Nurs 142 Midterm Study Guide Graded A+

Standard 15 of Professional Performance Professional Practice Evaluation: {Ans: RN evaluates one's own and other's nursing practice}Provision 3 (3.1) Protection of the rights of privacy and confidentiality {Ans: Confidentiality and privacy are the top of the list of the patient rights that nurses must protect The nurse, as well as the physician, has a clear obligation to keep secret any information relating to a patient illness which she obtains during the performance of her professional duties unless the patient authorizes her to disclose this information or a competent core ordeals her to reveal it. This obligation is based first, on the ethics of her profession and 2nd, on the law.}NormativeEthics {Ans: addresses the questions of the ought, the four fundamental terms of which are right and wrong (human action), good and evil (human behavior)}The How of Nursing {Ans: the ways, means, methods, processes, and manner by which registered nurses' practice professionally.}Standard 7 of Professional Performance Ethics: {Ans: RN practices ethically}Provision 3 (3.3) Performance standards and review mechanisms {Ans: Demonstrate ongoing knowledge, skills, dispositions and integrity for competence in practice•Assume accountability for current, quality nursing practice according to national, state, and institutional standards}