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NFDN 1001 Final Exam Questions With Correct Detailed Answers.
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Continuing competency - ANSWER- The ongoing ability of a registered nurse to integrate and apply the knowledge, skills, judgment, and personal attributes required to practice safely and ethically in a designated role and setting Health Professions Act (HPA) - ANSWER- -Requires all health professional colleges to follow common rules to investigate complaints and set educational and practice standards for registered members -Regulates the standards health professionals must follow -Intended to protect the public by ensuring only competent,ethical professionals practice in health care settings Why is the Health Professions Act Important? - ANSWER- Public will have a better understanding of the accountability of health professionals and their regulatory colleges through common processes to register health professionals, investigate and resolve complaints and discipline practitioners What are the parts of the Health Professions Act? - ANSWER- 1-9: common to all of the Health Professions; establishment of colleges, registration and continuing competence, investigation of complaints and protection of professional titles Part 10: profession specific Definition of Standards of Care - ANSWER- The law requires a medical practitioner to exercise the care and skill that could reasonably be expected of a normal, prudent practitioner of the same experience and standing 4 elements of negligence - ANSWER- 1) the defendant must owe the plaintiff a duty of care
Intentional Torts: Battery - ANSWER- Intentional physical contact with a person without that persons consent. Intentional Torts: Invasion of Privacy - ANSWER- Protects you from unwanted intrusion into your private life The nurses duty requires confidential info not to be shared with anyone else except on a need-to-know basis Difference between assault and battery - ANSWER- The nurse threatens to give a patient an injection without the patients consent it is assault, if the nurse actually gives the injection it is battery Intentional Torts: False Imprisonment - ANSWER- The inappropriate or unjustified use of restraints, confinement against ones will Definition of Nursing Process - ANSWER- A systematic and rational method of planning and providing patient care organized around a senses of phases and facilitates evidence-informed and ethical practice What are the 5 phases of the nursing process? - ANSWER- assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, implementation, evaluation Nursing Process: Assessment - ANSWER- Collect, organize, validate and document data Goal is to gather sufficient information that results in a comprehensive understanding of the patients situation Entails gathering data and compiling a health history through patient interviews, a physical examination, and analysis of diagnostic and laboratory results as well as other sources of data such as health records and research subjective data - ANSWER- things a person tells you about that you cannot observe through your senses; symptoms objective data - ANSWER- information that is seen, heard, felt, or smelled by an observer; signs 4 ways to collect data - ANSWER- 1) conduct interview
Medical diagnosis - ANSWER- Relates primarily to the disease process, or pathology, or condition and head implications for medical treatment. Nursing Diagnosis - ANSWER- A clinical judgment that describes the patients response to actual and potential health problems To determine this a nurse listens to the patients story, looks for patterns in the data, and considers how these relate to the big picture 4 levels of nursing diagnosis - ANSWER- 1) an actual diagnosis
Effective discharge planning - ANSWER- Begins in the assessment phase when the nurse identifies the complexity of the patients situation and the need for services of other health professionals Implementation phase - ANSWER- Nurse makes an intentional effort to achieve the goals related to the patients health status and document the care provided Involves reassessing the patient, determining in what ways the nurse needs assistance, implementing the nursing interventions, supervising any delegated care, and documenting all the nursing activities Implementation skills - ANSWER- Psychomotor dexterity Therapeutic communication techniques Analysis of similar clinical events Ability to articulate concepts Evaluation phase - ANSWER- Occurs when the nurse reviews and measures whether the care goals were met, identifies any unintended outcomes, and determines if any changes to the plan are required to accomplish any unmet needs Scopes of practice - ANSWER- Refers to those activities that nurses are educated and legally authorized to perform Some activities Include: medication administration, insertion of instruments or tubes into the body and administration of oxygen or blood products Documentation - ANSWER- "Any written or electronically generated information about a client that describes the care or service provided to that client- and is an integral part of nursing" Documentation Guidelines - ANSWER- content, timing, format, accountability, confidentiality SMART goals - ANSWER- Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely SMART: Specific - ANSWER- Describes the desired patient response or behaviour. Specific to your patient. SMART: Measurable - ANSWER- Use concrete and specific language to describe changes in behaviour or progress with respect to the goal SMART: Achievable - ANSWER- Assumes that the appropriate resources are available and an adequate amount of time is allocated for the goal to be completed SMART: Realistic - ANSWER- Longer goals are divided into smaller tasks that must be accomplished in sequential order
SMART: Timely - ANSWER- Describes the amount of time allotted to either achieving the goal or to when the process toward the goal will be reviewed; works best for short- term goals Care plans - ANSWER- Documents that outline the care that is provided for the patient Holistic and has a nursing diagnosis, a nursing intervention and a nursing outcome that is patient-focused Personal Protective Equipment - ANSWER- Specialized clothing or equipment, worn by an employee for protection against infectious materials (as defined by OSHA). Infectious agents (pathogens) - ANSWER- bacteria, virus, fungi, protozoa Most commonly used PPE in health care - ANSWER- Gloves