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    Exercise \(\PageIndex{1}\)

    What information is important for the nurse to recognize about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?

  1. Client outcomes can be improved through the use of quality measures.
  2. Nurses are mandated to use the electronic health record in a meaningful way.
  3. Personal health information (PHI) should not be disclosed except on a need-to-know basis.
  4. This act expanded the Medicaid program by raising the federal poverty level.
    5. Answer

    Personal health information (PHI) should not be disclosed except on a need-to-know basis.

    Exercise \(\PageIndex{2}\)

    What ethical principle refers to promoting potential benefits and decreasing potential harms when the nurse provides care to a client?

  5. Justice
  6. Nonmaleficence
  7. Autonomy
  8. Beneficence
    9. Answer

    Beneficence

    Exercise \(\PageIndex{3}\)

    What ethical principle is the nurse practicing when the nurse respects a client’s wish to choose a specific treatment?

  9. Justice
  10. Nonmaleficence
  11. Autonomy
  12. Beneficence
    13. Answer

    Autonomy

    Exercise \(\PageIndex{4}\)

    What is a potential benefit to respecting a client’s autonomy in their health care decisions?

  13. Improves outcomes
  14. Decreases the likelihood of the client refusing treatment
  15. Removes harmful conditions
  16. Decreases the chance of the client denying their illness
    17. Answer

    Improves outcomes

    Exercise \(\PageIndex{5}\)

    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?

  17. The nurse should practice with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and unique attributes of the clients.
  18. The nurse owes the same duty to self as to others, including the responsibility to promote health and safety.
  19. The nurse’s primary commitment is to the client, whether an individual, family, group, community, or population.
  20. The nurse collaborates with other health care professionals to protect human rights, promote health diplomacy, and reduce health disparities.
    21. Answer

    The nurse owes the same duty to self as to others, including the responsibility to promote health and safety.

    Exercise \(\PageIndex{6}\)

    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?

  21. Anaphylaxis
  22. Allergic reaction
  23. Adverse drug reaction
  24. Adverse drug event
    25. Answer

    Adverse drug reaction

    Exercise \(\PageIndex{7}\)

    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?

  25. Adverse drug reaction
  26. Allergic reaction
  27. Side effect
  28. Adverse drug event
    29. Answer

    Adverse drug event

    Exercise \(\PageIndex{8}\)

    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?

  29. Health information technology (HIT)
  30. Protected health information (PHI)
  31. Computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE)
  32. Electronic health record (EHR)
    33. Answer

    Computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE)

    Exercise \(\PageIndex{9}\)

    The nurse recognizes that alerts have been placed into the electronic health record for what purpose?

  33. To improve the safety of the client
  34. To assist with communication with other providers
  35. To allow orders to be communicated to other departments
  36. To decrease the need for barcode scanning
    37. Answer

    To improve the safety of the client

    Exercise \(\PageIndex{10}\)

    The nurse is reviewing orders just written by the health care provider. Which order would the nurse identify as being written correctly?

  37. Carvedilol .625 mg
  38. Carvedilol 0.625 mg daily
  39. Carvedilol 25.0 mg daily
  40. Carvedilol 1.250 mg daily
    41. Answer

    Carvedilol 0.625 mg daily

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