Why are children a growing medical population?
Due to increased survival rates.
When will the Nursing Paediatric Specialty Certificate Exam start examining RNs?
November 2019 - they will notify these nurses if they have passed by January 2020
What do child life specialists provide?
They provide evidence-based, developmentally and psychologically appropriate interventions including therapeutic play, preparation for procedures, and education to reduce fear, anxiety, and pain.
What is the circle of care?
The group of professionals that are currently helping a patient.
What are some of the rights you have as a health care consumer?
What are the 7 broad standards that set the tone for the rest of the documents guiding best practices in nursing (in Ontario)?
What has the CNO (College of Nurses Ontario) decided that the most important values are when giving nursing care?
With most health professionals, documentation usually includes what?
What is involved in informed consent?
What does informed consent require?
requires that the client understands the information presented, gives consent voluntarily, and is competent to give consent to treatment
What is a process that continues for the duration of the professional relationship?
Informed consent
What are some of the informed consent key contents (which should be provided in writing and discussed fully):
T or F: Informed consent is completed at the initial counselling session by having a client sign some forms
False: Informed consent is ongoing
What does the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child (2009) recommend?
T or F: Ontario legislation does not identify an age at which minors may exercise independent consent for health care or services
True
What is decision-making capacity?
Professionals must make a determination of capacity to consent for a child just as they would for an adult.
What are some of the reasons why it can be a tricky and legally complicated process when working with children?
What is the definition for circle of care?
The ability of certain health information custodians to assume an individual’s implied consent to collect, use or disclose personal health information for the purpose of providing health care
What are some examples of health information custodians?
T or F: record keeping is an essential standard of professional practice
true
Talk about record keeping from a clinical perspective:
Talk about record keeping from an ethical perspective:
Records can assist practitioners in providing quality care to their clients or service users
Talk about record keeping from a legal perspective:
Provincial laws require keeping a record
_______________ is the practice of focusing on the identification, evaluation, and treatment of problems that may injure clients and lead
to filing an ethics complaint or a malpractice action.
Risk management
Informed consent
Termination
Standard of care
Risk management