Laws and Regulatory

Question 1

Intentionally placing another in apprehension or fear that they will suffer harmful or offensive contact.

Answer 1

Intentional Tort: Assault

Question 2

Intentional contact that is harmful or offensive, or creating the apprehension that such contact is imminent.

Answer 2

Intentional Tort: Battery

Question 3

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.

Answer 3

Defamation

Question 4

Types of Defamation

Answer 4

Libel

Slander

Question 5

Occurs when one speaks falsely about another

Answer 5

Slander

Question 6

Written defamation of character (e.g., charting false entries in a medical record)

Answer 6

Libel

Question 7

________ is conduct that falls below the generally accepted standard of care of a reasonably prudent person

Answer 7

Negligence

Question 8

_________ is one type of negligence and often referred to as professional negligence. When nursing care falls below a standard of care, nursing malpractice results

nursing ________as the failure to use that degree of skill or learning ordinarily used under the same or similar circumstances by members of the nursing profession

Answer 8

Malpractice

Question 9

“All nurses are required to complete at least two contact hours in nursing jurisprudence and ethics prior to the end of every third licensure renewal cycle

Answer 9

Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) Requirement

Question 10

The practice of nursing is a right granted by a state to protect those who need nursing care. Provide safe parameters within which to work, as well as protect patients from unprofessional and unsafe nursing practice.

Answer 10

Nurse Practice Act

Question 11

Protects the public from unsafe nursing practice

Answer 11

Board of Nursing

Question 12

Unprofessional Conduct

Answer 12

Look at ppt.

Question 13

____ _______ is a process that protects a nurse from employer retaliation, suspension, termination, discipline, discrimination, and licensure sanction when a nurse makes a good faith request for peer review of an assignment or conduct the nurse is requested to perform and that the nurse believes could result in a violation of the NPA or Board rules

Answer 13

Safe Harbor

Question 14

Evaluation of:

• Nursing Services
• The qualifications of a nurse
• The quality of pt care rendered by a nurse
• the merits of a complaint concerning a nurse or nursing care
• a determination or recommendation regarding a complaint

Answer 14

Nursing Peer Review

Question 15

A nurse shall report to the board if the nurse has reasonable cause to suspect that:

1. Another nurse has engaged in conduct subject to reporting; or
2. the ability of a nursing student to perform the services of the nursing profession would be impaired by chemical dependency

Answer 15

Mandatory Reporting

Question 16

Nurse licensure allows a nurse to have one license in state of residency and practice physically or electronically in other compact or party states

Answer 16

Mutual recognition model

Question 17

The legal definition of the standard of care for nurses is defined as that of what a reasonable and prudent nurse would do when caring for a same or similar patient in the same or similar circumstances

Answer 17

Legal standard of nursing care