Chapter 40: Decision-making and accountability in children and young people’s nursing
1. Arguably what are the spheres of accountability for the children’s nurse?
- Statute law, public law, tort law, employment law
- Statute law, tort law, criminal law, employment law
- Public law, criminal law, employment law, family law
- Public law, tort law, family law, education law
2. Which decision-making theory describes the process of pattern recognition?
- Clinical decision-making model
- Intuitive–humanistic model
- Ethical decision-making model
- Information processing model
3. Who ultimately has the final decision when a collaborative healthcare decision cannot be made for a child or young person?
- The parents
- The child or young person
- The medical team
- The courts
4. What are the stages nurses undertake when using the information processing model for decision making?
- Hypothesis generation, cue recognition, cue interpretation, hypothesis evaluation
- Cue recognition, hypothesis generation, cue interpretation, hypothesis evaluation
- Cue recognition, cue interpretation, hypothesis generation, hypothesis evaluation
- Hypothesis generation, cue recognition, hypothesis evaluation, cue recognition
5. Which decision-making model identifies pattern recognition as an essential element of clinical decision-making?
- The information processing model
- The clinical decision-making model
- The intuitive–humanistic model
- Answers b and c