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Leadership and management HESI Exam
With Verified Questions and Answers
What are types of unintentional torts? - answer✔✔negligence and malpractice
unintentional tort - answer✔✔an act involving injury or damage to another resulting in civil
liability instead or criminal liability
Negligence - answer✔✔performing an act that reasonable and prudent person would NOT
perform
Malpractice - answer✔✔negligence by a professional personnel. Results in injury.
four elements that are necessary to prove malpractice (if one is missing malpractice CANNOT be
proved) - answer✔✔1. Duty- obligation to use due care (what is reasonable for a nurse to do) or
failure to care for or protect from unreasonable risk
2. Breach of Duty- failure to perform according to the established standard of conduct in care
3.Injury or damages (not mental only physical but double check)
4.causation: proximate cause or remoteness of damage
nurses can avoid negligence and malpractice by following - answer✔✔their organizations
policies and procedures
Types of intentional torts - answer✔✔assault, battery, false imprisonment, defamation, invasion
of privacy, fraud, exposure of a person
assault - answer✔✔mental or physical threat
battery - answer✔✔actual and intentional touching of one another; with or without the intent to
do harm
forced to have a treatment is an example of - answer✔✔battery
invasion of privacy - answer✔✔encroachment or trespassing on another's body or personality
False Imprisonment - answer✔✔confinement without legal authority
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exposure of a person - body - answer✔✔after death, a client has the right to be observed,
excluded from unwarranted operations, and protected form unauthorized touching of the body
exposure of a person - personality - answer✔✔exposure or discussion of a client's case or
recalling personal information or identity
Defamation - answer✔✔divulgence of privileged information or communication (chart, convos,
or observations)
fraud - answer✔✔illegal activity and willful and purposeful misrepresentation that could cause,
or caused, loss or harm to a person or property
presenting false credentials for the purpose of entering nursing school, obtaining a license, or
obtaining employment is an example of - answer✔✔fraud
describing a myth regarding a treatment like telling a client that. a placebo has no side effects
and will cure the disease, or telling a client that a treatment or diagnostic test will not hurt when
pain is involved are examples of - answer✔✔fraud
criminal conspiracy occurs when - answer✔✔two or more people agree to commit a crime
is a person who sees a crime occur guilty? - answer✔✔yes
T/F it is a crime NOT to report suspected child abuse - answer✔✔true
pH range - answer✔✔7.35-7.45
PO2 norm? - answer✔✔80-100 mmHg
pCo2 - answer✔✔35-45
SaO2 - answer✔✔95-100%
Bicarbonate (HCO3) - answer✔✔22-26 mEq/L
Hematocrit, male, normal range - answer✔✔42-52%
Hematocrit, female, normal range - answer✔✔36-46%
Hemoglobin male range - answer✔✔14-18 g/dL
Hemoglobin female range - answer✔✔12-16 g/dL
WBC count - answer✔✔5,000-10,000
critical wbc levels - answer✔✔< 2,000
Leadership and management HESI Exam
With Verified Questions and Answers
What are types of unintentional torts? - answer✔✔negligence and malpractice
unintentional tort - answer✔✔an act involving injury or damage to another resulting in civil
liability instead or criminal liability
Negligence - answer✔✔performing an act that reasonable and prudent person would NOT
perform
Malpractice - answer✔✔negligence by a professional personnel. Results in injury.
four elements that are necessary to prove malpractice (if one is missing malpractice CANNOT be
proved) - answer✔✔1. Duty- obligation to use due care (what is reasonable for a nurse to do) or
failure to care for or protect from unreasonable risk
2. Breach of Duty- failure to perform according to the established standard of conduct in care
3.Injury or damages (not mental only physical but double check)
4.causation: proximate cause or remoteness of damage
nurses can avoid negligence and malpractice by following - answer✔✔their organizations
policies and procedures
Types of intentional torts - answer✔✔assault, battery, false imprisonment, defamation, invasion
of privacy, fraud, exposure of a person
assault - answer✔✔mental or physical threat
battery - answer✔✔actual and intentional touching of one another; with or without the intent to
do harm
forced to have a treatment is an example of - answer✔✔battery
invasion of privacy - answer✔✔encroachment or trespassing on another's body or personality
False Imprisonment - answer✔✔confinement without legal authority
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exposure of a person - body - answer✔✔after death, a client has the right to be observed,
excluded from unwarranted operations, and protected form unauthorized touching of the body
exposure of a person - personality - answer✔✔exposure or discussion of a client's case or
recalling personal information or identity
Defamation - answer✔✔divulgence of privileged information or communication (chart, convos,
or observations)
fraud - answer✔✔illegal activity and willful and purposeful misrepresentation that could cause,
or caused, loss or harm to a person or property
presenting false credentials for the purpose of entering nursing school, obtaining a license, or
obtaining employment is an example of - answer✔✔fraud
describing a myth regarding a treatment like telling a client that. a placebo has no side effects
and will cure the disease, or telling a client that a treatment or diagnostic test will not hurt when
pain is involved are examples of - answer✔✔fraud
criminal conspiracy occurs when - answer✔✔two or more people agree to commit a crime
is a person who sees a crime occur guilty? - answer✔✔yes
T/F it is a crime NOT to report suspected child abuse - answer✔✔true
pH range - answer✔✔7.35-7.45
PO2 norm? - answer✔✔80-100 mmHg
pCo2 - answer✔✔35-45
SaO2 - answer✔✔95-100%
Bicarbonate (HCO3) - answer✔✔22-26 mEq/L
Hematocrit, male, normal range - answer✔✔42-52%
Hematocrit, female, normal range - answer✔✔36-46%
Hemoglobin male range - answer✔✔14-18 g/dL
Hemoglobin female range - answer✔✔12-16 g/dL
WBC count - answer✔✔5,000-10,000
critical wbc levels - answer✔✔< 2,000
