health care law - correct answer ✔✔Scope of practice
Public health/infection control
Consent
Advanced directives
Malpractice - correct answer ✔✔Type of negligence, any professional misconduct, unreasonable lack of
professional skill, non adherence
4 elements of malpractice - correct answer ✔✔Duty
Breach of duty
Injury
Causation
Standards of care - correct answer ✔✔focuses on the recipient of care, patient
Standards of practice - correct answer ✔✔focuses on the provider.
National patient safety goals - correct answer ✔✔Identify patient correctly (name and DOB)
Use medications safely (rights)
Prevent infections
Improve staff communication
Identify patient safety risk to suicide
Prevent mistakes in surgery
Informed consent - correct answer ✔✔Provide patient with enough information so they are able to
make a decision.
, Nurse can be a witness, make sure it's signed.
Dr is responsible to obtain consent
Unusual occurrence report → incident report - correct answer ✔✔Non Judgemental, factual, not part of
legal record.
Sentinel event - correct answer ✔✔Not related to patient's natural course of illness (delay in treatment,
pt fall, tissue necrosis) severe infiltrate. *malpractice complication with sentinel event. Injury causing a
graft to patients IV site.
Code of ethics - correct answer ✔✔The principles that used in ethical and moral decision making
Scope of practice for IV therapy - correct answer ✔✔OBN
Places where LPN can start an IV→ antecubital to hand
Just culture - correct answer ✔✔Reporting healthcare errors without punishment. Nurse still to be held
accountable for actions! Emphasis on correcting flows in the system and preventing future errors.
Empowers staff to participate in reporting errors without fear of punishment. Nurse's legal, ethical and
professional responsibility to participate to report error.
Patient self determination act - correct answer ✔✔Health care law that gives patients the right to
choose if they want to have the procedure done even if recommended by the doctor.
LPN can reduce risk to IV therapy by - correct answer ✔✔Six rights of administration
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