Community Health Nursing Quiz 7

The nursing staff taking their morning breaks. One of the nursing assistants tells the group that the ward supervisor has acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The nursing assistant proceeds to tell the nursing staff that the supervisor probably got the disease from her drug addict husband. Which legal tort has the nursing assistant violated?

A nurse is making rounds and hears one of the clients is calling for help. A nurse immediately checks the client and finds it lying on the floor. The nurse assisted the client back to bed and performs a thorough assessment. The incident was documented and the physician was notified. Which of the following would the nurse documents on the incident report?

A client is rushed to the emergency room. The client sustained a severe head injury, multiple fractures, and unconscious. An emergency craniotomy is required. Regarding informed consent for the surgical procedure, which of the following is the best action?

A nurse is administering a medication to a client but refuses to take the prescribed medication. The nurse threatens the client telling if the medication is not taken orally, then it will be given by injection. This action by the nurse constitutes which legal tort?

The nurse is reviewing the prescribed medication of a newly admitted client. The nurse reviewed the order and notes that the physician has ordered the dose that is twice the amount the client is taking before admission. The nurse verifies the medication dosage before the administration. What is the next most appropriate nursing action?

A client is scheduled for a cardiac catheterization and has numerous questions regarding the procedure and has requested to speak to the physician. The nurse calls the physician and informs that the client wants to talk to him. When the physician arrives at the unit to visit the client he is very upset with the nurse. The nurse is outside the client’s room and hears the physician tells the client in a derogatory manner that the nurse “doesn’t know anything”. Which legal tort has the physician violated?

An individual wishes to donate his organ for transplantation. The person asks the nurse how to become an organ donor. The nurse includes which statement in the response to the client?

A client has returned to the nursing unit after surgery. A nurse is assigned to monitor the client’s condition. Over the past four hour, the client’s vital signs are deteriorating and the nurse does not recognize the significance of these changes in vital signs and take no action. The client later requires emergency surgery. The nurse could be prosecuted for inaction according to the definition of which of these terms?

A client, which as a famous police officer, is admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. The nurse gives medical information regarding the client’s condition

to a person who is assumed to be a family member. Later, the nurse found out that this person is not a family member of the client and the nurse realizes that she has violated which legal concept of the nurse-client relationship?

A nurse was hired to be a home care nurse to assist the family in caring for a newborn with congenital tracheoesopahgeal fistula who is receiving enteral feedings. The nurse receives a telephone call and a woman introduced herself to the nurse as a family friend and wishes to know the condition of the client and inquire if there is anything she can do to assist the parents. The best nursing action is to: