NFDN 1001 Unit 10
Professional practice's and
Ethics Comprehensive
Questions (Frequently Most
Tested) with Verified Answers
Litigation - Answer: Lawsuit or the process of taking legal action.
Adverse Event - Answer: Unintentional injuries or accident caused by errors in HealthCare.
Damages - Answer: Money that may be awarded
Allegations - Answer: A statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal, which has not
been proved
Negligence - Answer: careless neglect, often resulting in injury
Malpractice - Answer: Failure by a health professional to meet accepted standards
Stadard of care - Answer: The expected knowledge and accountability of the nurse.
Tort - Answer: Civil wrong committed against another person
Intentional tort - Answer: A wrongful act knowingly committed. Examples are Assault, battery, unlawful
imprisonment, sexual assault.
Unintentional Tort - Answer: Negligence and malpractice. Examples are not performing standard of care,
not checking identification of patient.
, Assault - Answer: Unlawful threat or attempt to do bodily injury to another.
If a nurse threatens to restrain a patient, does the patient need physical contact of the nurse to confirm
assault? - Answer: No, no contact needs to happen
A nurse giving an injection without a patients consent is an example of : - Answer: Battery
Interfering with a persons individual liberty and basic rights and confining someone against their will
with the use of restraints. - Answer: unlawful Confinement/False imprisonment
4 types of restraints - Answer: 1. chemical
2. physical
3. Mechanical
4. environmental
4 criteria to be considered negligence - Answer: 1. The nurse owed a duty of care to patient.
2. Nurse did not meet the standard's of care.
3. Patients was injured.
4. Injury caused by nurse's failure to carry out duty of care.
Does the incident of negligence have to be proven ? - Answer: yes
If a you ask a patient if you can start an IV and they hold out their arm, what is this called? - Answer:
implied consent
As a LPN, is it your responsibility to obtain consent from your patient for a procedure? - Answer: No, it is
not the nurses responsibility to get consent.
Can a parent sign for a consent for their child under the age of 18 years of age. - Answer: Yes
Professional practice's and
Ethics Comprehensive
Questions (Frequently Most
Tested) with Verified Answers
Litigation - Answer: Lawsuit or the process of taking legal action.
Adverse Event - Answer: Unintentional injuries or accident caused by errors in HealthCare.
Damages - Answer: Money that may be awarded
Allegations - Answer: A statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal, which has not
been proved
Negligence - Answer: careless neglect, often resulting in injury
Malpractice - Answer: Failure by a health professional to meet accepted standards
Stadard of care - Answer: The expected knowledge and accountability of the nurse.
Tort - Answer: Civil wrong committed against another person
Intentional tort - Answer: A wrongful act knowingly committed. Examples are Assault, battery, unlawful
imprisonment, sexual assault.
Unintentional Tort - Answer: Negligence and malpractice. Examples are not performing standard of care,
not checking identification of patient.
, Assault - Answer: Unlawful threat or attempt to do bodily injury to another.
If a nurse threatens to restrain a patient, does the patient need physical contact of the nurse to confirm
assault? - Answer: No, no contact needs to happen
A nurse giving an injection without a patients consent is an example of : - Answer: Battery
Interfering with a persons individual liberty and basic rights and confining someone against their will
with the use of restraints. - Answer: unlawful Confinement/False imprisonment
4 types of restraints - Answer: 1. chemical
2. physical
3. Mechanical
4. environmental
4 criteria to be considered negligence - Answer: 1. The nurse owed a duty of care to patient.
2. Nurse did not meet the standard's of care.
3. Patients was injured.
4. Injury caused by nurse's failure to carry out duty of care.
Does the incident of negligence have to be proven ? - Answer: yes
If a you ask a patient if you can start an IV and they hold out their arm, what is this called? - Answer:
implied consent
As a LPN, is it your responsibility to obtain consent from your patient for a procedure? - Answer: No, it is
not the nurses responsibility to get consent.
Can a parent sign for a consent for their child under the age of 18 years of age. - Answer: Yes
