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Leadership Week 4
Chapter 3
Question | Answer |
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advocacy | nurses role in supporting clients by ensuring that they are properly informed, that their rights are respected, and that they are the proper level of care. |
informed consent | legal process by which a client has given written permission for a procedure or treatment to be preformed. |
negligence | practice or misconduct that does not meet expected standards of care and places the client at risk for injury. |
defamation | false communication or communication with careless disregard for the truth with the intent to injure an individual's reputation. |
malpractice | failure of person with professional training to act in a reasonable and prudent manner. |
lateral violence | also known as horizontal violence/abuse. it occurs between individuals who are at the same level in an organization, such as: verbal abuse, undermining activities, sabotage, gossip, ostracism. |
incivility | an action that is rude, intimidating, and insulting. |
beneficence | care that is in the best interest of the client |
nonmaleficence | nurse's obligation to avoid causing harm to the patient. |
fidelity | keeping one's promise to the client about care that was offered. |
veracity | the nurse's duty to tell the truth |
autonomy | the ability of the client to make personal decisions, even when those decisions may not be in the client's best interest |