Legal & Ethical Issues in Nursing Exam Questions Answered Correctly (Already Passed)
Advance directive - Answers witnessed written document or oral statement in which instructions are given by a person to express desires related to health care decisions. The directive may include, but is not lim...
Advance directive - Answers witnessed written document or oral statement in which instructions are
given by a person to express desires related to health care decisions. The directive may include, but is
not limited to, the designation of a health care surrogate, a living will, or an anatomical gift.
Living Will - Answers a witnessed document or oral statement voluntarily executed by a person that
expresses the person's instructions concerning life-prolonging procedures
Health care decision - Answers informed consent, refusal of consent, withdrawal of consent for health
care, unless stated in the advance directive.
Incapacity or incompetent - Answers Client is physically or mentally unable to communicate a willful and
knowing health care decision
Informed consent - Answers consent voluntarily given after a sufficient explanation and disclosure of
information
Proxy - Answers A competent adult who has not been expressly designated to make health care
decisions for an incapacitated person, but is authorized by state statute to make health care decisions
for the person
Surrogate - Answers A competent adult designated by a person to make health care decisions should
that person become incapacitated
Terminal condition - Answers A condition in which there is no reasonable medical probability of recovery
and can be expected to cause death without treatment
Persistent vegetative state - Answers A permanent, irreversible unconscious condition that
demonstrates an absence of voluntary action or cognitive behavior, or an inability to communicate or
interact purposefully with the environment.
Brain death - Answers Complete and irreversible cessation of brain function
Clinical death or cardiac death - Answers Irreversible cessation of spontaneous ventilation and
circulation
Life-prolonging procedure - Answers Any medical procedure or treatment, including sustenance and
hydration, that sustains, restores, or supplants a spontaneous vital function. Does not include the
administration of medication or treatments deemed necessary to provide comfort care or to alleviate
pain
Resuscitation - Answers Intervention with the intent of preserving life, restoring health, or reversing
clinical death.
, Chemical resuscitation - Answers we are giving the patient medications.
Mechanical Resuscitation - Answers CPR
Do not resuscitate (DNR) order - Answers A medical order that prohibits the use of cardiopulmonary
resuscitation and emergency cardiac care to reverse signs of clinical death. The DNR order may or may
not be specified in client's advanced directives
Allow natural death - Answers An alternate term with less negative connotations, but essentially
meaning DNR
¥ Statutory Law - Answers ¥ Consists of laws written and enacted by the U.S. Congress, the state
legislatures, and other governmental entities such as cities, counties, and townships
¥ Govern the profession of nursing
¥ Common Law - Answers ¥ It has evolved from the decisions of previous legal cases that form a
precedent
CRIMINAL LAW - Answers ¥ Concerned with providing protection for all members of society
¥ Involves a wide range of malfeasance, from minor traffic violations to murder
¥ Misdemeanors: minor criminal offenses
¥ Felonies: major criminal offenses
Civil Law - Answers ¥ Generally, deal with the violation of one individual's rights by another individual
¥ Many branches
¥ Contract law
¥ Treaty law
¥ Tax law
¥ Tort law - this is where nurses become involved with the legal system
Tort Law - Answers ¥ is generally defined as a wrongful act committed against a person or his or her
property independent of a contract
Unintentional - Answers we didn't mean to do it.
Intentional - Answers we totally meant to do it.
Nurse Practice Act - Answers defines the legal boundaries a nurse can practice under. Scope of practice
and Florida law tells us what we can and cannot do
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