A student nurse is working in the library on her plan of care for a clinical assignment. The client's name is written at the top of her plan. What ethical responsibility is the student violating?
A) Confidentiality
B) Accountability
C) Trust
D) Informed consent
Ans: A
The student is violating confidentiality. Confidentiality is violated when patients are identified by name on written documents available to those who are not directly responsible for their care.
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1. Medical–psychobiologic and psychoanalytic theories focus on the individual client. 2. Social–interpersonal and medical–psychobiologic theories seek to change behavior through pharmacology. 3. Social–interpersonal and medical–psychobiologic theories are in direct opposition to the other. 4. Cognitive behavioral and psychoanalytic theories share the premise that behavior stems from the unconscious and requires the client to develop insight.
The nurse is aware that a common practice among older school-age children is skipping breakfast because these children
a. Often decide that breakfast is no longer important b. Feel that eating breakfast is babyish c. Find breakfast foods unappealing d. Think skipping meals will keep them from getting fat
The emphasis on understanding cultural influence on health care is important because of
a. disability entitlements. b. HIPAA requirements. c. increasing global diversity. d. litigious society.
When considering the pathophysiology of complications associated with orthopedic injuries, which of the following trauma patients has the greatest risk for kidney damage related to acute tubular necrosis?
A. Marie, a 34-year-old who fractured her left femur during a mountain biking accident B. An 84-year-old woman who dislocated her hip from a ground level fall C. Perry who broke his proximal humerus during football practice D. Mrs. Roper who sustained a pelvic fracture when she was broadsided by another vehicle