Nursing Interventions and Ethics

Flashcards covering key concepts related to nursing interventions, implementation, evaluation, and healthcare ethics.

Clinical Practice Guidelines and Protocols

Recommendations based on scientific knowledge for managing patients with specific conditions, assuming all else is equal.

Standing Orders

Preprinted documents containing generic orders for specific diagnoses or clinical problems, facility-dependent.

Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC)

Offers a level of standardization to enhance communication of nursing care across settings and to compare outcomes.

Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)

Standard competencies in knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) to prepare future nurses.

Critical Thinking in Nursing

Allows nurses to consider the complexity of interventions, changing priorities, alternative approaches, and time constraints.

Pre- and Post-Intervention Assessment

Reassessing a patient before and after an intervention to avoid adverse events and revise the care plan as needed.

Direct Care

Includes activities of daily living (ADLs) assistance, life-saving measures, counseling, teaching, preventative interventions, and managing adverse reactions.

Indirect Care

Involves communicating nursing interventions, delegating, supervising, and evaluating the work of other staff members on the patient's behalf.

Achieving Patient Outcomes

Implementing interventions in a timely manner, applying principles of care coordination, and promoting patient adherence.

Evaluation in Nursing

Examining the results of care, comparing achieved outcomes with expected outcomes, recognizing errors, and understanding the patient's situation.

Nursing Sensitive Quality Outcomes

Preventable adverse outcomes such as severe pressure injuries, falls and trauma, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, and central line-associated bloodstream infections.

Basic Terms in Health Ethics

Include morals, values, bioethics, autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice, and fidelity.

Professional Nursing Code of Ethics

Guiding principles that include advocacy, responsibility, accountability, and confidentiality.

Values Clarification

Distinguishing among value, fact, and opinion to resolve ethical conflicts by clarifying one's own, the patient's, and coworkers' values.

Ethical Problems

Ethical dilemmas and moral distress that may be addressed by ethics committees.

Issues in Healthcare Ethics

Factors such as social media implications, quality of life considerations, care at the end of life decisions, and access to healthcare.

Objective Data

Data that is observed.