Nursing Jurisprudence Exam
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QUIZ:Jurisprudence
✓✓~ the science or philosophy of law
QUIZ: Sources of Law
✓✓~ -Constitutional Law: Federal, State
-Statutory Law: Federal, State
-Common Law
-Administrative Law
QUIZ: Criminal Law
✓✓~ Federal or state government attempting to deprive an
individual of life or liberty for something the law considers an
offence against society in general
QUIZ: Civil Law
✓✓~ Seeks to resolve disputes between private parties, which
often result in payment of money
QUIZ: Different Burden of Proof
,✓✓~ Beyond a reasonable doubt; preponderance of the
evidence
QUIZ: Types of Torts
✓✓~ -Negligence
-Intentional: Assault Battery False Imprisonment
-Quasi-Intentional: Defamation, Liable, Slander
QUIZ: Malpractice
✓✓~ Negligence committed by a person in his or her professional
capacity is malpractice. Also known as professional negligence.
Medical and nursing malpractice occur when a doctor or nurse fails
to do that which a reasonable, prudent doctor or nurse would do
under the same or similar circumstances, or does that which a
reasonable or prudent doctor or nurse would not do under the same
or similar circumstances.
QUIZ: Elements of a Nursing Malpractice Lawsuit
,✓✓~ Duty - the existence of a duty, owed by the nurse to a
patient, to conform to a recognized standard of care
Breach - a failure to conform to the required standard of care
Harm - an actual injury
Cause - there must be proof that the injury was caused by the
nurse's act or omission
QUIZ: Intentional Tort: Assault
✓✓~ Example of this tort: A nurse threatens to place an NG tube
in a client who is refusing to eat
Intentionally placing another in apprehension or fear that they will
suffer harmful or offensive contact.
QUIZ: Intentional Tort: Battery
✓✓~ Intentional contact that is harmful or offensive, or creating
the apprehension that such contact is imminent.
-false imprisonment accompanied by forceful restraint or threat of
restraint is BATTERY.
IE: Restraining a person to give an injection against their consent or
order
QUIZ: Intentional Tort: False Imprisonment
, ✓✓~ "unjustifiable detention of a person without legal warrant to
confine the person" (client has the right to leave AMA)
-false imprisonment accompanied by forceful restraint or threat of
restraint is BATTERY.
QUIZ: Quasi-Intentional Tort: Defamation
✓✓~ A communication that tends to hold the plaintiff up to hatred,
contempt or ridicule, or to cause him to be shunned or avoided.
Tarnishing the reputation of someone.
QUIZ: Quasi-Intentional Tort: Defamation Types
✓✓~ Types:
Libel - printed or broadcast
Slander - spoken
QUIZ: Nurse Practice Act (NPA)
Questions and Correct Detailed
Answers (Verified Answers)
QUIZ:Jurisprudence
✓✓~ the science or philosophy of law
QUIZ: Sources of Law
✓✓~ -Constitutional Law: Federal, State
-Statutory Law: Federal, State
-Common Law
-Administrative Law
QUIZ: Criminal Law
✓✓~ Federal or state government attempting to deprive an
individual of life or liberty for something the law considers an
offence against society in general
QUIZ: Civil Law
✓✓~ Seeks to resolve disputes between private parties, which
often result in payment of money
QUIZ: Different Burden of Proof
,✓✓~ Beyond a reasonable doubt; preponderance of the
evidence
QUIZ: Types of Torts
✓✓~ -Negligence
-Intentional: Assault Battery False Imprisonment
-Quasi-Intentional: Defamation, Liable, Slander
QUIZ: Malpractice
✓✓~ Negligence committed by a person in his or her professional
capacity is malpractice. Also known as professional negligence.
Medical and nursing malpractice occur when a doctor or nurse fails
to do that which a reasonable, prudent doctor or nurse would do
under the same or similar circumstances, or does that which a
reasonable or prudent doctor or nurse would not do under the same
or similar circumstances.
QUIZ: Elements of a Nursing Malpractice Lawsuit
,✓✓~ Duty - the existence of a duty, owed by the nurse to a
patient, to conform to a recognized standard of care
Breach - a failure to conform to the required standard of care
Harm - an actual injury
Cause - there must be proof that the injury was caused by the
nurse's act or omission
QUIZ: Intentional Tort: Assault
✓✓~ Example of this tort: A nurse threatens to place an NG tube
in a client who is refusing to eat
Intentionally placing another in apprehension or fear that they will
suffer harmful or offensive contact.
QUIZ: Intentional Tort: Battery
✓✓~ Intentional contact that is harmful or offensive, or creating
the apprehension that such contact is imminent.
-false imprisonment accompanied by forceful restraint or threat of
restraint is BATTERY.
IE: Restraining a person to give an injection against their consent or
order
QUIZ: Intentional Tort: False Imprisonment
, ✓✓~ "unjustifiable detention of a person without legal warrant to
confine the person" (client has the right to leave AMA)
-false imprisonment accompanied by forceful restraint or threat of
restraint is BATTERY.
QUIZ: Quasi-Intentional Tort: Defamation
✓✓~ A communication that tends to hold the plaintiff up to hatred,
contempt or ridicule, or to cause him to be shunned or avoided.
Tarnishing the reputation of someone.
QUIZ: Quasi-Intentional Tort: Defamation Types
✓✓~ Types:
Libel - printed or broadcast
Slander - spoken
QUIZ: Nurse Practice Act (NPA)
