Legal Implications in Nursing Practice
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| Created by elected legislative bodies such as state legislatures and the U.S. congress | show 🗑
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| show | Nurse Practice Acts
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| Created by administrative bodies such as State Boards of Nursing when they pass rules and regulations | show 🗑
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| show | criminal laws
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| protect the rights of individual persons within our society and encourage fair and equitable treatment among people | show 🗑
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| show | legal guidelines for nursing practice
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| broad reaching civil rights act that protects the rights of disabled people. It's also the most extensive law on how employers must treat health care workers and clients infected with HIV | show 🗑
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| HIPAA | show 🗑
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| show | statutory law
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| show | Nurse Practice Acts
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| show | common law
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| show | medication errors and falls
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| This act allows an individual who is at least 18 years of age to make an anatomincal gift or organ donation: | show 🗑
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| When the RN stops to help in an emergency at the scene of an accident, if the injured party files suit and the RN's employing institution's insurance doesn't cover the RN, the RN would probably be covered by: | show 🗑
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| The legal definition of death that facilitates organ donation is cessation of: | show 🗑
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| Even though the RN may obtain the client's signature on a form, obtaining informed consent is the responsibility of the: | show 🗑
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| show | while the nurse is working within the scope of his employment
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| show | the order is an error, violates hospital policy, or would be detrimental to the client
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| show | Under the law, practicing RN's must follow standards of care, which originate in the Nurse Practice Acts, the guidelines of professional organizations, and written policies/procedures of employment institutions
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| show | staffing standards determine the ratio of RN's to clients, and if the RN is required to care for more clients than is reasonable, a formal protest should be made to the nursing administration
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| show | a competent adult can legally give consent to donate specific organs, and RN's may serve as witnesses to these decisions
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| show | RN's are client advocates and ensure quality of care through risk mngmt. and lobbying for safe nursing practice standards
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