Module 3A Quiz, Verified Study Materials for All Testing Exams

c) The nurse expert witness in a case describes two methods of providing the intervention in question. (There may well be more than one way to provide an intervention and still meet the standard of care. This is the basis of the two schools of thought doctrine.) Which situation supports the charge of malpractice against a professional nurse? A failure on the part of the nurse to exercise reasonable and prudent care in treating a patient (Malpractice is based on the nurse breaching the standard to provide reasonable and prudent care or duty owed to the patient.) A lawsuit is brought against a nurse in a rural hospital. The nurse replies that the standard of care for rural nurses is different from that for nurses working in large urban facilities. Is this a defensible position? No; nurses in rural settings must meet the same standards as those practicing in large urban areas. (Nurses are accountable for all standards of care as they pertain to their profession, no matter their practice setting.) What would the nurse identify as the most basic purpose of standards of care? To protect and safeguard the public as a whole A nurse is leaving the parking lot at the hospital and carelessly runs over a patient who was just discharged. Ironically, the nurse had been assigned to care for that patient that day. If the patient sues this nurse, which statement is true? The nurse can be held liable for negligence but not malpractice