functions of a job.
,◉ Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA):
Answer: requires health insurance companies to provide coverage
for mental health and substance use disorder treatment.
◉ Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA)
intended to: Answer: -Require health insurance companies to
provide health care coverage for mental health and SUD
-Insurers may not discriminate or deny coverage to pts with mental
illness or SUD
-Protects pts and establishes care requirements
◉ Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA)
unintended to: Answer: -COST OFTEN TOO HIGH
-Suicide in hospital/healthcare settings
-Documentation increase for providers
◉ Patient Self-Determination Act(PSDA): Answer: -requires health
care institutions to provide written information to pts concerning
their rights to make decisions about their care, including their right
to refuse treatment and to formulate an advance directive.
◉ Advanced Directive: Answer: document developed by the pt that
instructs others to do tasks before, during, and after his or her
death; at minimum, includes statement of pts wishes if respiratory
,or cardiac arrest occurs and a copy of the pt's durable power of
attorney for health care(DPAHC).
Living wills: include information about a pt's end-of-life care.
DNR: Do Not Resuscitate orders
◉ Uniform Anatomical Gift Act: (UAGA): Answer: -provides the
foundation for the national organ donation system.
-Prohibited sale of organs, protects the providers involved in
donation, protects donors form liability.
-Revisited guidelines related to geography; pt need is now priority.
◉ Legal definition of restraint Answer: any manual method, physical
or mechanical device, or material or equipment that immobilizes or
reduces the ability of a pt to move freely, with a chemical restraint
including the use of medication to alter the behavior of a pt.
◉ Restraints can be used: Answer: 1. only to ensure the physical
safety of the pt or other pts
2. when less restrictive interventions are unsuccessful
3. only on the written order of a health care provider
◉ State boards of nursing Answer: educate the public and nurses as
the profession changes and regulate and disseminate information
, relating to nursing practice; the license all RNs in the state in which
they practice.
◉ Enhanced nurse licensure compact (eNLC): Answer: enables a
nurse to practice in multiple states under one license. Allows nurses
to provide telehealth care when working in one state and the patient
is in another state. Facilitates care when nurses cross state lines to
provide care during emergencies.
◉ SBN Answer: suspends, and/or revokes a license if a nurse's
conduct violates the Nurse Practice Act. must follow provide notice
and follow due process before revoking or suspending a license
◉ Notice Answer: means taking affirmative action to inform nurse
that charge had been made and is being investigated and that
reasonable efforts were made to notify the nurse of the time, date,
and place where action may be taken to restrict, suspend, or revoke
the nurse's license.
◉ Due process Answer: means the state is required to inform the
nurse of allegations and investigation process, including who is
being asked to provide information about allegations
◉ Informed Consent and Health Care Acts: Answer: Responsibility of
person performing procedure, may not be on opiods during time of
TESTED ITEMS CORRECT RESPONSE SET
◉ Privacy: Answer: the rights of patients to keep personal
information from being disclosed.
◉ Confidentiality: Answer: protects private patient information once
it is disclosed in health care settings.
◉ Health Information Technology Act (HITECH): Answer: expands
principles extended under HIPAA, especially when a security breach
of personal health information (PHI) occurs.
◉ American With Disabilities Act (ADA): Answer: -civil rights statute
that protects the rights of people with physical or mental disabilities.
-prohibits discrimination and ensures equal opportunities for
people with disabilities in employment, state and local government
services, public accommodations, commercial facilities, and
transportation.
-reasonable accommodations enable person to perform essential
functions of a job.
,◉ Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA):
Answer: requires health insurance companies to provide coverage
for mental health and substance use disorder treatment.
◉ Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA)
intended to: Answer: -Require health insurance companies to
provide health care coverage for mental health and SUD
-Insurers may not discriminate or deny coverage to pts with mental
illness or SUD
-Protects pts and establishes care requirements
◉ Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA)
unintended to: Answer: -COST OFTEN TOO HIGH
-Suicide in hospital/healthcare settings
-Documentation increase for providers
◉ Patient Self-Determination Act(PSDA): Answer: -requires health
care institutions to provide written information to pts concerning
their rights to make decisions about their care, including their right
to refuse treatment and to formulate an advance directive.
◉ Advanced Directive: Answer: document developed by the pt that
instructs others to do tasks before, during, and after his or her
death; at minimum, includes statement of pts wishes if respiratory
,or cardiac arrest occurs and a copy of the pt's durable power of
attorney for health care(DPAHC).
Living wills: include information about a pt's end-of-life care.
DNR: Do Not Resuscitate orders
◉ Uniform Anatomical Gift Act: (UAGA): Answer: -provides the
foundation for the national organ donation system.
-Prohibited sale of organs, protects the providers involved in
donation, protects donors form liability.
-Revisited guidelines related to geography; pt need is now priority.
◉ Legal definition of restraint Answer: any manual method, physical
or mechanical device, or material or equipment that immobilizes or
reduces the ability of a pt to move freely, with a chemical restraint
including the use of medication to alter the behavior of a pt.
◉ Restraints can be used: Answer: 1. only to ensure the physical
safety of the pt or other pts
2. when less restrictive interventions are unsuccessful
3. only on the written order of a health care provider
◉ State boards of nursing Answer: educate the public and nurses as
the profession changes and regulate and disseminate information
, relating to nursing practice; the license all RNs in the state in which
they practice.
◉ Enhanced nurse licensure compact (eNLC): Answer: enables a
nurse to practice in multiple states under one license. Allows nurses
to provide telehealth care when working in one state and the patient
is in another state. Facilitates care when nurses cross state lines to
provide care during emergencies.
◉ SBN Answer: suspends, and/or revokes a license if a nurse's
conduct violates the Nurse Practice Act. must follow provide notice
and follow due process before revoking or suspending a license
◉ Notice Answer: means taking affirmative action to inform nurse
that charge had been made and is being investigated and that
reasonable efforts were made to notify the nurse of the time, date,
and place where action may be taken to restrict, suspend, or revoke
the nurse's license.
◉ Due process Answer: means the state is required to inform the
nurse of allegations and investigation process, including who is
being asked to provide information about allegations
◉ Informed Consent and Health Care Acts: Answer: Responsibility of
person performing procedure, may not be on opiods during time of
