Week 1 Crossword

A process used to help individuals reflect on, clarify, prioritize personal values to increase self-awareness or to make decisions.
When a person’s values are inconsistent with his or her behaviors or when the person’s values are not consistent with the choices that are available.
Consists of three documents. Living will, durable power of attorney, and health care proxy.
Cultural change achieved through the exchange of cultural features resulting from firsthand contact between groups.
The freedom to make decisions supported by knowledge and self-confidence.
Actual physical harm caused to another person.
Doing good; nurses demonstrate beneficence by acting on behalf of others and placing priority on the needs of others rather than on personal thoughts and feelings.
Coordinator of Care.
Governs unjust acgts against indivduals, rather than federal or state crimes.
Care for indivduals within specific areas such as schools, prisons, or business.
A collection of interrelated concepts that provides direction for nursing practice, research, and education. A conceptual model addresses the four concepts of the nursing metaparadigm: optimal functioning of the person or patient, how people interact with the environment, illness and health promotion, and nursing's role.
Evidence-based criteria that indicate timeliness and effectiveness of care for specific conditions.
The Complex integration of an individual's knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, skills, and encounters with those of person from different cultures.
A transfer of responsibility that gives a competent individual consciously or unconsciously avoids the pain that has occurred with the loss.
A specific field of study or branch of instruction or learning.
A legal document that allows a designated person to make legal decisions on behalf of an individual who is unable or not permitted to make legal decisions independently.
The Standards of moral conduct within a society. The main concepts in nursing are accountability, advocacy, autonomy, benefience, confidentiality, fidelity, justice, nonmaleficence, responsibility, and veracity.
The intergration of best research evidence with clinical expertise, patient values and needs, and the delivery of quality, cost-effective health care.
Keeping promises or fulfilling agreements made with others.
Treating the patient's physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social self: address the many dimensions neccessary to fully care for a patient.
End-of-lofe care for the terminally ill.
Acting fairly and equitably.
Permission granted by a patient after discussing each of the follwing topics with a physician, surgeon, or ANP who will perform the surgery or procedure: (1) exact details of the treatment. (2) neccessary of the treatment, (3) all known fenefits and risks infolved, (4) Available alternatives, and (5) risks of treatment refusal.
The granting of a license which provides legal permission to practive.
A document that specifies the treatment a person wants to receive in cirumstantces in which that person is unconscious or no longer capable or making decisions independentl
Negligence committed by a person functioning within a professional role.
Formaly North American Nursing Diagnosis Association.
First, do no harm; the avoidence of harm.
Laws that provide the scope of practice defined by each state or jurisdiction and are the legal limits of nursing practice. These acts are laws that the nurse must be familiar with to function in practice.