NUR 330 Midterm Exam – Questions With Accurate
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A staff nurse is facing a avoid applying any pressure to compromise personal
dilemma between values.
upholding personal care
standards and meeting An important way in which those in health care facilities
organizational goals. The and their managers can assist nursing professionals in
nurse manager understands resolving ethical dilemmas effectively is by neither
that the best way to assist explicitly nor implicitly pressuring them to go against
staff members in resolving their own ethical values (Cooper et al., 2003).
ethical dilemmas effectively
is to:
Nursing Code of Ethics
One of the two
The ANA identified two mechanisms that frame nursing
mechanisms that ensures
autonomy: the legal regulation of nursing practice via
autonomy in the nursing
state licensure and the professional regulation of
profession is the:
nursing practice via ethical codes of practice.
A nurse manager is state nurse practice act.
evaluating the efficiency of Nurse practice acts exist for each state and govern the
a process on the nursing legal practice of nursing, including standard of care,
unit. The manager believes delegation, and supervision.
that the unit could be more
efficient if one aspect of
this process were
delegated to unlicensed
personnel. To establish
whether the delegation of
this duty would be legal, he
should check with the:
, The court has found that a civil act.
registered nurse (RN) By definition, civil acts are wrongs that violate the rights
harmed a patient by of individuals by tort or breach of contract.
violating his rights. The
nurse is ordered to pay the
patient a large sum of
money. The court has
determined that the nurse
has committed a:
tort
The most common source of legal liability for nurses
The most common source and nurse managers is a tort. Negligent acts or
of legal liability for nurse omissions (unintentional torts) and various intentional
managers is a(n): acts (intentional torts), such as invasion of privacy or
assault and battery, commonly arise in clinical nursing
practice (Aiken, 2004).
On admission, the patient vicariously liable
was found to have a blood If a nurse negligently injured a client during the course
glucose level of 218. The of and within the scope of employment, not only would
RN knows that except in the nurse be directly liable for damages, but also the
emergency situations, it is health care organization would be vicariously liable.
hospital policy to obtain
physician's orders before
administering any
medication. Because the
on-call physician did not
return the page, the nurse
administered insulin
according to the common
sliding scale. Four hours
later, the patient was found
nonresponsive in her bed
and later died. According
to the autopsy, the patient
died from heart failure. Her
postmortem blood glucose
level was 22. Because of
the nurse's actions, the
admitting hospital may be
found to be:
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Terms in this set (40)
A staff nurse is facing a avoid applying any pressure to compromise personal
dilemma between values.
upholding personal care
standards and meeting An important way in which those in health care facilities
organizational goals. The and their managers can assist nursing professionals in
nurse manager understands resolving ethical dilemmas effectively is by neither
that the best way to assist explicitly nor implicitly pressuring them to go against
staff members in resolving their own ethical values (Cooper et al., 2003).
ethical dilemmas effectively
is to:
Nursing Code of Ethics
One of the two
The ANA identified two mechanisms that frame nursing
mechanisms that ensures
autonomy: the legal regulation of nursing practice via
autonomy in the nursing
state licensure and the professional regulation of
profession is the:
nursing practice via ethical codes of practice.
A nurse manager is state nurse practice act.
evaluating the efficiency of Nurse practice acts exist for each state and govern the
a process on the nursing legal practice of nursing, including standard of care,
unit. The manager believes delegation, and supervision.
that the unit could be more
efficient if one aspect of
this process were
delegated to unlicensed
personnel. To establish
whether the delegation of
this duty would be legal, he
should check with the:
, The court has found that a civil act.
registered nurse (RN) By definition, civil acts are wrongs that violate the rights
harmed a patient by of individuals by tort or breach of contract.
violating his rights. The
nurse is ordered to pay the
patient a large sum of
money. The court has
determined that the nurse
has committed a:
tort
The most common source of legal liability for nurses
The most common source and nurse managers is a tort. Negligent acts or
of legal liability for nurse omissions (unintentional torts) and various intentional
managers is a(n): acts (intentional torts), such as invasion of privacy or
assault and battery, commonly arise in clinical nursing
practice (Aiken, 2004).
On admission, the patient vicariously liable
was found to have a blood If a nurse negligently injured a client during the course
glucose level of 218. The of and within the scope of employment, not only would
RN knows that except in the nurse be directly liable for damages, but also the
emergency situations, it is health care organization would be vicariously liable.
hospital policy to obtain
physician's orders before
administering any
medication. Because the
on-call physician did not
return the page, the nurse
administered insulin
according to the common
sliding scale. Four hours
later, the patient was found
nonresponsive in her bed
and later died. According
to the autopsy, the patient
died from heart failure. Her
postmortem blood glucose
level was 22. Because of
the nurse's actions, the
admitting hospital may be
found to be:
