| Who approves nursing education programs | State board of nursing |
| Least restrictive discipline ; a public reprimand that is kept on file | Censure |
| Discipline that places terms and conditions on licensee's file; licensee must comply with terms; may extend up to five years | Probation |
| Imposition that requires the nurse to stop practice for up to but not exceeding three years | suspension |
| After revocation, how long must a person wait to attempt to regain a license | 1 year |
| May be issued to the administrative hearing commission against any certificate or license holder that has caused offense | complaint |
| How long do citations, fines, and public reprimand remain attached to a license? | 3 years |
| How long does probation with or without suspension remain on your license? | 10 years after completion of probation |
| Detail the way tasks, responsibibilites, and authority are accomplished regarding patient care | Care delivery models |
| Updated version of primary care and team nursing, wherein an RN is parnered with one or more assistance who are cross-trained to perform many functions that were once delivered by several different hospital departments, include hospital settings and long term care | Partnership model |
| Delivery model that attempts to maximize fiscal outcomes without sacrificing quality; all care planned and coordinated by care manager to avoid delays, and unnecessary diagnostics and expenses, may be involved in hospital and insurance based quality improvement programs | Case management; collaborates with persons involved in all access of care, such as primary nurse, ancillary, physician, and client's family |
| Delivery care model, wherein one nurse provides all elements of care; may be utilized in critical care setting where once nurse is assigned one or two critical patients; also used in nightingale ere where patient's may have utilized home care. | Case method (nurse manager?) |
| Care delively model that is task oriented (ie, one nurse provides wound care for all patients and another provides medication to all patients | functional nursing |
| Care delivery model that provides total care to a group of patients. RN leads and directs the care that is provided by LPN's, and UAP | Team nursing |
| Total patient care | one nurse assumes all care for a client or small group of clients |
| Primary care nursing | RN or admitting RN assumes total care for the client. Expensive because care is provided by an RN rather than LPN or assistants |
| Factor that have been essential to the decrease and spread of disease and the decrease in mortality and morbidity | Nightingale's environmental theory |
| The father of modern surgery, discovered aseptic surgery | Joseph Lister |
| Discovered germ theory and cause of tuberculosis | Robert Koch |
| First US army nurse; treated mentally ill | Dorothea Lynde Dix |
| Angel of the battlefield; developed filed hospitals during civil war; who formed american association of red cross in 881. | Clara Barton |
| Workplace in which the cultural and social enviornemnt is fair, supportive, and workers feel safe and free from injury | healthy work environment |
| Environment that makes persons feel threatened or intimidated; prohibit quality performance; tire, drain, and frustrate employees | Hostile work environemnt |
| Committee that may help with hostile complaints | US equal employment opportunity commission |
| Whistle-blowers must/should have | substantial and sufficient documentation and legal advise |
| False whistleblower allegations ..... | ruin reputations and careers and could result in defamation of character suit against the whistleblower |
| Model bill that can be used by legislation to develop laws that provide legal recourse for those who bully at work | The Healthy workplace bill |
| Violence as defined by National institute for occupational safety and health | Violent acts directed toward persons at work or on duty; includes stalking, domestic violence, physical assaults, and threats of assault |
| treating people based on a class or category rather than on their individual qualities and abilities | discrimination |
| Discrimination may happen for.... | women, generation, handicaps, religion, and gene sequence |
| Title V11 of the 1964 act prohibits discrimination on the basis of | race, color, religion, sex, or national origin |
| Job stress as defined by the Centers for disease control and prevention | harmful physical and emotional responses that occur when the requirements of the job do not match the capabilities, resources, or needs of the worker. Can lead to poor health and injury |
| Determines how we respond to a situation | perception |
| Federal agency that oversees the safety of millions of American works and works to minimize workplace injuries | osha |
| Working in healthcare exposes workers to | physical, biological , chemical, radiation, and mental dangers |
| Result of working in a highly stressful work environment for long period of time; chronic stress; leads to quick temper, decreased decision making skills, guilt, anger, and depression | burnout |
| blood pressure goes up, heart rate increases, digestive system slows | fight or flight |
| Reaction to a real or perceived threat that leads to flight or fight response | acute stress |
| Physical, emotional, and spiritual exhaustion as a result of caring too much. | Compassion fatigue |
| Physical symptoms may include exhaustion, fatigue, headaches, colds, and the inability to sleep | burnout |
| Partly comes from the inability to match personal standards with what time and conditions let them deliver | stress that leads to burnout |
| Every incidence of violence should be reported to | immediate supervisor |
| Diseases that have been controlled via vaccines | measels, mumps, rubella, whooping cough, polio, chickenpox, diptheria, and tetanus |
| SARS | severe acute respiratory syndrome |
| Term used to describe the process involved in planning for a public health emergency | emergency preparedness |
| Public health challenges include | terrorism, bioterrorism, chemicaL EMEERGENCIES, NATURAL DISASTERS, contagious diseases |
| Environmental challenges include | radiation, pollution, and toxic substances |
| Occupational challenges may include | diversity, work fatigue, stress burnout, compassion fatigue, violence |
| The incorporation of environmentally friendly practices into health care | green health care |
| sudden holistic insight, not processed like logical thinking | Intuition |
| Highest concern for nursing safety includes | Lifting procedures and handling and needle-stick injuries |
| Involving substance recovery, the state board of nursing website includes | voluntary recovery programs, reporting procedures, resources for impaired nurses, as well as the names and license numbers and reasons why nurses have had license suspend or revoked |
| The current nursing curriculum prepares students to.... | work in acute care, long-term care, special units, and community care among other delivery methods |
| Assigning the nurse who doesn't complain to the more complicated patients is an example of | discrimination |
| Medical model of treatment focuses on.... | diagnosing and treating the physical aspects of a dysfunction with surgery, medicine, or general medical protocols. |
| Provides the foundation for develpng new treatments for many disease | Human genome project |
| Growing a fetus or embryo outside the human womb | ectogenesis |
| Be a balanced nurse by | taking care your physical, EMOTIONAL, PERSONAL, SOCIAL, SPIRITUAL, AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES. Balance is key |
| Beliefs that begin developing early in life and generally evolve from what a child is taught by parents, friends, culture, religion, school, and society in general; changes over a lifetime in healthy individuals | Personal value system |
| Abolition of slavery, right to vote, women's rights, rights of disable, right to die with dignity are examples of | how society has redefined human rights overtime |
| The law that compliments healthcare workers with those of equal education | Good samaritan |
| Those who are found guilty of the good samaritan law are usually,,, | those who could have helped those in need but did not |
| respondeat superior | describe the legal responsibility of an employer for acts of an employee. In other words, both the nurse who injures a patient and the nurse’s employer can be held liable for the nurse’s acts. |
| These guidelines, although based on laws, are not laws; | Ethics; they are policies that state what action is expected in specific situations. They are often more explicit than are laws in that they provide detailed procedures and clear directions. |
| What is a leader | “A leader is a person who, through leadership skills, is able to get others to follow [their] plan to achieve specific goals.” |
| What is a manager | A manager is someone who coordinates all of the activities associated with delivering nursing service.
Ability To Delegate
Organized
Implements Strategies
Detail Oriented
Anticipates Staffs Needs For Equipment And Supplies |
| Responsibilities of a nursing manager | planning, organizing, leading, and controlling |
| Leadership styles | Authoritative
Democratic
Permissive
Situational |
| The authoritarian leader
The authoritarian leader usually dictates what the work is and when and how it is to be done. | likes to keep a sense of complete control, they prefer diving direct orders as opposed to team input. They will use power and threats to make subordinates do what they want.
The authoritarian leader usually dictates what the work is and when and how it is to be done. |
| The permissive leader | The permissive leader trusts their team to make their own decisions. They offer little or no direction but let the teams creativity,resources and experience guide them. Permissive leaders will offer guidance and take responsibly when needed.
The permissive leader provides little direction to workers |
| The Democtatic leader empowers the team to be involved in the decision making process. They welcome new ideas,discussions and participation. This type of leader trusts the teams knowledge and skills. The democratic leader accepts responsibility for the actions of the team.
The democratic leader encourages participation in decision-making. | empowers the team to be involved in the decision making process. They welcome new ideas,discussions and participation. This type of leader trusts the teams knowledge and skills. The democratic leader accepts responsibility for the actions of the team.
The democratic leader encourages participation in decision-making. |
| The situational leader | chooses the type of leadership based on circumstances and goals in the workplace. It adapts to different situations. The key to this leadership style is flexibility and adaptability.
“The right leadership style could play a significant role in the retention of staff, job satisfaction and high productivity” |
| FIRST level of management: | team lead, charge nurse, manager of patient care unit; LP/VNs are most often first-level managers responsible for a specific patient unit. |
| Levels of management | First to third, with first being lowest and third being highest |
| Department of health and human services (maintains FDA) regulates what? | Food and drugs |
| Organization that ensures quality care | The joint commission |
| The nations leading science based service organization that protects public health. | CDC (Centers for disease control and prevention) |
| Works to protect Americans from safety and security threats both foreign and in the United States; tracks diseases around the world, responds to outbreaks like COVID19 and does research to save lives and protect all people from health threats whether human error or deliberate attack | CDC |
| Provides BEST PRACTICES information for health professionals at the federal, state and local level; regulates every area of healthcare in some way | CDC |
| Shares a critical interest in the safety and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals (with FDA), medical devices, and healthcare services. | CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid) |
| Manages the Administrative Simplification Standards of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 and legislation set national standards | CMS |
| Federal Law from 1996 that created standards to protect client sensitive information, help the industry flow smoothly, prosecute and stop fraud and abuse. | HIPPA (human information privacy and portability act) |
| Impacts all health care providers and health care plans that transmit health care information in electronic form
The provider can be liable for both civil and criminal penalties of up to $250,000 if found guilty of violations. | HIPPA and client privacy rules |
| Purpose: Protect the public’s health and safety through regulation of nursing education, licensure, and practice | Board of Nursing |
| Establish standards of safe nursing care; Monitor license compliance to state laws and take action against licenses of nurses who have exhibited unsafe nursing practice; Establish minimum standards for approved professional nursing programs | Board of Nursing |
| License renewal occurs
RN’s odd years
LPNs even years | Every 2 years;
RN’s odd years
LPNs even years |
| The systems and processes employed to uncover, mitigate and prevent risks in healthcare | Risk management |
| Requires employers to provide workers with a safe workplace that does not have any known hazards that cause or are likely to cause death or serious injury. | OSHA ( occupational safety and health administration) |
| Assures safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and provide training, outreach, education and compliance assistance. Sets standards for
employees to use safety equipment, personal protective equipment, and other devices and procedures provided or directed by the agency and necessary for their protection. | OSHA |
| Department of health and human services controls | FDA, OSHA, BOARD of Nursing, CMS, CDC, and Risk Management |
| Categories of nursing care for which LPN's are responsible (scope of practice) | assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation.* |
| LPN's contribute to diagnosis by | Reporting abnormal assessment data collected. |
| The LPN assists the RN in planning by | RN will create the plan of care while the LPN will assist help in writing the care plan and setting realistic/measurable goals. |
| Sets standards of nursing care and promotes continued competence via education and certification | NALPN (National Association of LPN’s)- standards of nursing care and promotes continued competence via education and certification |
| Offers IV therapy certification and Gerontology certification | NALPN |
| Determines which continuing education programs meet their criteria and guidelines for career advancement; Considered the “national clearing-house” of LPN’s continuing education programs. | NAPNES |
| Offers certifications in Pharmacology , Long Term Care , and IV Therapy | NAPNES |
| Organization that advocates for professional nurses (does not regard LPN's) | ANA (American nurses association) |
