Legal Aspects of Nursing
Objective
Legal Aspects of Nursing helps to thoroughly understand the relationship between the law and Nursing practice. This course is one that is of utmost importance to Nurses...
Objective
Legal Aspects of Nursing helps to thoroughly understand the relationship between the law and Nursing practice. This course is one that is of utmost importance to Nurses...
Intravenous therapy is the infusion of liquid substances directly into a vein. Intravenous simply means “within vein”. Therapies administered intravenously are often included in the designation of specialty drugs....
Objective
This course sets out to help students understand some fundamentals in the area of medication Prescriptive practices. The course also explores the rather unprofessional act of drug diversion...
Individuals rarely admit to abusing children and infants. Rather, they invent “accidents, for example, the child’s dropping out of a lodging or highchair, tumbling down the stairs, or being...
The terms medical record, health record, and medical chart are used somewhat interchangeably to describe the systematic documentation of a single patient’s medical history and care across time within...
OBJECTIVES
When the student has finished this module, he/she will be able to:
1. Identify a basic definition of cognitive impairment.
2. Identify two possible causes of cognitive...
A blood-borne disease is one that can be spread through contamination by blood and other body fluids. The most common examples are HIV, hepatitis B and viral hemorrhagic fevers.
Nursing home residents’ rights are the legal and moral rights of the residents of a nursing home. Legislation exists in various jurisdictions to protect such rights. An early example...
Objective
Standard Precautions is a course that helps a health professional to understand the role of taking precautions, most especially in helping prevent infections or getting reinfected in the...
Patient safety is a new healthcare discipline that emphasizes the preventing, reducing, reporting and analysis of medical error that often leads to adverse healthcare events. The frequency and magnitude...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA; Pub.L. 104–191, 110 Stat. 1936, enacted August 21, 1996) was enacted by the United States Congress and signed by...