Nursing Guidelines

Question 1

Nurse Practice Act

Answer 1

• Regulates the practice of nursing
• Legally defines the scope of nursing
• Creates state board with authority to make and enforce rules for nursing practice
• Establishes criteria for education and licensure

Question 2

crime

Answer 2

violation punishable by the state

Question 3

tort

Answer 3

violation that is subject to action in a civil court with damages usually settled with money

Question 4

Intentional torts

Answer 4

fraud, assault, battery, defamation of character, invasion of privacy, false imprisonment

Question 5

assault

Answer 5

threat or an attempt to make bodily contact with another person without that person’s consent

Question 6

battery

Answer 6

an assault that is carried out

Question 7

negligence

Answer 7

performing an act that a reasonably prudent person under similar circumstances would not do or, conversely, would not do.

Question 8

is it the nurse’s responsibility to obtain a consent form?

Answer 8

No

Question 9

morals

Answer 9

principles and rules of right and wrong, private, personal commitment to values

Question 10

ethics

Answer 10

formal reasoning process used to determine right conduct, professionally and publicly stated