PROFESSIONAL GROWTH QUIZ #2 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT!!
, What is criminal law? - ANSWER a system of law concerned with the punishment of
those who commit crimes. Murder, manslaughter, theft, assult, active euthanasia, illegal
possession of controlled drug or substance
What is civil law? - ANSWER the system of law concerned with private relations
between members of a community rather than criminal, military, or religious affairs.
Legislative rules that regulate relationships among people
Duty of Care - ANSWER The duty of all persons, as established by tort law, to exercise
a reasonable amount of care in their dealings with others. Failure to exercise due care,
which is normally determined by the reasonable person standard, constitutes the tort of
negligence.
standard of care - ANSWER By which a nurse acts or fails to act are legally defined by
nurse practice acts and by the rule of reasonable and prudent aciton- what a sensible
and careful professional with similar preparation and experience would do in similar
circumstances.
Torts definition - ANSWER A tort is a civil wrong committed against a person or a
person's property. Battery and failure to obtain informed conset, are examples of torts.
Assault - ANSWER Can be described as an attempt or threat to touch another person
unjustifiably. Assault preceds battery; it is the act that causes the person to believe a
battery is about to occur. For example, the person who threatens someone by making a
menacing gesture with a club or closed fist is guilty of assault. A nurse who threatens a
client with an injection after the client refuses to take the medication orally would be
committing assault.
Battery - ANSWER is intential harmful or effensive contact with another person (or the
person's clothes or even something the person is carrying) without the person's
consent. It is not necessary that a battery actually result in harm to the plaintiff; instead
"offensive contact is enough, however trivial it may seem, for it may trigger retaliatory
measures by persons whose dignity and self-respect are threatened."
False Imprisonment - ANSWER is the intentional confining of a person within fixed
boundaries, without that person's consent. As others have explained, the name is
somewhat misleading.
invasion of privacy - ANSWER release of personal information without the individual's
consent
AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT!!
, What is criminal law? - ANSWER a system of law concerned with the punishment of
those who commit crimes. Murder, manslaughter, theft, assult, active euthanasia, illegal
possession of controlled drug or substance
What is civil law? - ANSWER the system of law concerned with private relations
between members of a community rather than criminal, military, or religious affairs.
Legislative rules that regulate relationships among people
Duty of Care - ANSWER The duty of all persons, as established by tort law, to exercise
a reasonable amount of care in their dealings with others. Failure to exercise due care,
which is normally determined by the reasonable person standard, constitutes the tort of
negligence.
standard of care - ANSWER By which a nurse acts or fails to act are legally defined by
nurse practice acts and by the rule of reasonable and prudent aciton- what a sensible
and careful professional with similar preparation and experience would do in similar
circumstances.
Torts definition - ANSWER A tort is a civil wrong committed against a person or a
person's property. Battery and failure to obtain informed conset, are examples of torts.
Assault - ANSWER Can be described as an attempt or threat to touch another person
unjustifiably. Assault preceds battery; it is the act that causes the person to believe a
battery is about to occur. For example, the person who threatens someone by making a
menacing gesture with a club or closed fist is guilty of assault. A nurse who threatens a
client with an injection after the client refuses to take the medication orally would be
committing assault.
Battery - ANSWER is intential harmful or effensive contact with another person (or the
person's clothes or even something the person is carrying) without the person's
consent. It is not necessary that a battery actually result in harm to the plaintiff; instead
"offensive contact is enough, however trivial it may seem, for it may trigger retaliatory
measures by persons whose dignity and self-respect are threatened."
False Imprisonment - ANSWER is the intentional confining of a person within fixed
boundaries, without that person's consent. As others have explained, the name is
somewhat misleading.
invasion of privacy - ANSWER release of personal information without the individual's
consent
