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WCU NSG 412 Exam 1 Questions And
Answers 2025 Update.


The nurses legal responsibility - Answer✔Liability


Failure to follow established policies & procedures in the same manner than another
:reasonable nurse would do in the same situation" - Answer✔Negligence


A source of legal liability: Contains 4 elements that must be linked to the action in order to hold
another accountable - Answer✔Malpractice


Intentional threatening to touch someone without consent - Answer✔Assault


Making false statements about a person (either written or verbal) - Answer✔Defamation


Oral defamation of character - Answer✔Slander


Written defamation of character - Answer✔Liabel


Touching a person without their consent - Answer✔Battery


Detaining and/or restricting a person's freedom of movement (ie. using a restraint without
orders - Answer✔False imprisonment


- Orders must be updated/renewed q24 hours

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- Use least restrictive to most restrictive - Answer✔Rules of Using Restraints


- Protects the consumer
- Ensures you have completed an approved program
- Successfully passed a licensure exam
- Continues to meet requirements of the licensing board

- Gives nurses a responsibility to practice within their scope - Answer✔What does an RN license
do?


- Protect health insurance for workers who lost or changed jobs
- Protect coverage for preexisting conditions

- Standards to protect privacy of personal health information - Answer✔Federal Laws Applied
to Nursing: HIPPA (1996)


- Client's right to make their own decision about their care
- Living will (advance directives)

- Durable Power of attorny - Answer✔Federal Laws Applied to Nursing: Patient Self-
Determination Act (1991)


- Protection for those with mental/physical disabilities

- Reasonable accommodations must be provided - Answer✔Federal Laws Applied to Nursing:
Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)


- Must report physical, sexual, or emotional abuse/neglect
- Special groups: children, older adults, mentally ill
- Report required: communicable diseases, gunshot wounds, dog bites

- Apply even outside of healthcare setting - Answer✔State Laws Applied to Nursing: Mandatory
Reporting Laws


- Protects those providing emergency care

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- Must be provided in a competent manner
- Person receiving the care did not object

- No payment was received for services - Answer✔State Laws Applied to Nursing: Good
Samaritan Laws


- To protect the health & safety of the public
- Defines the scope of practice (what nurses can and cannot do)

- Approve programs of pre-licensed programs - Answer✔State Laws Applied to Nursing: Nurse
Practice Acts


- Lawsuit brought against a healthcare provider for damages (money) when a death or injury to
the person being treated has occurred
- States vary on timeframe and amount of monetary compensation

- Malpractice insurance protects the individual/ patient - Answer✔State Laws Applied to
Nursing: Malpractice Statutes


D. Patient Self-Determination Act - Answer✔On admission, the patient states that he would like
information about a "living will". The nurse informs the patient that the hospital does not have
a process in place to facilitate this. This institution is NOT in compliance with:


A. HIPAA
B. Emergency Medical Treat & Active Labor Act
C. Americans with Disabilities Act
D. Patient Self-Determination Act


C. Let's discuss how you feel about the situation - Answer✔A 15-year old male comes to the
clinic seeking treatment for "a problem". The nursing history reveals that the client may have a
sexually transmitted infection. Which is the most appropriate response by the nurse?


A. "I will need a list of all the people with whom you have had relations"
B. "Have you told your parents about this situation?"

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C. "Let's discuss how you feel about this situation".
D. "You will need to practice safe sex. Let's discuss how to use condoms"


B. False - Answer✔There are no legal consequences for nurses who do not follow the ANA
Standards of Professional Performance as these are not laws.


A. True
B. False.


B. Slander - Answer✔Trina, an RN on the nursing unit, states to the student nurse "I see you are
working with Beth today. Make sure you watch your patient because Beth is one of our worst
nurses. She also hides her medication errors." The student knows that this statement could be
considered:


A. Liabel
B. Slander
C. Fraud
D. Invasion of Privacy


- Duty owed to the client (accepting an assignment)
- Duty was breached (failure to meet the standard of care)
- Breach of duty caused the injury (Expert witness explains how the breach could have been
prevented; Use of the nurse practice act, job descriptions, hospital policies)

- Causation (must be a connection between the breach and client's injury) - Answer✔4
Elements of Malpractice


- Offenses against society
- Felony or misdemeanor

- Prosecution is by the state or federal government - Answer✔Criminal Law




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