EVOLVE HESI LEADERSHIP 114 2026 PATIENT
SAFETY AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT DRILL
PACK ANSWER SHEET
◉ Nurse Practice Act provide the laws that?
Answer: control the practice of nursing in each state: 1. Assignments
commensurate w/education, experience and knowledge. 2.
supervise care provided by nursing personnel for which he/she is
responsible administratively responsible for. 3. Sterile/invasive
procedures assigned to prof. nurse (RN)
◉ Torts (utorts)
Answer: Act involving injury/damage to another resulting in civil
liability(victim can sue)
◉ Negligence (utorts)
Answer: THE (COMMISSION) OF DOING AN ACT OR THE
(OMISSION) OF NOT DOING AN ACT THAT A REASONABLY
PRUDENT PERSON WOULD HAVE PERFORMED IN SIMILAR
SITUATION
◉ Malpractice (utorts)
,Answer: Act or omission to act that breaches the duty of due care
and results in or is responsible for a person's injuries.
◉ 4 elements necessary to prove negligence/malpractice?
Answer: Duty, Breach of Duty, Injury/damages and Causation
◉ Duty
Answer: Obligation to use due care-what a reasonable prudent nurse
would do, failure to care for to protect others against unreasonable
risk and anticipate foreseeable risks.
◉ Breech of Duty
Answer: Failure to conform to the standard of practice, thus creating
a risk for the client. Ie leaving the bedrails down.
◉ Injury/Damages
Answer: Failure to meet standard of care, which causes actual injury
or damage to the client, either physical or mental.
◉ Causation
Answer: A connection exists between conduct and the resulting
injury referred to as" proximate cause/remoteness of damage"
,◉ Hospital Policies (utorts)
Answer: provide guide for nursing actions-not laws-but courts
usually rule against nurses who have violated employer's policies.
◉ Incident reports (utorts)
Answer: alert administration to possible liability claims and need for
investigation-do not protect against legal action
◉ Examples of negligence/malpractice (utorts)
Answer: burning a client w/heating pad, leaving
sponges/instruments in a client's body after surgery, performing
incomplete assessments, ignoring s and s of bleeding, forgetting to
give meds or give wrong dose
◉ Assault (Itorts)
Answer: Mental/physical threat(forcing w/o touching)-client to take
medications
◉ Battery (Itorts)
Answer: Touching, w/w out intent to do harm(hitting/striking a
client) If a mentally competent adult is force to have treatment
he/she has refused , battery occurs
◉ Invasion of privacy (Itorts)
, Answer: encroachment/trespassing on anothers body/personality
◉ False imprisonment (Itorts INV of Priv)
Answer: intentional confinement or restraint of another person
without authority or justification and without that person's consent
◉ Exposure of a person (Itorts INV of Priv)
Answer: Exposure/discussion of clients case. **After death client has
the right to be unobserved, excluded from unwarranted operations
and protected from unauthorized touching of the body**
◉ Defamation (Itorts INV of Priv)
Answer: Divulgence of privileged info/communication (e.g. through
charts, conversations, observations)
◉ Fraud (Itorts)
Answer: Willful/purposeful misrepresentation that could cause/ or
has caused loss or harm to a person or property
◉ Examples of Fraud (Itorts)
Answer: Presenting false credentials for purpose of entering nursing
school, obtaining license or employment, describing myth regarding
a treatment (e.g. placebo has no side effects, telling procedure or x
ray wont hurt)
SAFETY AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT DRILL
PACK ANSWER SHEET
◉ Nurse Practice Act provide the laws that?
Answer: control the practice of nursing in each state: 1. Assignments
commensurate w/education, experience and knowledge. 2.
supervise care provided by nursing personnel for which he/she is
responsible administratively responsible for. 3. Sterile/invasive
procedures assigned to prof. nurse (RN)
◉ Torts (utorts)
Answer: Act involving injury/damage to another resulting in civil
liability(victim can sue)
◉ Negligence (utorts)
Answer: THE (COMMISSION) OF DOING AN ACT OR THE
(OMISSION) OF NOT DOING AN ACT THAT A REASONABLY
PRUDENT PERSON WOULD HAVE PERFORMED IN SIMILAR
SITUATION
◉ Malpractice (utorts)
,Answer: Act or omission to act that breaches the duty of due care
and results in or is responsible for a person's injuries.
◉ 4 elements necessary to prove negligence/malpractice?
Answer: Duty, Breach of Duty, Injury/damages and Causation
◉ Duty
Answer: Obligation to use due care-what a reasonable prudent nurse
would do, failure to care for to protect others against unreasonable
risk and anticipate foreseeable risks.
◉ Breech of Duty
Answer: Failure to conform to the standard of practice, thus creating
a risk for the client. Ie leaving the bedrails down.
◉ Injury/Damages
Answer: Failure to meet standard of care, which causes actual injury
or damage to the client, either physical or mental.
◉ Causation
Answer: A connection exists between conduct and the resulting
injury referred to as" proximate cause/remoteness of damage"
,◉ Hospital Policies (utorts)
Answer: provide guide for nursing actions-not laws-but courts
usually rule against nurses who have violated employer's policies.
◉ Incident reports (utorts)
Answer: alert administration to possible liability claims and need for
investigation-do not protect against legal action
◉ Examples of negligence/malpractice (utorts)
Answer: burning a client w/heating pad, leaving
sponges/instruments in a client's body after surgery, performing
incomplete assessments, ignoring s and s of bleeding, forgetting to
give meds or give wrong dose
◉ Assault (Itorts)
Answer: Mental/physical threat(forcing w/o touching)-client to take
medications
◉ Battery (Itorts)
Answer: Touching, w/w out intent to do harm(hitting/striking a
client) If a mentally competent adult is force to have treatment
he/she has refused , battery occurs
◉ Invasion of privacy (Itorts)
, Answer: encroachment/trespassing on anothers body/personality
◉ False imprisonment (Itorts INV of Priv)
Answer: intentional confinement or restraint of another person
without authority or justification and without that person's consent
◉ Exposure of a person (Itorts INV of Priv)
Answer: Exposure/discussion of clients case. **After death client has
the right to be unobserved, excluded from unwarranted operations
and protected from unauthorized touching of the body**
◉ Defamation (Itorts INV of Priv)
Answer: Divulgence of privileged info/communication (e.g. through
charts, conversations, observations)
◉ Fraud (Itorts)
Answer: Willful/purposeful misrepresentation that could cause/ or
has caused loss or harm to a person or property
◉ Examples of Fraud (Itorts)
Answer: Presenting false credentials for purpose of entering nursing
school, obtaining license or employment, describing myth regarding
a treatment (e.g. placebo has no side effects, telling procedure or x
ray wont hurt)
