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NUR 101 ( LATEST 2024 / 2025 ) TEST 9 | GRADED A+ QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
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NUR 101 ( LATEST 2024 / 2025 ) TEST 9 | GRADED A+ QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
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Nur 101 Test 91. Bioethics
Answer
The branch of ethics concerned with the development and consequences of biologicaltechnology
2. Clinical ethics
Answer
Concerned with ethical problems "at bedside"
3. Principles of Health Care Ethics
Answer
Autonomy or self-determination
Beneficence
Nonmaleficence
Justice
Fidelity
4. Tort
Answer
A wrongful act or an infringement of a right (other than under contract) leading to civil legal
liability.
5. Assault
Answer
Threat or attempt to injure
6. Battery
Answer
Intentional offensive touching w/o consent or lawful justification.
,7. In order to prove malpractice, the plaintiff must prove
Answer
1) A provider-pt relationship existed between the plaintiff and defendant.
2) The defendant breached the duty owed to the pt.
3) The pt's injury is a direct result of the breach.
4) The pt accrued damages {physical/monetary} because of the injury.
8. Americans with Disabilities Act
Answer
Prohibits discrimination against the disabled
9. Pt Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
Answer
Law intended to increase the affordability and quality of health insurance.
10. Emergency MedicalTreatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)
Answer
"Anti-dumping" law that requires screening of ED pts/ stabilization before transfer.
11. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Answer
Protects pts from losing heath insurance r/t preexisting conditions when changing jobs. Sets
regulations regarding the release of pt information.
12. Pt Self-Determination Act
Answer
Requires health agencies to provide info to pts regarding advanced directives/ document
accordingly.
13. Social Security Act
Answer
, Created a trust fund for the est. of medicare/medicaid.
14. Controlled Substances Act
Answer
Regulate and control drug distribution of narcotics.
15. The NCBON's role-
Answer
Issues nursing licences Determines scope
Sets education standards Regulates nursing practice
MOST IMPORTANT- Protects pt and practice of nursing.
16. Never event
Answer
A preventable error, treatment of which is not reimbursed by Medicare and Medicaid.
17. Sentinel event
Answer
Error that results in pt injury or death
18. Unemancipated minor can give consent when-
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-R/t pregnancy
-STI treatment/info
-Has a child
-Outpatient
-Substance treatment
19. Virchow's triad of thrombosis
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