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legal dimensions np role

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show statutory law established by state's Board of Nursing; defines NP's title protection, scope of practice, restrictions of practice, education,certification, grounds for discipline, etc  
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What other components may be included in the Nurse Practice Act?   show
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What is a Nurse Practice Act?   show
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show need for collaborative agreement with MD, oversight board, prescriptive ability  
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show interstate agreement for advanced nursing practice to reduce state-to-state discrepancies in nursing requirements to practice; developmed by NCSBN  
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show establishes the foundation of the APRN Compact; developed by NCSBN in 2000  
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show licensure, certifcation, accreditation, scope of practice and standards of practice  
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show prcoess by which state government agency grants permission to accountable individuals for the practice of a profession and prohibits all others from legally practicing  
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show to protect the public by ensuring a minimum level of professional competence; offers title protection for these roles  
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Define certification.   show
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What is the purpose of certification?   show
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Define scope of practice.   show
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show qualify the core behaviors that all APN must have as well as core knowledge and behaviors required for those in speciality areas  
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What are standards of practice?   show
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show way of providing consumers with means to measure the quality of care they receive; legally describe the type of care that must be met by provider  
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What is Healthy People 2010 & WHO's Health for all?   show
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show document that outline what an NP in each of the specialty areas whould be able to do; developed by AACN and NONPF  
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show patient & family have right to assume that info given to the healthcare provider will not be disclosed; both written and verbal info  
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show require DHHS to establish national standards for electronic healthcare transcation and national identifiers for providers, health plans, and employers; address security and privacy of health data  
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show True  
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informed consent   show
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show explain ino to pt so they can make appropriate decision like diagnosis, nature, purpose of treatment, risks & benefits, prognosis, possible harm  
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show when a patient is incapable of making decisions, a person's preferences may be expressed by wya of written living will or healthcare durable power of attorney created when the patient was still competent  
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living wills   show
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living wills go into effect when   show
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show individuals idenitify in writing an agent to act on their behalf, should they become mentally incapacitated  
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moral concepts that are foundation of ethical behavior   show
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show system designed to evaluate and monitor quality of patient care and facility management; done through audits, utilization review, peer review, outcome studies and measurements of patient satisfaction  
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show negligent professional acts of individuals engaged in professions requring highly technical or professional skills  
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show duty, breach of duty, proximate cause, damage  
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show True  
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show patients, procedures, quality of medical records  
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National Practitioner Databank   show
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show True  
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show True  
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T/F. Many state NP organizations have recently focused legislative activity on enacting state laws allowing Nps to funciton as PCP in both HMOs and PPOs.   show
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health insurance-type of coverage   show
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show This term refers to types of health insurance plans that provide health care services at a lower cost. The key to these lower costs? Members of managed care plans must adhere to certain rules designed to lower the cost of medical care.  
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show HMO, PPO, POS  
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HMO-health maintenance organization   show
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PPO-preferred provider organization   show
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National Practitioner Data Bank & Health Integrity and Protection Data Bank   show
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T/F. Growing concerns over reimbursement fraud and abuse issues, as well as coding issues related to overbilling & underbilling, prompted CMS National Provider Identifier initiatve in 2007.   show
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what factors influence current practice environment   show
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show focused on advocacy and keeping NPs current on legislative, regulatory and clinical practice issues  
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show promote excellence in NP practice, education & reseqrch; shape future of health care  
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show instrumental in setting up standards for nurse practitioner education  
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