Nursing Jurisprudence Exam Q’s & A’s 100%
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Negliegence ✔✔Failure to do something that a normally prudent person would
do
Negligence : Comission ✔✔Wrong doing
Negligence: Omission ✔✔Total neglect of care, not doing anything
Example of negligence in nursing ✔✔-telling a suicidal bipolar patient that it is
okay for them to
refuse their medication.
-Failure to report observations to Dr
-Mistaken ID
-Wrong dose, wrong medication
-Defects in equipment leading to falls
-Errors d/t family assistance
-Administer meds without Dr. order
Res Ipsa Loquitur ✔✔A doctrine under which negligence may be inferred simply
because an
event occurred, if it is the type of event that would not occur in the absence of
negligence.
Literally, the term means "the facts speak for themselves."
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Conditions to Establish Negligence Under "Res Ipsa Loquitor" ✔✔1. would not
normally occur
unless someone was negligent
2. injury caused by agency with control over defendant
3. plantiff did not engage in any manner that would tend to bring about the
injury
Respondeat Superior ✔✔"Let the master answer" an employer is vicariously
liable for the
behavior of an employee working within his or her scope of employment
Bonus Pater Familias ✔✔Paternalism. Good father of the family.
Employer is held liable upon finding that he has been negligent in the selection
of his employees
(culpa en eligiendo) or in the supervision of his employees (culpa in vigilando)
frolic ✔✔employee makes a minor departure from his emplyee's charge
detour ✔✔employee is acting on his own benefit, rather than a minor sidetrack
force majeure ✔✔unforeseeable circumstances that prevent someone from
fulfilling a contract
Malpractice ✔✔Failure by a health professional to meet accepted standards.
Improper or
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Negliegence ✔✔Failure to do something that a normally prudent person would
do
Negligence : Comission ✔✔Wrong doing
Negligence: Omission ✔✔Total neglect of care, not doing anything
Example of negligence in nursing ✔✔-telling a suicidal bipolar patient that it is
okay for them to
refuse their medication.
-Failure to report observations to Dr
-Mistaken ID
-Wrong dose, wrong medication
-Defects in equipment leading to falls
-Errors d/t family assistance
-Administer meds without Dr. order
Res Ipsa Loquitur ✔✔A doctrine under which negligence may be inferred simply
because an
event occurred, if it is the type of event that would not occur in the absence of
negligence.
Literally, the term means "the facts speak for themselves."
, Nursing Jurisprudence Exam Q’s & A’s 100%
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Conditions to Establish Negligence Under "Res Ipsa Loquitor" ✔✔1. would not
normally occur
unless someone was negligent
2. injury caused by agency with control over defendant
3. plantiff did not engage in any manner that would tend to bring about the
injury
Respondeat Superior ✔✔"Let the master answer" an employer is vicariously
liable for the
behavior of an employee working within his or her scope of employment
Bonus Pater Familias ✔✔Paternalism. Good father of the family.
Employer is held liable upon finding that he has been negligent in the selection
of his employees
(culpa en eligiendo) or in the supervision of his employees (culpa in vigilando)
frolic ✔✔employee makes a minor departure from his emplyee's charge
detour ✔✔employee is acting on his own benefit, rather than a minor sidetrack
force majeure ✔✔unforeseeable circumstances that prevent someone from
fulfilling a contract
Malpractice ✔✔Failure by a health professional to meet accepted standards.
Improper or
