Review Of Legal Aspects Of Nursing

Front 1

What type of procedures should be assigned to professional nurses

Back 1

Sterile or invasive procedures

Front 2

Negligence is measured by reasonableness. What question might ask when determining such reasonableness?

Back 2

Would a reasonble and prudent nurse at inthe same manner under the ame circumstances?

Front 3

List four elements that are necessry to prove negligence.

Back 3

Duty: Failure to protect client against unreasonable risk. Breach of duty: Failure to preform according to established standards. Causation: A connection exists between conduct of the nurse and the resulting damage.damages:Damage is done to the client, physical or mental.

Front 4

Define intentional tort, and give one example.

Back 4

Conduct causing damage to another peson in a willful or intentional way without just cause. Example: Hitting a client out of anger, not in a manner of self protection.

Front 5

What is an voluntary admission

Back 5

Voluntary: Client admits self
to an institution for treatment and retains his or her civil rights; he or she may leave at any time.

Front 6

List five activites a person whois declared incompetent cannot perform.

Back 6

Vote, make contracts or wills, drive a car, hold aprofessional license.

Front 7

Name three legal requirements of a surgical permit.

Back 7

Voluntary, informed, written

Front 8

Who may consent for medical treatment?

Back 8

Alert, coherent,or otherwise compentant dults; a part or lgal guardian; a person in lco prents of minors or incompetent

Front 9

What law protects the nurse who provides care or gives aid in an emergency situation?

Back 9

Inform the health care provider or physician;rcord that thehealth care provider or physician

Front 10

What actions should a nurse take if she /he questions a health care providers or physician's prescription

Back 10

Inform the HCP or MD ; record that the HCP or MD was informed and the HCP or MDreponse to such informatin; refuse to carry out the prescription