HESI Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN Examination

What types of procedures should be assigned to professional nurses? - Answer-Sterile or invasive procedures. Negligence is measured by reasonableness. What question might the nurse ask when determining such reasonableness? - Answer-Would a reasonable and prudent nurse act in the same manner under the same circumstances? List the 4 elements that are necessary to prove negligence. - Answer-Duty. Failure to protect client again unreasonable risk. Breach of duty. Failure to perform according to established standards. Causation. A connection exists between conduct of the nurse and the resulting damage. Damages. Damage is done to the client, physical or mental. Define an intentional tort and five one example. - Answer-Conduct causing damage to another person in a willful or intentional way without just cause. Example Hitting a client out of anger, not in a manner of self protection. Voluntary admission - Answer-Client admits self to an institution for treatment and restrains his or her civil rights. He or she may leave at any time. Involuntary admission - Answer-Someone other than client applies for the client's admission to an institution requires certification by 1 or 2 health care providers that the person is a danger to self or others. List 5 activities a person who is declared incompetent cannot perform. - Answer-Vote, make contracts or wills, drive a care, sue or be sued, hold a professional license. Name 3 legal requirements of a surgical permit - Answer-Voluntary, informed, and written. Who may give consent for medical treatment? - Answer-Alert, coherent, or otherwise competent adults, a parent or legal guardian, a person in loco parentis of minors or incompetent adults. What law protects the nurse who provides care or gives aid in an emergency situation? - AnswerThe Good Samaritan Act. What action should the nurse take if he or she questions a health care provider's prescription that they believe is wrong? - Answer-Inform the health care provider. Record that the health care provider was informed and the health care provider's response to such information. Inform the nursing supervisor. Refuse to carry out the prescription.