ADN 110 Exam 2 Questions With Correct
Answers A+
A nurse is sharing detailed patient information with her friend at the coffee shop. This invasion
of privacy is considered what? - Answer✔intentional tort
If a patient has not completed an informed consent document, a medical procedure performed
could be considered what? - Answer✔Battery
This occurs when a nurse fails to meet the standards of care and/or careless in their actions,
resulting injury to their patient's belongings - Answer✔Negligence
This involves words communicated verbally to a 3rd party that harm or injures the personal or
professional reputation of another person - Answer✔Slander
Respecting the rights of patients or their surrogates to make health care decision is known as -
Answer✔autonomy
This is a willful and purposeful misrepresentation that could cause or has caused loss or harm to
another person or property - Answer✔fraud
Patients have a right to refuse a medication, this is an example of what? - Answer✔autonomy
Keeping commitments, promises, and always acting in the patient's best interest is known as -
Answer✔fidelity
What is another term for professional negligence - Answer✔malpractice
Which term is defined as a formal systematic study of moral beliefs and values as they relate to
well being? - Answer✔ethics
Assault - Answer✔threat or attempt to make bodily contact with another person without their
permission
Battery - Answer✔assault that is carried out, unconsented physical contact
Defamation of character - Answer✔wrongfully hurting a person's good reputation
Slander - Answer✔spoken defamation
Libel - Answer✔written defamation