Intro Nursing Test #1 – UTMB UPDATED
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Statutory Laws - CORRECT ANSWER - Created by state legislation
- Nurse Practice act - describes and defines legal boundaries of nursing practice
Created by US Congress
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - protects the rights of the disabled within the
workplace
Administrative/ Regulatory LAw - CORRECT ANSWER - Decisions are made by
administrative bodies
ex: BON rules and regulations; a nurse's responsibility to report unethical practice
Case/Common Law - CORRECT ANSWER - Decisions made in court
- informed consent
- patients right to refuse treatment
- negligence
- malpractice
What are the 2 types of statutory laws? - CORRECT ANSWER - Civil and criminal
Civil Laws - CORRECT ANSWER - - protects the right of individuals
- provides fair and equal treatment
- damages lead to fines or public service
Ex: Nurse is negligent
,Criminal Laws - CORRECT ANSWER - - protect society as a whole
- felony - crime that has penalty of imprisonment for more than 1 yr or death
- misdemeanor - less serious crime with a fine or imprisonment less than 1 yr
Ex: nurse is misusing controlled substances
Tort - CORRECT ANSWER - Civil wrong made against a person or property
- 3 types : Intentional, quasi-intentional, unintentional
Intentional - CORRECT ANSWER - Willful act that violates ones rights. 3 types:
Assault- action that places a person in apprehension of a harmful or offensive contact
ie: gperforming surgery without signed consent
Battery- intentional touching w/o consent
ie: threatening to give injection and actually doing it
False Imprisonment - unjustified restraint of a person w/o legal warrant
Quasi-intentional - CORRECT ANSWER - Intent is lacking but direct cause occurs.
Includes:
HIPPA- patient privacy
Slander - spoken
Libel - written
Unintentional - CORRECT ANSWER - Negligence - what an ordinary person would do
, Malpractice - professional negligence, nurse not carrying out duty causes injury
Prudence - CORRECT ANSWER - The ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use
of reason; skills and good judgement is the use of resources
Board of Nursing (BON) - CORRECT ANSWER - -protects public from unsafe nursing
practice
-provides approval for nursing education programs
- issues licenses
- provides nursing practice and education guidance to current nurses
- subject to TX Sunset Act
Nursing Practice Act - CORRECT ANSWER - - Passed March 1909
- marked a milestone in health care of citizens in TX
BON board members - CORRECT ANSWER - - consists of 13 members that are selected
by the governor
- 6 nurses
- 3 nurse faculty members of SONs
- 4 members who represent the public
BON Licensure - CORRECT ANSWER - - initial RN licensure
- graduate from approved school
- taken NCLEX-RN exam
- pass TX jurisprudence exam
- criminal background check
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Statutory Laws - CORRECT ANSWER - Created by state legislation
- Nurse Practice act - describes and defines legal boundaries of nursing practice
Created by US Congress
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - protects the rights of the disabled within the
workplace
Administrative/ Regulatory LAw - CORRECT ANSWER - Decisions are made by
administrative bodies
ex: BON rules and regulations; a nurse's responsibility to report unethical practice
Case/Common Law - CORRECT ANSWER - Decisions made in court
- informed consent
- patients right to refuse treatment
- negligence
- malpractice
What are the 2 types of statutory laws? - CORRECT ANSWER - Civil and criminal
Civil Laws - CORRECT ANSWER - - protects the right of individuals
- provides fair and equal treatment
- damages lead to fines or public service
Ex: Nurse is negligent
,Criminal Laws - CORRECT ANSWER - - protect society as a whole
- felony - crime that has penalty of imprisonment for more than 1 yr or death
- misdemeanor - less serious crime with a fine or imprisonment less than 1 yr
Ex: nurse is misusing controlled substances
Tort - CORRECT ANSWER - Civil wrong made against a person or property
- 3 types : Intentional, quasi-intentional, unintentional
Intentional - CORRECT ANSWER - Willful act that violates ones rights. 3 types:
Assault- action that places a person in apprehension of a harmful or offensive contact
ie: gperforming surgery without signed consent
Battery- intentional touching w/o consent
ie: threatening to give injection and actually doing it
False Imprisonment - unjustified restraint of a person w/o legal warrant
Quasi-intentional - CORRECT ANSWER - Intent is lacking but direct cause occurs.
Includes:
HIPPA- patient privacy
Slander - spoken
Libel - written
Unintentional - CORRECT ANSWER - Negligence - what an ordinary person would do
, Malpractice - professional negligence, nurse not carrying out duty causes injury
Prudence - CORRECT ANSWER - The ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use
of reason; skills and good judgement is the use of resources
Board of Nursing (BON) - CORRECT ANSWER - -protects public from unsafe nursing
practice
-provides approval for nursing education programs
- issues licenses
- provides nursing practice and education guidance to current nurses
- subject to TX Sunset Act
Nursing Practice Act - CORRECT ANSWER - - Passed March 1909
- marked a milestone in health care of citizens in TX
BON board members - CORRECT ANSWER - - consists of 13 members that are selected
by the governor
- 6 nurses
- 3 nurse faculty members of SONs
- 4 members who represent the public
BON Licensure - CORRECT ANSWER - - initial RN licensure
- graduate from approved school
- taken NCLEX-RN exam
- pass TX jurisprudence exam
- criminal background check
