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| law that affect the legal rights of private persons and corporations |
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| offense against general public, affects welfare of society as a whole |
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| process by which nurses make clinical decisions using the best available evidence, their clinical expertise and patient preferences |
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| negligent conduct of a professional person |
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| not acting in a reasonable or prudent manner |
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| focuses on recipient, describes outcomes that patients can expect to receive |
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| focuses on the provider and defines the activities and behavior needed to acheive patient outsomes |
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| written laws enacted by legislature |
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| private wrong, by act or omission, that can result in civil action by harmed person |
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| documentation of an incident that requires action because of potential or implied consequences |
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| primary sources of law include |
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| constitutional statues, administrative law, and common law (civil and criminal are directly related to nursing pracitce |
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| common torts in nursing practice related to iv: |
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| coercion of rational adult to place an IV cannula device is assault and battery |
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| duty, breach of duty, causation, harm |
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| breaches of duty related to IV |
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| delay in admin of meds. unfamiliarity w/ drug. inappropriate route of admin, failure to qualify orders, negligence in pt teaching |
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| approaches to quality management |
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| performance improvement (PI), continuous quality improvement (CQI), Total Quality Managemen (TQM) |
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| occupational risks assoc w/ IV |
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| bloodborne pathogens, needlestick injuries, abrasiona and contusions, chemical exposure, latex allergy |
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| 3 parts of a competency-based program include |
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| competency statement, criteria for learning, evaluation |
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| occupational risks accoc w/ iv (post test question) |
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| exposure to bloodborne pathogens, latex allergy, exposure to hazardous drugs |
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| the tool used to report critical incidents is |
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| the definition of standards of practice is |
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| defines activities and behaviors of the practitioner, needed to achieve patient outcomes |
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| a nurse finds a dry iv solution container, bag had been hung 1 hour earlier. nurse informs charge nurse and physician, instructed to complete unus occur reprt. nurse allows analysis of adverse patient events by: |
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| evaluating quality care and the potential risks for the injury to the patient |
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| a product evaluation is part of a nurses responsibility to ensure product integrity. ex of medicat device problems related to IV include all except |
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outdated medication
does include: defective tubing, misleading labeling, cracked or leaking bag |
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| the safe medical device act requires that medical device related deaths be reported to the: |
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| an agency that tracks and provides an avenue for reporting bloodborne exposures is: |
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| characteristics of performance improvement include all except |
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documenting quality of care received
DO inculde: availability of needed test, timeliness of which procedure,test, and treatment are provided, continuity of services provided |
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