NR 599 EXAM SUCCESS: KEY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR A+
ACHIEVEMENT
Risk Mitigation
Strategy that help ensure best practices and avoid litigation and licensing issues.
Reduce the severity of litigation.
Ethics
Systematically examining varying viewpoints r/t moral questions of right or wrong. Guide
to making a decision.
Bioethical standards
Study of health care ethics. (autonomy, freedom, Veracity, privacy, Beneficence,
Fidelity)
Autonomy
The right to choose for himself. Respecting a clients opinion, perspective, values, and
beliefs.
Freedom
Ability to act independently w/o coercion or constraint in ones choice and action.
Veracity
truthfulness, honesty. Being completely truthful and honest with patients. (a pts right to
the truth)
Privacy
the right of people not to reveal information about themselves. Practice to maintain the
security and confidentiality of pt records.
Beneficence
Doing good or causing good to be done; kindly action. Promote the well being of others.
(Right by or for a pt.)
Fidelity
Faithfulness and loyalty and keeping promises.
Ethical Decision Making
, A framework to address complex and controversial moral questions. To make an
informed choice based on standards to differentiate between right and wrong. (relied
upon to protect pts)
Ethical Use of Social Networking applications?
Nurses need to maintain confidentiality, an obstacle with the increase of nurses with
mobile devices and wide spread of technology. Nurses need to know policy about
audio/video recording and whats on the internet is permanent record. Laws require
consent of all parties.
Casuistry
A specific ethical reasoning method that analyzes the facts of a case in sound, logical
and ordered or structured manner.
Point of care technology (POCT)
Testing and diagnosing at the patient's side anywhere the patient is. (Home, hospital,
clinic, ambulance) Immediate results can be downloaded directly to an EHR to reduce
errors.
Example of Biological devices
Example: Vaccines, blood/ blood components.
Biometric devices
Authentication devices that recognizes thumb prints, retinal patterns or facial patterns.
Example: thumb print unlocks for Omnicell.
Haptic devices
are input/output technology for interacting with our sense of touch and feel.
(ultrasounds, keyboards, smart watches.
Mobile health (mHealth)
The use of wireless communication to support efficiency in public health and clinical
practice
mHealth goal?
Share information between the mobile device and a patients electronic medical record.
& provided an accessible and convenient means for the user to interact with the health
care system.
Pros to mHealth?
ACHIEVEMENT
Risk Mitigation
Strategy that help ensure best practices and avoid litigation and licensing issues.
Reduce the severity of litigation.
Ethics
Systematically examining varying viewpoints r/t moral questions of right or wrong. Guide
to making a decision.
Bioethical standards
Study of health care ethics. (autonomy, freedom, Veracity, privacy, Beneficence,
Fidelity)
Autonomy
The right to choose for himself. Respecting a clients opinion, perspective, values, and
beliefs.
Freedom
Ability to act independently w/o coercion or constraint in ones choice and action.
Veracity
truthfulness, honesty. Being completely truthful and honest with patients. (a pts right to
the truth)
Privacy
the right of people not to reveal information about themselves. Practice to maintain the
security and confidentiality of pt records.
Beneficence
Doing good or causing good to be done; kindly action. Promote the well being of others.
(Right by or for a pt.)
Fidelity
Faithfulness and loyalty and keeping promises.
Ethical Decision Making
, A framework to address complex and controversial moral questions. To make an
informed choice based on standards to differentiate between right and wrong. (relied
upon to protect pts)
Ethical Use of Social Networking applications?
Nurses need to maintain confidentiality, an obstacle with the increase of nurses with
mobile devices and wide spread of technology. Nurses need to know policy about
audio/video recording and whats on the internet is permanent record. Laws require
consent of all parties.
Casuistry
A specific ethical reasoning method that analyzes the facts of a case in sound, logical
and ordered or structured manner.
Point of care technology (POCT)
Testing and diagnosing at the patient's side anywhere the patient is. (Home, hospital,
clinic, ambulance) Immediate results can be downloaded directly to an EHR to reduce
errors.
Example of Biological devices
Example: Vaccines, blood/ blood components.
Biometric devices
Authentication devices that recognizes thumb prints, retinal patterns or facial patterns.
Example: thumb print unlocks for Omnicell.
Haptic devices
are input/output technology for interacting with our sense of touch and feel.
(ultrasounds, keyboards, smart watches.
Mobile health (mHealth)
The use of wireless communication to support efficiency in public health and clinical
practice
mHealth goal?
Share information between the mobile device and a patients electronic medical record.
& provided an accessible and convenient means for the user to interact with the health
care system.
Pros to mHealth?
