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How does the nursing social contract allow for autonomy in the nursing profession? | The nursing social contract is an agreement between the nursing profession and society that ensures nurses will have proper training, act responsibility, and be mindful that society trusts the profession. |
Which assumptions are made within the ANA social policy statement to allow structure or a framework for a contract between the profession and society to allow trust? | -Humans are defined by their different contextual or cultural differences or experiences. -Humans exist with a unity of mind, body, and soul; therefore, all aspects of the human should be cared for. |
-- | -Public policy and health care delivery systems shape the well-being of society and the profession of nursing. -Health and illness are part of the human experience and are parts that make up the whole of a person, not separate entities. |
Which policy statement directs the nursing profession to conduct the nurse-patient relationship within the values and beliefs of both the patient and the nurse regardless of differences? | ANA's social policy statement |
Which questions are ethical or moral questions that may result when there is unrest or instability in the health care system? | -Who has the right to live or die? -Who decides the priority of a patient on the organ transplant list? |
-- | -Who should make the decisions about a patient's insurance covering birth control? -Should insurance companies be able to decide who gets coverage based on preexisting conditions? |
Which scenarios demonstrate forces that cause unrest, change, or reform in health care? | -An aging population and advances in technology or genetics -The closing of a rural chemotherapy clinic that decreases a patient's access to care |
-- | -Complex social situations such as poverty, violence, progressing or new diseases, and climate change -A shift from hospitalization after a surgery to having the surgery as an outpatient and going home the same day |
Which prudent guidelines would a nurse who is developing cultural awareness and sensitivity follow? | -Adjust interventions and expectations accordingly related to cultural sensitivity or awareness -Observe interactions of minority group members and learn from those patients and interactions |
-- | -Attempt to learn more about common culturally diverse groups or populations in the nurse's geographic location -Make an effort to not stereotype or make assumptions based on a patient's culture, religion, ethnicity, gender, or socioeconomic status |
Which scenarios show a breach or a potential breach in patient privacy and confidentiality? | -A nurse sends an unencrypted email on an unsecure server of a patient chart to the patient's primary health care provider. -A clinic nurse faxes a patient's record to the surgeon for review before seeing the patent. |
-- | The nurse inadvertently sends the wrong patient record; however, the correct record is resent. -A hospice nurse leaves a patient's home and charts outside using an unencrypted computer with password protection. However, the nurse did not log off. |
-- | The nurse places computer on the car and drives off. Once the mistake is realized, the nurse drives back to the location, but cannot find the computer. |
Which scenarios indicate that the nurse followed the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) social media guidelines? | -A nurse reports a coworker (who called their mutual coworker a derogatory name on social media) to the direct supervisor. -A nurse and her friends take a picture of their nursing unit at Christmas. |
-- | The nurse realizes that the full profile of a patient is visible in the background. The nurse chooses not to keep, share, or post the picture. Instead, the nurse takes another picture after work in front of the |
Which are benefits of social media or electronic media use by a nurse? | -A nurse posts class dates and times for a diabetic education course open to the public. -An IV pump video was developed by a nursing instructor and placed on the Internet for any nursing student who needs the information. |
-- | -A new nurse virtually meets an experienced nurse who becomes his mentor and helps him transition during difficult times in the first few years of his career. -A nurse teaches a hypertensive patient with high cholesterol how to log in to a patient |
-- | portal that gives the patient access to parts of the patient's health record such as laboratory work and vital signs. |