QA- NRS 101- 1/13/2023

These prescribe proper behavior in society, tells us what is unacceptable

• laws

• Negligence

• Duty

• Tort

Involves the needs of the public, the result is either "guilt" or innocence and penalty may in the form of a fine

• Negligence

• Criminal Law

• Duty

• Omission

Intentional threat to cause bodily harm, the conduct of one person makes another person fearful and apprehensive

• Battery

• Unintentional Tort

• Assault

• Negligence

Situation: A nurse threatens to place an NG tube into his assigned patient after the patient refuses to eat lunch.

• Assault

• Battery

• False Imprisionment

• None of the above

What would this be considered?

Situation: The nurse fails to implement safety measures for a client is known to be a risk for falls.

• Battery

• Assault

• Malpractice

• Negligence

What would this be considered?

Situation: A new nurse administers a large dose of a medication due to a calculation error. The client experiences a cardiac arrest and dies.

• Malpractice

• False Imprisonment

• Battery

• Negligence

Restraining a client/patient and providing an injection against without consent

• Harm

• Negligence

• Unintentional Tort

• Battery

Injury to a person or property that gives rise to basis for legal action against the person who caused the damage

• Harm

• Battery

• Tort

• Libel

Malicious or untrue writing about another person brought to the attention of another.

• Libel

• Slander

• Defamation

• Civil Wrongdoing

Wrongful termination of care provision

• Abandonment of care

• Abandonment of Duty

• Breech of Duty

• Breech of Confidentiality