Foundations

The HIPPA main focus is in keeping: - Patient's information in a secure office area A nurse coworker arrives 30 minutes late, smelling strongly of alcohol. The fellow nurses' legal course of action is to: - Report the contain of the nurse to the nursing supervisor A patient refuses to take his medications or to eat his breakfast. He is alert, mentally competent, and fairly comfortable. The nurse should: - Respect the patients right to refuse medications or food, because he is competent ...

advocate - the protection of human or legal rights and the securing of care for all patients based on the belief that patients have the right to make informed decisions about their health and lives caregiver - The provision of care to patients that combines both the art and the science of nursing in meeting physical, emotional, intellectual, sociocultural, and spiritual needs. As a caregiver, the nurse integrates the roles of communicator, teacher, counselor, leader, researcher, advocate, and...