Unit 1 Key Terms Nursing 1

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Being responsible for one's actions and accepting the consequences of one's behavior; responsibility of health care professionals for their decisions, judgments, and acts.

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Accountability

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Formal recognition by an impartial body that an educational faculty or health care institution has met established quality benchmarks. In the U.S. there are two types of educational accreditation: institutional and specialized. The former recognizes the institution for having facilities, policies, and procedures that meet accepted standards. The latter recognizes specific programs of study within institutions for having met established standards.

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Accreditation

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an individual who pleads the cause of clients' rights

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Advocate

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intellectual and psychomotor skills

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Aesthetic knowledge

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Prohibits discrimination on basis of disability in employment, public services and public accommodations. Nurses educate clients to access public transportation, tele communication devices, supportive services.

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American disabilities act

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The only full-service professional organization representing the 2.2 million registered nurses in the U.S. It comprises 53 State Nurses Associations. The organization fosters high standards of nursing practice, promotes the economic and general welfare of nurses in the work environment, projects a realistic, positive view of nursing, and lobbies Congress and regulatory agencies about health care issues affecting nurses and the public.

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ANA

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Role includes (a) provider of care, (b) teacher, (c) counselor, (d) manager, and (e) member of the discipline of nursing.

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Associate Degree Nurse

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Independent functioning.

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Autonomy

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the moral obligation to do good or to implement actions that benefit clients and their support persons

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Beneficence

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a standard of care that is expected in the specific situation but that the nurse did not observe; this is the failure to act as a reasonable, prudent nurse under the circumstances

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Breach of duty

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a role that has traditionally included those activities that assist the client physically and psychologically while preserving the client's dignity

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Caregiver

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Having regard for, or giving attention to the needs of others. Involves a belief or value with ability and willingness to act.

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Caring

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a nurse who works with the multidisciplinary health care team to measure the effectiveness of the case management plan and monitor outcomes

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Case Manager

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a fact that must be proven that the harm occurred as a direct result of the nurse's failure to follow the standard of care and the nurse could have (or should have) known that failure to follow the standard of care could result in such harm

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Causation

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a person (or group) who initiates changes or who assists others in making modifications in themselves or in the system

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Change agent

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a person who engages the advice or services of another person who is qualified to provide this service; patient of a health care professional.

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Client

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an individual who pleads the cause of clients' rights

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Client advocate

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a formal statement of a group's ideals and values; a set of ethical principles shared by members of a group, reflecting their moral judgments and serving as a standard for professional actions

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Code of ethics

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A collegial working relationship with another health care provider in the provision of client care

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Collaboration

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the body of principles that evolves from court decisions

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Common law

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nurses identify client problems and then communicate these verbally or in writing to other members of the health team

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Communicator

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An idea

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Concept

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a group of related ideas, statements, or concepts. Freud’s structure of the mind could be considered a conceptual framework or model.

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Conceptual framework

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any information a subject relates will not be made public or available to others without the subject’s consent.

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Confidentiality

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deals with actions against the safety and welfare of the public / the body of law that deals with relationships among private individuals; also known as private law

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Criminal vs. civil law

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a cognitive process that includes creativity, problem solving, and decision making; the foundation for expanding nursing knowledge and the basis for developing sound clinical judgments within the framework of the nursing process. It is purposeful, self regulatory judgment resulting in interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and inference, as well as the explanation of the considerations (evidential, conceptual, methodological, criteria logical, or contextual) on which judgment is based.

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Critical thinking

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if malpractice caused the injury, the nurse is held liable for damages that may be compensated

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Damages

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the process of establishing criteria by which alternative courses of action are developed and selected

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Decision making

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making specific observations from a generalization

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Deductive reasoning

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the nurse must have (or should have had) a relationship with the client that involves providing care and following an acceptable standard of care

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Duty

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“how would we feel” – relating to a patient’s emotional state – opening our mind to imagine how it would feel and be supportive of patient in a therapeutic manner

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Empathy

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facts, science, can be taught and learned

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Empirical knowledge

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standards, codes, values, legal/ethical/moral decisions

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Ethical knowledge

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A system of moral principles or standards governing conduct.

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Ethics

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caring behaviors that reflect cultural values and beliefs

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Ethnocaring

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the unlawful restraint or detention of another person against his or her wishes

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False imprisonment

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a crime of a serious nature, such as murder, punishable by a term in prison

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Felony

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a moral principle which obligates the individual to be faithful to agreements and responsibilities one has undertaken

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Fidelity

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Law designed to protect health care providers who provide assistance at the scene of an emergency against claims of malpractice unless there was failure to follow standards of practice.

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Good Samaritan law

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involves extreme lack of knowledge, skill, or decision making that the person clearly should have known would put others at risk for harm

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Gross negligence

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a state of being physically fit, mentally stable, and socially comfortable; it encompasses more than the state of being free of disease

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Health

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The philosophy based on the belief that, in nature, entities such as individuals and other complete organisms function as complete units that cannot be reduced to the sum of their parts.

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Holism

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nursing practice that has as its goal the healing of the whole person

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Holistic nursing Care

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a nurse whose practice has deteriorated because of chemical abuse

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Impaired nurse

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making generalizations from specific data

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Inductive reasoning

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a client's agreement to accept a course of treatment or a procedure after receiving complete information, including the risks of treatment and facts relating to it, from the physician

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Informed consent

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based on knowledge and learning; 6th sense

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Intuition

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fairness

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Justice

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the quality or state of being legally responsible for one's obligations and actions and to make financial restitution for wrongful acts

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Liability

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mandatory process through which a government agency grants the right to provide certain services.

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Licensure

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the negligent acts of persons engaged in professions or occupations in which highly technical or professional skills are employed

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Malpractice

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focus on exploration of concepts such as pain, self-esteem, learning, and hardiness

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Mid level theories

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failure to behave in a reasonable and prudent manner; an unintentional tort

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Negligence

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1893, Defines standards for organized nursing services and education; Promotes studies in nursing service and education to meet changing needs; Accredits nursing education programs; Provides consultation, publications and cost analysis to service, schools and communities; Testing and guidance services to nursing programs.

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NLN

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the duty to do no harm

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Nonmaleficence

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1953 – Focuses on issues related to students education and practice

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NSNA

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the attributes, characteristics, and actions of the nurse providing care on behalf of, or in conjunction with, the client

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Nursing

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knowledge used by the nurse in the practice of nursing.

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Nursing Knowledge

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legislation requiring that every competent adult be informed in writing upon admission to a health care institution about his or her rights to accept or refuse medical care and to use advance directives

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Patient Self Determination Act

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gained through interpersonal interactions, product of experience

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Personal knowledge

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values internalized from the society or culture in which one lives

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Personal value

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an early effort to define phenomena and serves as the basis for later theoretical formulations

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Philosophy

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fields of study in which the central focus is performance of professional role (nursing, teaching, management, music).

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Practice Discipline

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an occupation that requires extensive education or a calling that requires special knowledge, skill, and preparation

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Profession

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Profession is a career that demands long term commitment and behaviors that foster individual growth, makes a contribution to the profession and society, personal recognition and rewards that include, but extend beyond, monetary compensation; Job is a series of tasks not r/t long range goals or real commitment. Is done for salary.

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Profession vs. Job

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a set of attributes, a way of life that implies responsibility and commitment

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Professionalism

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the specific accountability or liability associated with the performance of duties of a particular role or an obligation to complete a task

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Responsibility

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privilege or fundamental power to which an individual is entitled unless It is revoked by law or given up voluntarily

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Rights

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a technique one can use to look beneath the surface, recognize and examine assumptions, search for inconsistencies, examine multiple points of view, and differentiate what one knows from what one merely believes

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Socratic questioning

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detailed guidelines describing the minimal nursing care that can reasonably be expected to ensure high quality care in a defined situation (eg, a medical diagnosis or a diagnostic test)

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Standards of care

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descriptions of the responsibilities for which nurses are accountable

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Standards of clinical nursing practice

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The delivery of individualized nursing care to clients by a team led by a professional nurse

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Team nursing

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a civil wrong committed against a person or a person's property

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Tort’s

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a process by which individuals define their own value

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Values clarification

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something of worth; a belief held dearly by a person

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Values

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a moral principle that holds that one should tell the truth and not lie

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Veracity