AIT COMPREHENSIVE PREDICTOR STUDY|VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS|RATED GRADED A+ NEW UPDATE| 2026/2027
What do you do with incident reports? - ANSWER✔ These are to legally protect the facility- you will
not place them in the patient's chart, you will not chart on it either
What do you do when your patient leaves AMA - ANSWER✔ Educate them on the risks of leaving the
facility
What are the two main types of advanced directives? - ANSWER✔ Living will, durable power of
attorney
What is a tort? - ANSWER✔ A civil wrong that is used in lawsuits- like assault, batter, defamation,
false imprisonment, wrongful disclosure of information.... Ect
What is an unintentional tort? - ANSWER✔ Negligence, where the wrongdoer fails to provide care
What is malpractice? - ANSWER✔ This is any professional misconduct that is an unreasonable lack of
skill or professional abilities
Give four examples of what the BSN RN fails to do that results in malpractice suits - ANSWER✔ 1. Not
inserting a Foley Catheter correctly
2. Not taking appropriate steps to decrease clients temp
3. Not reporting worsening condition in a timely manner
4. Not preventing falls
Five situations where you would question provider orders - ANSWER✔ (1) Ambiguous orders (2)
Orders the client question
(3) Orders when the client condition has changed (4) Orders which does not match
with your experience or licensure requirement. (5) Doctors must cosign verbal
orders.
, True or false: RN Liscense
- You can copy your nursing lisencse
- You do not have to notify the state board if you moce - ANSWER✔ - True in some states: You must
write copy
- False: Always tell them
When you are working with the community in any setting you need to report the (6) following
situations/conditions to the authorities - ANSWER✔ •Child and elderly abuse
•Gun shot wounds
•Communicable diseases
•Ophthalmic neonatorium
•Phenoketouria
•Criminal acts
What are the two different types of liability and what are their definitions - ANSWER✔ `1. Individual-
each person is responsible for their own action, and it can be shared by a group like a hospital
2. Vicarious- Nurse practice act that defines the standard that nurses are supposed to perform under.
Like when the nurse accidently administers a medication to a client
What are elements of a malpractice suit? (5) - ANSWER✔ 1. Breach of nurse-patient relationship that
causes harm
2. Harm happens
3. There is a direct cause and effect relationship between the breaches of duties
4. Formidability- The professional could reasonable expect harm
5. invasion of privacy
Threatening to give a psychoctic client an injection if they do not behave is an example of this type of
tort - ANSWER✔ Assault
DETAILED ANSWERS|RATED GRADED A+ NEW UPDATE| 2026/2027
What do you do with incident reports? - ANSWER✔ These are to legally protect the facility- you will
not place them in the patient's chart, you will not chart on it either
What do you do when your patient leaves AMA - ANSWER✔ Educate them on the risks of leaving the
facility
What are the two main types of advanced directives? - ANSWER✔ Living will, durable power of
attorney
What is a tort? - ANSWER✔ A civil wrong that is used in lawsuits- like assault, batter, defamation,
false imprisonment, wrongful disclosure of information.... Ect
What is an unintentional tort? - ANSWER✔ Negligence, where the wrongdoer fails to provide care
What is malpractice? - ANSWER✔ This is any professional misconduct that is an unreasonable lack of
skill or professional abilities
Give four examples of what the BSN RN fails to do that results in malpractice suits - ANSWER✔ 1. Not
inserting a Foley Catheter correctly
2. Not taking appropriate steps to decrease clients temp
3. Not reporting worsening condition in a timely manner
4. Not preventing falls
Five situations where you would question provider orders - ANSWER✔ (1) Ambiguous orders (2)
Orders the client question
(3) Orders when the client condition has changed (4) Orders which does not match
with your experience or licensure requirement. (5) Doctors must cosign verbal
orders.
, True or false: RN Liscense
- You can copy your nursing lisencse
- You do not have to notify the state board if you moce - ANSWER✔ - True in some states: You must
write copy
- False: Always tell them
When you are working with the community in any setting you need to report the (6) following
situations/conditions to the authorities - ANSWER✔ •Child and elderly abuse
•Gun shot wounds
•Communicable diseases
•Ophthalmic neonatorium
•Phenoketouria
•Criminal acts
What are the two different types of liability and what are their definitions - ANSWER✔ `1. Individual-
each person is responsible for their own action, and it can be shared by a group like a hospital
2. Vicarious- Nurse practice act that defines the standard that nurses are supposed to perform under.
Like when the nurse accidently administers a medication to a client
What are elements of a malpractice suit? (5) - ANSWER✔ 1. Breach of nurse-patient relationship that
causes harm
2. Harm happens
3. There is a direct cause and effect relationship between the breaches of duties
4. Formidability- The professional could reasonable expect harm
5. invasion of privacy
Threatening to give a psychoctic client an injection if they do not behave is an example of this type of
tort - ANSWER✔ Assault
