A Nurse Is Assigned to a Unit Other Than the One

question 12

Multiple Choice

A nurse is assigned to a unit other than the one she is normally assigned due to increased census on the alternate unit. She is assigned to care for seven patients and participates in walking rounds where the patient's condition and needs are discussed between oncoming and off-going shifts of the interdisciplinary team. The nurse carefully makes notes of all pending orders and prioritizes needs. The nurse enters the cafeteria later and the notes accidentally fall from her pocket, which contain the above information that contains patient sensitive data. The liabilities arising from this incident would be covered under:

• A) the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
• B) the ANA Scope and Practice Act.
• C) affirmative duty failing to question order.
• D) personal liability with floating and cross-training.

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Definitions:

Preoperational Stage

According to Piaget, the stage from approximately age 2 to age 7 in which children’s use of symbolic thinking grows, mental reasoning emerges, and the use of concepts increases.

Cognitive Development

The process by which individuals acquire and process knowledge through thought, experience, and the senses over time.

Preoperational

Refers to a stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, where children aged 2 to 7 years use symbols to represent their earlier sensorimotor discoveries but lack the ability to perform operations or use logic.

Cognitive Development

The process through which a person's ability to think, understand, and learn evolves over the course of their life, starting from infancy.