3.6: Review Questions
What information is important for the nurse to recognize about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
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Personal health information (PHI) should not be disclosed except on a need-to-know basis.
What ethical principle refers to promoting potential benefits and decreasing potential harms when the nurse provides care to a client?
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Beneficence
What ethical principle is the nurse practicing when the nurse respects a client’s wish to choose a specific treatment?
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Autonomy
What is a potential benefit to respecting a client’s autonomy in their health care decisions?
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Improves outcomes
A nurse is completing their eighth 12-hour shift in a row. Which item from the ANA Code of Ethics is the nurse at risk of violating?
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The nurse owes the same duty to self as to others, including the responsibility to promote health and safety.
The nurse is caring for a client receiving medication for the treatment of high blood pressure. What term best describes the client’s report to the nurse of becoming dizzy and passing out after taking this medication?
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Adverse drug reaction
The nurse, caring for a client with a seizure disorder, was late in administering the antiseizure medication, resulting in the client having a seizure. What term best describes this event?
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Adverse drug event
The nurse contacts a provider for a medication order, and the provider enters the order electronically from a remote computer. This is best described as what type of technology?
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Computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE)
The nurse recognizes that alerts have been placed into the electronic health record for what purpose?
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To improve the safety of the client
The nurse is reviewing orders just written by the health care provider. Which order would the nurse identify as being written correctly?
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Carvedilol 0.625 mg daily