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The health care provider prescribes orders for a client with newly diagnosed uncontrolled seizure activity. When reviewing the prescriptions, the nurse correctly identifies which prescription, if followed, puts him at risk for negligence charges?

Restrain all four extremities

A nurse is overheard in the hospital cafeteria making false comments about a client. The nurse is guilty of:

Slander

A nurse exits the room of a confused client without raising the side rails on the bed. The failure to raise the side rails would be which of the following elements of liability related to malpractice?

Breach of duty

The registered nurse (RN) delegates newly hired unlicensed assistant personnel (UAP) to transfer a client with a light-sided brain attack (stroke) from the wheelchair to the bed. The RN realizes her responsibility for the client's safety when delegating a task. The nurse becomes concerned and intervenes when she notices which action by the UAP?

The UAP positions the client's right side away from the bed.

In some cases, the act of providing nursing care in unexpected situations is covered by the Good Samaritan laws. Which nursing actions would most likely be covered by these laws?

Emergency care for a choking victim in a restaurant

he nurse attorney hired a nurse expert to testify in a malpractice case. The attorney has which expectation of the expert when testifying on the stand?

To discuss whether the standards of nursing care were met when nursing care was given

Nurses are occasionally asked to witness a testator's (person who makes the will) signing of his or her will. Which of the following guidelines is true regarding a nurse's role is witnessing a testator's signature?

Witnesses to a signature do not need to read the will.

Nurses may commit both intentional and unintentional torts when practicing within the profession. What are examples of intentional torts in nursing practice? (Select all that apply.)

• A nurse threatens to hit an older patient who has dementia and is wailing. • A nurse seeks employment in a hospital after falsifying credentials on a resume. • A nurse places a patient who is a fall risk in restraints without the proper order. • A nurse makes disparaging remarks to the staff about a patient who has a sexually transmitted infection.

he nurse recognizes liability requires specific elements that must be established to prove that malpractice or negligence has occurred. Identify the specific elements. Select all that apply.

• Duty • Breach of duty • Causation • Damages

A nurse hired to work in an ambulatory setting attends new employee orientation. The nurse never worked in ambulatory before and is concerned about the Scope and Standards of Practice for Professional Ambulatory Care Nursing. Which response, given by the nurse educator, would further explain the Scope and Standards of Practice for Professional Care Nursing to the new nurse?

"The Scope and Standards of Practice for Professional Ambulatory Care Nursing deal with the professional obligations of a nurse working in the ambulatory setting."

A malpractice case involving an incident in the operating room has entered litigation. A scrub nurse has been asked to present her firsthand knowledge of the incident based upon recollection and documentation in the client record. The nurse's role in this malpractice case is what?

Nurse as a fact witness.

Legal safeguards are in place in the nursing practice to protect the nurse from exposure to legal risks as well as protect the patient from harm. What are examples of legal safeguards for the nurse? (Select all that apply.)

• The nurse obtains informed consent from a patient to perform a procedure. • The nurse educates the patient about the Patient Bill of Rights. • The nurse documents all patient care in a timely manner.

While lecturing on the legality of nursing practice, the nursing faculty asks a student about the purpose of the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN). Which statement given by the student indicates to the faculty that the student has an understanding of the NCLEX-RN?

"NCLEX-RN is the test that graduate nurses take for licensure. It protects the public by assessing a minimal standard of knowledge to practice nursing."

Which of the following clinical events is addressed by the provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?

A client believes that the health care team is withholding information about her diagnosis and wishes to read her medical chart.

Which of the following is an example of certification?

A nurse who demonstrates advanced expertise in a content area of nursing through special testing.

The nurse educator provides an educational session to the nursing staff on protection of a client's privacy. Which circumstances, identified by the staff, would indicate to the educator that the teaching was effective? Select all that apply.

• With the client's permission, the nurse explained the client's diagnosis to the client's spouse. • The nurse removed the client from the emergency department waiting room into a private area to collect assessment data.