QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
RN - CORRECT ANSWER have an expanded set of duties and more frequently work
in a hospital
RN - CORRECT ANSWER generally expected to do more critical thinking
LPN - CORRECT ANSWER provide more extensive patient care then CNA's
CNA - CORRECT ANSWER work under RN's and LPN's and provide the most basic
care
LPN - CORRECT ANSWER report changes in patent care to RN
responsibility - CORRECT ANSWER Carrying out duties associated with a particular
role.
Accountability - CORRECT ANSWER State of being answerable for one's actions—a
nurse answers to himself or herself, the patient, the profession, the employing institution such
as a hospital, and society for the effectiveness of nursing care performed.
privacy - CORRECT ANSWER has more to do with the actual patient, such as being
covered during procedures
privacy - CORRECT ANSWER individual exam rooms or spaces
consent - CORRECT ANSWER agreement or permission by the patient to do
something
, consent - CORRECT ANSWER informed: based on full disclosure of risks, benefits,
and alternatives
consent - CORRECT ANSWER "consent to treat"
Confidentiality - CORRECT ANSWER Act of keeping information private or secret; in
health care the nurse only shares information about a patient with other nurses or health care
providers who need to know private information about a patient to provide care for him or
her; information can only be shared with the patient's consent.
Confidentiality - CORRECT ANSWER need to know basis
documentation - CORRECT ANSWER Written entry into the patient's medical record
of all pertinent information about him or her. These entries validate the patient's problems and
care and exist as a legal record.
Documentation - CORRECT ANSWER if it wasn't charted then it didn't happen
Negligence - CORRECT ANSWER Careless act of omission or commission that
results in injury to another.
Negligence - CORRECT ANSWER not bathing patient
Assault - CORRECT ANSWER unlawful threat to bring about harmful or offensive
contact with another
assault - CORRECT ANSWER saying your going to hit someone
battery - CORRECT ANSWER Legal term for touching another's body without consent