NURS366 Exam 2 Questions with Verified
Solutions
Pediatric blood glucose goals before meal & at bedtime ✔️✔️Before meal: 90-130 mg/dL
Bedtime: 90-150 mg/dL
Legal doctrine: law of the land, nurse practice act ✔️✔️Constitutional
Legal doctrine: lead by congress, social security act (Medicare), worker compensation act,
warning/probation, violation of nurse practice act ✔️✔️Administrative
Legal doctrine: state and federal statutes, nurses risk violating by high doses of painkillers,
failure to nourish, stealing meds/narcotics, witness without reporting for rape, murder, etc.,
protect your license and report suspicious findings, can include negligence, murder,
unauthorized drug possession ✔️✔️Criminal
Legal doctrine: agreement between two or more parties, bargain for exchange, verbal or oral
agreements can be legally binding but prefer it in writing, nursing, employment relations is
where this will be seen the most ✔️✔️Contract
Legal doctrine: child abuse prevention act, privacy act, good samaritan act (you cannot do
anything outside of your practice, cannot leave until someone relieves you, cannot accept any
payment) ✔️✔️Protective reporting laws
Legal doctrine: reparation of civil wrongs or injuries, an act or mission that harms someone, civil
(violation requests money, not jail time), most deeply impacts nursing care ✔️✔️Torts
6 legal doctrines that impact nursing practice ✔️✔️-Constitutional
-Administrative
,-Criminal
-Contract
-Protective reporting laws
-Torts
Intentional tort: an action that places another in apprehension of being touched in a manner
that is offensive, insulting or physically injurious without consent or authority ✔️✔️Assault
Intentional tort: contact with another or with their immediate personage without consent or
authority, the touching of another without permission ✔️✔️Battery
Intentional tort: interference with the right of possession of a person's own property
✔️✔️Conversion of property
Intentional tort: publication of anything injurious to the good name or reputation of another or
that tends to bring about another's dis-reputation, includes libel (written) or oral (slander)
✔️✔️Defamation
Intentional tort: the act of confining or restraining a person without his consent for no clinical
or legal reason
-AMA: offer a form to read and sign, if refuse, document ✔️✔️False imprisonment
Intentional tort: may be called extreme and outrageous conduct (conduct which goes beyond
that which is tolerated by society, and the conduct is calculated to cause mental distress)
✔️✔️Intentional infliction of emotional distress
Intentional tort: violation of the right to protection against unreasonable and unwarranted
interference of one's solitude; the violation of one's right to be left alone ✔️✔️Invasion of privacy
, 7 intentional torts ✔️✔️-Assault
-Battery
-Conversion of property
-Defamation
-False imprisonment
-Intentional infliction of emotional distress
-Invasion of privacy
Non-intentional tort: failure to exercise the degree of care that a person of ordinary prudence,
based on the reasonable man standard, would exercise under the same or similar
circumstances
-You were in charge of something that harmed another person by accident ✔️✔️Simply/ordinary
negligence
Non-intentional tort: failure of a professional person to act in ordinance with the prevalent
professional standards or failure to foresee potential consequences that a professional person,
having necessary skills and expertise to act in a professional manner, should foresee
-Elements: duty, breach, cause, foreseeable injury, damages ✔️✔️Malpractice
Liability for the acts of another under certain, limited circumstances ✔️✔️Vicarious liability
Hospital or agency held liable ✔️✔️Corporate liability
A unilateral, premature termination of the professional treatment relationship by the care
provider with neither adequate notice given the patient, nor the patient's consent
✔️✔️Abandonment
Solutions
Pediatric blood glucose goals before meal & at bedtime ✔️✔️Before meal: 90-130 mg/dL
Bedtime: 90-150 mg/dL
Legal doctrine: law of the land, nurse practice act ✔️✔️Constitutional
Legal doctrine: lead by congress, social security act (Medicare), worker compensation act,
warning/probation, violation of nurse practice act ✔️✔️Administrative
Legal doctrine: state and federal statutes, nurses risk violating by high doses of painkillers,
failure to nourish, stealing meds/narcotics, witness without reporting for rape, murder, etc.,
protect your license and report suspicious findings, can include negligence, murder,
unauthorized drug possession ✔️✔️Criminal
Legal doctrine: agreement between two or more parties, bargain for exchange, verbal or oral
agreements can be legally binding but prefer it in writing, nursing, employment relations is
where this will be seen the most ✔️✔️Contract
Legal doctrine: child abuse prevention act, privacy act, good samaritan act (you cannot do
anything outside of your practice, cannot leave until someone relieves you, cannot accept any
payment) ✔️✔️Protective reporting laws
Legal doctrine: reparation of civil wrongs or injuries, an act or mission that harms someone, civil
(violation requests money, not jail time), most deeply impacts nursing care ✔️✔️Torts
6 legal doctrines that impact nursing practice ✔️✔️-Constitutional
-Administrative
,-Criminal
-Contract
-Protective reporting laws
-Torts
Intentional tort: an action that places another in apprehension of being touched in a manner
that is offensive, insulting or physically injurious without consent or authority ✔️✔️Assault
Intentional tort: contact with another or with their immediate personage without consent or
authority, the touching of another without permission ✔️✔️Battery
Intentional tort: interference with the right of possession of a person's own property
✔️✔️Conversion of property
Intentional tort: publication of anything injurious to the good name or reputation of another or
that tends to bring about another's dis-reputation, includes libel (written) or oral (slander)
✔️✔️Defamation
Intentional tort: the act of confining or restraining a person without his consent for no clinical
or legal reason
-AMA: offer a form to read and sign, if refuse, document ✔️✔️False imprisonment
Intentional tort: may be called extreme and outrageous conduct (conduct which goes beyond
that which is tolerated by society, and the conduct is calculated to cause mental distress)
✔️✔️Intentional infliction of emotional distress
Intentional tort: violation of the right to protection against unreasonable and unwarranted
interference of one's solitude; the violation of one's right to be left alone ✔️✔️Invasion of privacy
, 7 intentional torts ✔️✔️-Assault
-Battery
-Conversion of property
-Defamation
-False imprisonment
-Intentional infliction of emotional distress
-Invasion of privacy
Non-intentional tort: failure to exercise the degree of care that a person of ordinary prudence,
based on the reasonable man standard, would exercise under the same or similar
circumstances
-You were in charge of something that harmed another person by accident ✔️✔️Simply/ordinary
negligence
Non-intentional tort: failure of a professional person to act in ordinance with the prevalent
professional standards or failure to foresee potential consequences that a professional person,
having necessary skills and expertise to act in a professional manner, should foresee
-Elements: duty, breach, cause, foreseeable injury, damages ✔️✔️Malpractice
Liability for the acts of another under certain, limited circumstances ✔️✔️Vicarious liability
Hospital or agency held liable ✔️✔️Corporate liability
A unilateral, premature termination of the professional treatment relationship by the care
provider with neither adequate notice given the patient, nor the patient's consent
✔️✔️Abandonment
