UNDERSTANDING HESI FUNDAMENTALS | TERMS USED AND THEIR EXPLANATIONS

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UNDERSTANDING HESI FUNDAMENTALS | TERMS USED AND THEIR EXPLANATIONS 1. Nightingale theory - Patient's environment is arrange to facilitate the body's reparative processes.Lady with the lamp 2. Doro... thea Orem - Self-Care Deficit Theory Focuses on activities that adult individuals perform on their own behalf to maintain life, health and well-being. 3. Malpractice - Professional negligence; failure to meet a legal duty, thus causing harm to another. 4. Negligence - The commissioning (doing) of an act or the omission (not doing) of an act that a reasonable prudent person would have preformed in a similar situation, thus causing harm to another. 5. Abandonment of Care - Wrongful termination of providing patient care. 6. HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) set rules and limits on who can look at and receive health care information. 7. Confidentiality - duty to protect information about a patient 8. Invasion of privacy - Person right to be left alone or anonymous if she or he chooses [Show More]

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