Week 9 Nursing Ethics
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What is a possible consequence for a nurse if a complaint is deemed unsupported?

  • No action taken (correct)
  • Referral to a professional ethics board
  • Mandatory remedial programs
  • Immediate license suspension

Which principle emphasizes the necessity of not sharing any patient information?

  • Professionalism
  • Accountability
  • Integrity
  • Confidentiality (correct)

Which of the following is NOT a recommended risk mitigation strategy for nurses on social media?

  • Accepting patient friend requests (correct)
  • Separating personal and professional lives
  • Avoiding posting workplace issues
  • Setting proper privacy settings

What is a key requirement for maintaining professional boundaries in a therapeutic nurse-client relationship?

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What should a nurse do if they become aware of a confidentiality breach?

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Which principle of healthcare ethics emphasizes the importance of treating all patients fairly and equally?

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What does the ethical principle of beneficence primarily focus on in nursing?

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Which ethical value is associated with supporting self-determination in healthcare decisions?

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In the ethical decision-making framework, which step involves reflecting on possible outcomes of actions considered?

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What is the main focus of the professional responsibility aspect of ethics in nursing?

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Which ethical value emphasizes the protection of patient information and maintaining dignity?

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Which of the following is NOT a component of the principle of autonomy in healthcare?

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When analyzing ethical dilemmas, which step directly follows the identification of the ethical issue?

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Which type of nursing theory focuses on the social dynamics of nurse-patient interactions?

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What aspect does the 'Metaparadigm' concept primarily address in nursing?

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Which component of the nursing process is focused on organizing gathered information?

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What is the main purpose of a conceptual model in nursing?

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Which theory type is characterized by its broad coverage of nursing discipline concerns?

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How is health defined in the context of nursing's core metaparadigm concepts?

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Which theory emphasizes individual self-care needs in nursing?

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Which component of the nursing process involves prioritizing issues and creating a care plan?

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What is the first step in the Evidence-Informed Decision Making (EIDM) process?

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What is the primary purpose of the Health Care Consent Act and Substitute Decisions Act in relation to patient care?

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Which theory emphasizes the client-nursing relationship?

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Which of the following is NOT a component of the CRAAP Test for evaluating sources?

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Which of the following is NOT one of the seven key characteristics of Quality Practice Settings?

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Under what act are nurses expected to maintain professional conduct?

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In the PICO format, which element represents the group of individuals being studied?

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What is a common example of professional misconduct?

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What is a requirement for maintaining fitness to practice according to the Code of Ethics?

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Which step is NOT part of the complaint process regarding professional misconduct?

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Which of the following factors can impair a nurse's fitness to practice?

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Which form is a requirement for submitting a complaint to the College of Nurses of Ontario?

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Which database is recommended for finding peer-reviewed research?

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What is the role of the Inquiries, Complaints and Reports Committee (ICRC) in the CNO Fitness to Practice process?

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Which of the following actions is considered a conflict of interest for a nurse?

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What is one possible outcome from the resolution methods in a misconduct complaint?

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What is the primary role of nursing regulatory bodies in Canada?

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What amount of liability coverage is required for a Registered Nurse according to the College of Nurses of Ontario?

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Which of the following support resources offers anonymous access for mental health assistance to nurses?

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What method does the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle emphasize for continuous improvement in nursing?

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Which category of nursing does not require a mandatory professional liability protection according to CA law?

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Which of the following is an example of a nursing union in Ontario?

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What is a significant challenge currently faced by nurses in the mental health crisis?

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What does a claims-made professional liability policy cover?

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Which type of organization primarily focuses on the professional development and specialty practice of nurses?

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What is a necessary practice for maintaining appropriate privacy settings for nurses on social media?

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Which of the following actions is most likely to breach professional boundaries in nursing?

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What outcome is mandated if a nurse is found guilty of professional misconduct?

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What is the primary risk associated with accepting friend requests from patients on social media?

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Which statement best reflects the principle of accountability in the nursing profession?

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What is the primary function of a conceptual model in nursing?

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Which type of nursing theory primarily addresses the social dynamics of nurse-patient interactions?

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What distinguishes midrange theories in nursing from grand theories?

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Which one of the following concepts does NOT belong to the core nursing metaparadigm?

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Which ethical principle focuses on ensuring fairness and equality in patient treatment?

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What is the main purpose of research in professional nursing?

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What is the initial step in the ethical decision-making framework?

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Which component of the nursing process directly follows the assessment phase?

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Which CNO ethical value emphasizes the importance of client autonomy in making healthcare decisions?

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In the context of nursing theories, what is a 'metatheory' primarily concerned with?

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Which theory would likely focus on the overall well-being of a patient rather than merely the absence of disease?

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In the context of the ethical principles of healthcare, what does beneficence primarily address?

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Which of the following is NOT one of the CNO ethical values?

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What does the ethical principle of non-maleficence entail in nursing practice?

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Which ethical framework step involves evaluating potential outcomes of different courses of action?

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Which key ethical value highlights the importance of protecting client information and maintaining their dignity?

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Which of the following best describes a critical step in Evidence-Informed Decision Making?

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What is the purpose of the CRAAP Test in evaluating sources of evidence?

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Which of the following components is NOT part of the PICO format for quantitative research?

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Which action is critical for a nurse's fitness to practice according to the Code of Ethics?

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In the Evidence-Informed Practice steps, what is the final step after integrating evidence and expertise?

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What impact can problematic substance use have on a nurse's professional practice?

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Which of the following is a requirement for employers reporting concerns regarding a nurse's practice?

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What is the role of the 6S Pyramid Tool in research evidence evaluation?

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What is a consequence of a nurse failing to maintain standards of practice?

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Which method is NOT part of the resolution process for complaints against nurses?

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What is a main function of the College of Nurses of Ontario?

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Which of the following is listed as a category of professional misconduct?

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What principle is critical for maintaining patient confidentiality in nursing practice?

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Which aspect is NOT emphasized within quality practice settings for nursing?

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Which statement best describes informed consent in healthcare?

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Which of the following actions could be considered a conflict of interest in nursing?

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What type of nursing organization primarily works to negotiate collective agreements for safe working conditions and fair pay?

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Which of the following is NOT a common mental health challenge faced by nurses currently?

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Which of the following statements correctly describes a requirement for maintaining fitness to practice?

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What is a significant component of the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle in quality improvement?

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Under which classification does a Registered Nurse's professional liability protection fall?

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What is a common misconception regarding the type of coverage provided by claims-made professional liability policies?

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Which of the following support resources provides mental health assistance with anonymous access?

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What key obligation must nurses fulfill regularly to maintain fitness to practice?

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What should occur following the assurance of public safety regarding practice restrictions for a nurse?

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Which of the following statements is correct regarding the scope of coverage needed for professional liability protection?

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Flashcards

Patient Confidentiality

Protecting patient information; never sharing it.

Professional Boundaries

Maintaining appropriate limits in online and offline interactions with patients.

Social Media Guidelines

Rules for using social media professionally, including protecting patient privacy.

Risk Mitigation Strategies

Actions you can take to reduce the risk of harm to patients and your career from inappropriate online behavior.

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Consequences of Breach

Potential outcomes from violating professional standards (e.g., fines, suspension).

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Nursing Ethics

The study of right and wrong behavior in nursing practice, guided by professional values and principles.

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Autonomy

A patient's right to make their own healthcare decisions.

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Beneficence

Promoting a patient's well-being and health.

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Non-Maleficence

Avoiding harm to patients.

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Justice in Healthcare

Fair and equal treatment of all patients.

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CNO Ethical Values

Core principles set by the College of Nurses Ontario, guiding nursing practice.

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Client Well-being

Prioritizing the health and safety of the patient.

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Ethical Decision-Making Framework

A structured way to identify and resolve ethical dilemmas in nursing practice.

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Consent and Confidentiality in Healthcare

Rules that protect patient rights by requiring informed consent for treatments and maintaining privacy of health information, and considering substitute decision-makers.

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Professional Misconduct (Nursing)

Actions that violate professional standards, harming patient safety or public trust, as outlined in the Regulated Health Professions Act and Nursing Act.

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Quality Practice Settings

Characteristics of a workplace that support nurses delivering ethical, professional care.

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Nursing Professional Conduct

Standards of behavior that a nurse must adhere to to act ethically and safely. This is monitored by regulatory bodies like the CNO

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Categories of Professional Misconduct

Specific types of actions that violate professional standards in nursing practice, including failures, abuse, theft, and unethical communication.

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Complaint Process (Nursing)

A formal mechanism for handling complaints about a nurse's conduct using methods like alternative dispute resolution and investigation.

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Complaint Reception (Nursing)

The beginning stage of a formal complaint process, where initial complaint details must be documented to proceed with the process

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Nursing Theory

A framework of related concepts that explain and guide nursing practice.

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Metaparadigm

The fundamental concepts that define a discipline, in nursing, they include person, environment, health, and nursing.

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Concept

A basic idea or notion.

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Conceptual Model

A group of related concepts demonstrating how they connect.

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Grand Theory

A broad theory covering significant aspects of a discipline (e.g., nursing).

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Midrange Theory

A nursing theory focused on specific aspects of nursing practice.

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Nursing Process (ADPIE) ,

A systematic plan for giving nursing care, which consists of Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Intervention, and Evaluation.

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Health

A state beyond the absence of illness, encompassing physical, social, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being.

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Evidence-Informed Decision Making (EIDM)

Using critical appraisal of scientific evidence, research findings, clinical expertise, and client preferences to inform decisions in nursing practice.

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PICO format

A framework to structure research questions, involving Population, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome. Used for quantitative research.

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PS format

A framework for qualitative research questions, using Population and Situation.

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Fitness to Practice

All qualities and capabilities needed to practice nursing safely, including freedom from conditions that could impair practice (cognitive, physical, psychological, emotional, and substance dependencies).

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Factors Affecting Fitness to Practice

Problems like substance abuse, mental health issues, injuries, fatigue, and any other issues that impact nursing practice quality.

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CNO Fitness to Practice Process

A multi-step process where concerns are reported by employers to investigate a potential impairment in their practice.

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Health Inquiry step

The initial step in the CNO process initiated by the employer reporting a concern about a nurse's fitness to practice; and it involves a review of the situation, potentially culminating in a health assessment.

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Evidence Evaluation Tools

Using tools like the 6S Pyramid and the CRAAP Test to assess the quality, credibility, and relevance of research evidence.

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Fitness to Practice Committee

A body that investigates and addresses concerns about a nurse's ability to practice safely. They can impose restrictions or even require a nurse to surrender their license.

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Public Register

A public record that documents restrictions placed on a nurse's practice, such as limitations or voluntary agreements made. This information is made available to ensure public safety.

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Current Challenges in Mental Health for Nurses

Nurses face numerous mental health challenges, including burnout, depression, and PTSD, often due to difficult work conditions like short staffing, heavy workloads, and workplace violence.

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Maintaining Fitness to Practice

Nurses have a responsibility to maintain their mental and physical health to practice safely. This includes regular self-assessment, seeking help when needed, and utilizing healthcare and staff health programs.

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Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Cycle

A continuous improvement process used to identify problems, analyze them, develop evidence-based strategies, evaluate outcomes, and make adjustments for ongoing quality improvement.

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Nursing Regulatory Bodies

Organizations like the College of Nurses of Ontario that set and enforce standards of practice for nurses, ensuring public safety and protecting the profession.

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What do Nursing Unions do?

They advocate for nurses as workers, negotiate collective agreements with employers, and focus on improving working conditions and fair pay for nurses.

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Nursing Specialty Practice Organizations

Groups that focus on specific areas of nursing practice, like pediatrics or oncology, providing professional development and advancing specialized care.

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Professional Liability Protection (PLP)

Insurance coverage mandatory for Ontario nurses that protects them from financial risks associated with allegations of malpractice or negligence.

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Occurrence-Based Coverage

PLP that covers incidents that happened during the active policy period, even if the claim is filed later.

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Maintain Separate Accounts

Keep your personal social media separate from your professional accounts to avoid blurring boundaries and potential ethical conflicts.

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Confidentiality Breach

Revealing patient information online, even accidentally, can violate their privacy and harm their well-being.

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Risk Mitigation

Strategies to reduce the chances of online actions harming your professional reputation or patients.

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Employer Policies

Always check and follow your employer's rules for social media use, as they often have stricter guidelines than general professional standards.

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What are ethics in nursing?

Ethics in nursing involve studying right and wrong behavior in nursing based on philosophical ideals. It guides nurses' actions by focusing on core professional values.

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What's the role of values in nursing ethics?

Values are strong personal beliefs and ideals that influence how a nurse acts. They shape ethical decisions and guide actions.

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What are professional responsibilities?

Professional responsibilities involve being reliable, dependable, and acting with duty. Nurses are expected to fulfill their roles effectively.

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What is advocacy in nursing?

Advocacy means acting on behalf of others, promoting fairness and equity. Nurses advocate for their patients' rights and well-being.

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What is accountability in nursing?

Accountability means maintaining professional standards and competence. Nurses are responsible for their actions and decisions affecting patients.

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What is autonomy in healthcare ethics?

Autonomy is the patient's freedom to make their own decisions about their healthcare. Nurses must respect this right.

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What is beneficence?

Beneficence means acting for the patient's benefit and promoting their wellbeing. Nurses strive to do what's good for patients.

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What is non-maleficence?

Non-maleficence means avoiding harm to patients. Nurses must take precautions to prevent injury or negative consequences.

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Informed Consent

A patient's voluntary agreement to a medical procedure or treatment after understanding the risks, benefits, and alternatives, as outlined in the Health Care Consent Act and Substitute Decisions Act.

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Substitute Decision-Maker

A person legally authorized to make healthcare decisions for a patient who is incapable of making their own decisions as determined by the Substitute Decisions Act.

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Professional Misconduct

Actions by nurses that violate ethical and professional standards, harming patient safety or public trust, regulated by the Regulated Health Professions Act and Nursing Act.

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Categories of Misconduct

Specific types of actions that breach professional standards, including failures, abuse, theft, and unethical communication.

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Complaint Process

A formal system to investigate complaints about a nurse's conduct using methods like alternative dispute resolution and investigation.

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Investigation Process

Gathering evidence, interviewing witnesses, providing the nurse a chance to respond, and review by the Inquiries, Complaints and Reports Committee (ICRC).

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Nursing Process

A systematic approach to providing care that involves Assessment (gather info), Diagnosis (identify problems), Planning (create a care plan), Intervention (carry out the plan), and Evaluation (assess outcomes).

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Evidence-Informed Decision Making

Using the best available research evidence, clinical expertise, and patient preferences to make informed decisions about care.

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Simultaneity Theories

Theories that emphasize a holistic understanding of the client-nurse relationship, considering the interconnectedness of all aspects of the client's being.

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Factors Affecting Fitness

Conditions that can negatively impact a nurse's ability to practice safely, including substance use, mental health issues, physical limitations, fatigue, and other factors affecting practice quality.

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Health Inquiry

The initial step in the CNO process, where concerns are reported, risk levels assessed, and inquiries conducted to investigate a nurse's fitness to practice.

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Study Notes

Week 9 Nursing Ethics

  • Ethics involves the study of right and wrong, guided by philosophical ideals. Nursing ethics reflects core professional values, including:
    • Values: Strong personal beliefs and ideals
    • Professional responsibilities: Reliability, dependability, and duty to perform actions
    • Advocacy: Acting on behalf of others, promoting equity, and accountability
  • Principles of Healthcare Ethics include:
    • Autonomy: Freedom of self-determination
    • Beneficence: Promoting patient well-being
    • Non-maleficence: Avoiding harm
    • Justice: Fair and equal treatment of all patients
  • CNO Ethical Values include:
    • Client Well-being: Promoting health and preventing harm, balancing benefits and risks, respecting client perspectives
    • Client Choice: Supporting self-determination, providing informed decision-making support, and working with substitute decision makers when needed
    • Privacy & Confidentiality: Protecting personal information, maintaining dignity, and sharing only when necessary
    • Respect for Life: Honoring client values about life and quality of life, providing dignified end-of-life care, and arranging alternative care when values conflict
    • Maintaining Commitments: Putting client needs first, recognizing personal limitations, upholding professional standards, and advocating for improvement
    • Truthfulness: Providing complete information

Ethical Decision-Making

  • Framework for analyzing dilemmas:
    • Identify the ethical issue
    • Gather relevant information
    • Examine personal values
    • Define the problem
    • Consider possible actions
    • Reflect on outcomes
    • Evaluate results
  • Consent and confidentiality are governed by the Healthcare Consent Act and Substitute Decisions Act
  • Informed consent is required for treatment
  • Maintaining privacy of health information is crucial
  • Balancing information sharing with privacy protection is necessary.
  • Quality practice settings have seven key characteristics:
    • Professional development systems
    • Leadership
    • Organizational supports
    • Response systems
    • Equipment and facilities
    • Communication systems
    • Care delivery processes

Week 10 Professional Boundaries/Misconduct & Social Media Use

  • Professional Misconduct includes:
    • Failure to maintain standards of practice
    • Working while impaired
    • Abusive conduct
    • Theft
    • Failure to obtain client consent
    • Inadequate documentation & record keeping
    • Misrepresentation
    • Failure to meet legal/professional obligations
    • Conflict of interest
    • Inappropriate business practices
    • Disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional conduct

Complaint Process

  • Complaints must be written or recorded and include the complainant's contact information
  • The college acknowledges receipt and explains the process
  • Resolution methods may include Alternative Dispute Resolution or Formal Investigation
  • Disciplinary proceedings may follow
  • Potential outcomes include no action if unsupported or advice, caution, mandatory remedial programs, referral to discipline committee, or fines, suspension, or revocation of license

Week 11 Nursing Theories, Research, & Evidence-Based Practice

  • Key terms related to nursing theories are defined.
  • Theories and conceptual frameworks in nursing practice are described.
  • Components of nursing theories are identified.
  • Research's role in professional nursing is understood, and skills for critiquing research are developed.
    • Evidence-based decision-making in nursing is explained.
    • Sources of evidence for clinical practice are understood

Week 12

  • Learning Outcomes include understanding fitness to practice, applying it to nursing, self-regulation and public protection
  • Recognizing symptoms, causes, and effects of practice-impairing stressors and methods for maintaining fitness to practice are explored
  • Fitness to practice encompasses qualities that could impair nursing practice, including cognitive, physical, psychological conditions, and substance dependencies
  • Maintaining fitness to practice, following the code of ethics, includes the need to withdraw from care if unable to practice safely, and take steps to regain fitness

Week 13

  • Learning Outcomes include identifying nursing organizations and comparing regulatory bodies, professional organizations, and examining the benefits of membership, importance of navigating professional liability protection as well as nursing union roles.
  • Overview of nursing organizations in Canada, and different categories like Registered Nurses, Registered Practical Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Registered Psychiatric Nurses are defined.
  • Examples of Professional Organizations such as College of Nurses of Ontario are explored.
  • Role and importance of Nursing specialty practice organizations is discussed, including Pediatric Oncology Group
  • Professional liability protection (PLP) and key requirements (mandatory coverage in cases of malpractice), types of coverage (occurrence-based, claims-made), and important considerations for all practice settings are explained. PLP covers incidents during active coverage. Claims-made coverage covers claims during the policy period.

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