HESI LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
EXAM FINAL COMPREHENSIVE
ASSESSMENT TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
⩥ Nurse Practice Act provide the laws that?
Answer: control the practice of nursing in each state: 1. Assignments
commensurate w/education, experience and knowledge. 2. supervise
care provided by nursing personnel for which he/she is responsible
administratively responsible for. 3. Sterile/invasive procedures assigned
to prof. nurse (RN)
⩥ Torts (utorts)
Answer: Act involving injury/damage to another resulting in civil
liability(victim can sue)
⩥ Negligence (utorts)
Answer: THE (COMMISSION) OF DOING AN ACT OR THE
(OMISSION) OF NOT DOING AN ACT THAT A REASONABLY
PRUDENT PERSON WOULD HAVE PERFORMED IN SIMILAR
SITUATION
⩥ Malpractice (utorts)
,Answer: Act or omission to act that breaches the duty of due care and
results in or is responsible for a person's injuries.
⩥ 4 elements necessary to prove negligence/malpractice?
Answer: Duty, Breach of Duty, Injury/damages and Causation
⩥ Duty
Answer: Obligation to use due care-what a reasonable prudent nurse
would do, failure to care for to protect others against unreasonable risk
and anticipate foreseeable risks.
⩥ Breech of Duty
Answer: Failure to conform to the standard of practice, thus creating a
risk for the client. Ie leaving the bedrails down.
⩥ Injury/Damages
Answer: Failure to meet standard of care, which causes actual injury or
damage to the client, either physical or mental.
⩥ Causation
Answer: A connection exists between conduct and the resulting injury
referred to as" proximate cause/remoteness of damage"
⩥ Hospital Policies (utorts)
,Answer: provide guide for nursing actions-not laws-but courts usually
rule against nurses who have violated employer's policies.
⩥ Incident reports (utorts)
Answer: alert administration to possible liability claims and need for
investigation-do not protect against legal action
⩥ Examples of negligence/malpractice (utorts)
Answer: burning a client w/heating pad, leaving sponges/instruments in
a client's body after surgery, performing incomplete assessments,
ignoring s and s of bleeding, forgetting to give meds or give wrong dose
⩥ Assault (Itorts)
Answer: Mental/physical threat(forcing w/o touching)-client to take
medications
⩥ Battery (Itorts)
Answer: Touching, w/w out intent to do harm(hitting/striking a client) If
a mentally competent adult is force to have treatment he/she has refused
, battery occurs
⩥ Invasion of privacy (Itorts)
Answer: encroachment/trespassing on anothers body/personality
, ⩥ False imprisonment (Itorts INV of Priv)
Answer: intentional confinement or restraint of another person without
authority or justification and without that person's consent
⩥ Exposure of a person (Itorts INV of Priv)
Answer: Exposure/discussion of clients case. **After death client has
the right to be unobserved, excluded from unwarranted operations and
protected from unauthorized touching of the body**
⩥ Defamation (Itorts INV of Priv)
Answer: Divulgence of privileged info/communication (e.g. through
charts, conversations, observations)
⩥ Fraud (Itorts)
Answer: Willful/purposeful misrepresentation that could cause/ or has
caused loss or harm to a person or property
⩥ Examples of Fraud (Itorts)
Answer: Presenting false credentials for purpose of entering nursing
school, obtaining license or employment, describing myth regarding a
treatment (e.g. placebo has no side effects, telling procedure or x ray
wont hurt)
⩥ Crimes
EXAM FINAL COMPREHENSIVE
ASSESSMENT TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
⩥ Nurse Practice Act provide the laws that?
Answer: control the practice of nursing in each state: 1. Assignments
commensurate w/education, experience and knowledge. 2. supervise
care provided by nursing personnel for which he/she is responsible
administratively responsible for. 3. Sterile/invasive procedures assigned
to prof. nurse (RN)
⩥ Torts (utorts)
Answer: Act involving injury/damage to another resulting in civil
liability(victim can sue)
⩥ Negligence (utorts)
Answer: THE (COMMISSION) OF DOING AN ACT OR THE
(OMISSION) OF NOT DOING AN ACT THAT A REASONABLY
PRUDENT PERSON WOULD HAVE PERFORMED IN SIMILAR
SITUATION
⩥ Malpractice (utorts)
,Answer: Act or omission to act that breaches the duty of due care and
results in or is responsible for a person's injuries.
⩥ 4 elements necessary to prove negligence/malpractice?
Answer: Duty, Breach of Duty, Injury/damages and Causation
⩥ Duty
Answer: Obligation to use due care-what a reasonable prudent nurse
would do, failure to care for to protect others against unreasonable risk
and anticipate foreseeable risks.
⩥ Breech of Duty
Answer: Failure to conform to the standard of practice, thus creating a
risk for the client. Ie leaving the bedrails down.
⩥ Injury/Damages
Answer: Failure to meet standard of care, which causes actual injury or
damage to the client, either physical or mental.
⩥ Causation
Answer: A connection exists between conduct and the resulting injury
referred to as" proximate cause/remoteness of damage"
⩥ Hospital Policies (utorts)
,Answer: provide guide for nursing actions-not laws-but courts usually
rule against nurses who have violated employer's policies.
⩥ Incident reports (utorts)
Answer: alert administration to possible liability claims and need for
investigation-do not protect against legal action
⩥ Examples of negligence/malpractice (utorts)
Answer: burning a client w/heating pad, leaving sponges/instruments in
a client's body after surgery, performing incomplete assessments,
ignoring s and s of bleeding, forgetting to give meds or give wrong dose
⩥ Assault (Itorts)
Answer: Mental/physical threat(forcing w/o touching)-client to take
medications
⩥ Battery (Itorts)
Answer: Touching, w/w out intent to do harm(hitting/striking a client) If
a mentally competent adult is force to have treatment he/she has refused
, battery occurs
⩥ Invasion of privacy (Itorts)
Answer: encroachment/trespassing on anothers body/personality
, ⩥ False imprisonment (Itorts INV of Priv)
Answer: intentional confinement or restraint of another person without
authority or justification and without that person's consent
⩥ Exposure of a person (Itorts INV of Priv)
Answer: Exposure/discussion of clients case. **After death client has
the right to be unobserved, excluded from unwarranted operations and
protected from unauthorized touching of the body**
⩥ Defamation (Itorts INV of Priv)
Answer: Divulgence of privileged info/communication (e.g. through
charts, conversations, observations)
⩥ Fraud (Itorts)
Answer: Willful/purposeful misrepresentation that could cause/ or has
caused loss or harm to a person or property
⩥ Examples of Fraud (Itorts)
Answer: Presenting false credentials for purpose of entering nursing
school, obtaining license or employment, describing myth regarding a
treatment (e.g. placebo has no side effects, telling procedure or x ray
wont hurt)
⩥ Crimes
