CCBC Nur 129 Final UPDATED Actual Questions and CORRECT Answers
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CCBC Nur 129
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CCBC Nur 129
CCBC Nur 129 Final UPDATED Actual
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Advance Directive - CORRECT ANSWER- Written or verbal instructions created by the
patient describing specific wishes about medical in the event they become incapacitated
Case law - CORRECT ANSWER- body of written opinions created...
CCBC Nur 129 Final UPDATED Actual
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Advance Directive - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Written or verbal instructions created by the
patient describing specific wishes about medical in the event they become incapacitated
Case law - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔body of written opinions created by judges in federal
and state appellate courses (judge law/common law)
Civil Law - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Tort law that deals with conduct considered
unacceptable. Based on societal expectations. professional malpractice, negligence and
assault and battery
Common law - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Law that is created through the decision of judges
Comparative Negligence - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔liability where damages apportioned
among two or more defendants
Criminal negligence - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔reckless and wanton disregard for safety
Disclosure - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔physician gives information about unanticipated
adverse outcomes of treatment and care
Durable power of attorney for health care - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔instrument that
authorizes another person to act as one's agent in health care decisions
Error - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔failure of planned action to be completed as intended or
use of a wrong plan
Gross negligence - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Extreme carelessness showing willful or
reckless disregard for the patient safety
, Immunity - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Legal doctrine that protects a person from lawsuit or
negligent acts or protects an institution from acts of employees
Liability - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Legally responsible for harm caused to another person
or property as a result of one's actions
Licensing laws - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔laws that establish qualifications for obtaining
and maintaining a licsen
Malpractice - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Failure of a professional to meet standards of
conduct that a reasonable and prudent member of the profession would do
Negligence - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Failure to act in a manner that an ordinary, prudent
person would act in a similar situation
Preventable adverse event - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔injury caused by medical
management rather than the patient's underlying condition
Punitive damages - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔monetary compensation that goes beyond that
which is needed to compensate for losses, intended to punish the wrongdoer
Res ipsa loquitur - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔provider had exclusive control of events that
resulted in injury, "the thing speaks for itself"
Sentinel event - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Joint commission, unintended adverse event that
results in death, paralysis, loss of function
Standard of care - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔in civil cases, the legal criteria against which
the nurse conduct is compared to
Statutory law - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔law enacted by a legislative body
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