NFDN 1001 FINAL PAPER 2026 VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ Why is the Health Professions Act Important?. Answer: Public will
have a better understanding of the accountability of health professionals
and their regulatory colleges through common processes to register
health professionals, investigate and resolve complaints and discipline
practitioners
⩥ What are the parts of the Health Professions Act?. Answer: 1-9:
common to all of the Health Professions; establishment of colleges,
registration and continuing competence, investigation of complaints and
protection of professional titles
Part 10: profession specific
⩥ Definition of Standards of Care. Answer: The law requires a medical
practitioner to exercise the care and skill that could reasonably be
expected of a normal, prudent practitioner of the same experience and
standing
⩥ 4 elements of negligence. Answer: 1) the defendant must owe the
plaintiff a duty of care
2) the defendant must breach the standard of care established by law
3) the plaintiff must suffer an injury or loss
, 4) the defendant's conduct must have been the actual and legal cause of
the plaintiff's injury
⩥ Intentional torts. Answer: Assault
Battery
Invasion of privacy
False imprisonment
⩥ Intentional tort: Assault. Answer: Is conduct (such as a physical or
verbal threat) that creates in another person apprehension or fear of
imminent harmful or offensive contact. No actual contact is necessary.
⩥ Intentional Torts: Battery. Answer: Intentional physical contact with a
person without that persons consent.
⩥ Intentional Torts: Invasion of Privacy. Answer: Protects you from
unwanted intrusion into your private life
The nurses duty requires confidential info not to be shared with anyone
else except on a need-to-know basis
⩥ Difference between assault and battery. Answer: The nurse threatens
to give a patient an injection without the patients consent it is assault, if
the nurse actually gives the injection it is battery
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ Why is the Health Professions Act Important?. Answer: Public will
have a better understanding of the accountability of health professionals
and their regulatory colleges through common processes to register
health professionals, investigate and resolve complaints and discipline
practitioners
⩥ What are the parts of the Health Professions Act?. Answer: 1-9:
common to all of the Health Professions; establishment of colleges,
registration and continuing competence, investigation of complaints and
protection of professional titles
Part 10: profession specific
⩥ Definition of Standards of Care. Answer: The law requires a medical
practitioner to exercise the care and skill that could reasonably be
expected of a normal, prudent practitioner of the same experience and
standing
⩥ 4 elements of negligence. Answer: 1) the defendant must owe the
plaintiff a duty of care
2) the defendant must breach the standard of care established by law
3) the plaintiff must suffer an injury or loss
, 4) the defendant's conduct must have been the actual and legal cause of
the plaintiff's injury
⩥ Intentional torts. Answer: Assault
Battery
Invasion of privacy
False imprisonment
⩥ Intentional tort: Assault. Answer: Is conduct (such as a physical or
verbal threat) that creates in another person apprehension or fear of
imminent harmful or offensive contact. No actual contact is necessary.
⩥ Intentional Torts: Battery. Answer: Intentional physical contact with a
person without that persons consent.
⩥ Intentional Torts: Invasion of Privacy. Answer: Protects you from
unwanted intrusion into your private life
The nurses duty requires confidential info not to be shared with anyone
else except on a need-to-know basis
⩥ Difference between assault and battery. Answer: The nurse threatens
to give a patient an injection without the patients consent it is assault, if
the nurse actually gives the injection it is battery
