NUR 1290 LATEST 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔government involvement - ✔✔- funding for nursing education and research
- nurse training act of 1964 now called nursing education act
- OSHA (safe working environments free from hazards)
- NINR)
- Nursing home regulations
✔✔nurse involvement in health policy and political action - ✔✔- increased role of the
state and federal governments in health, care health care reform
- nursing practice directly affected by policy development
- patient safety and health care quality
- nursing shortage
- advocacy
✔✔grassroots - ✔✔- register to vote and vote in elections
- join professional nursing organizations
- work in political campaigns
visit policy makers and their staff members
- send emails and phone calls
✔✔as an RN - ✔✔you can help shape the public opinion
✔✔ANA-PAC - ✔✔- political action committee; support candidates who promote nursing
issues
- ANA uses this to affect political process
✔✔when you are employed in a government agency... - ✔✔- you are NOT free to
engage in any political activity without restrictions
✔✔Civil Law - ✔✔- laws concerned with **private relations** between members of a
community
- law dictates behavior between private parties (lawsuit)
✔✔common law - ✔✔- law developed primarily from judicial decisions based on custom
and precedent, unwritten in statute code, and constituting the basis of the system, a
decision
✔✔Tort Law - ✔✔- civil wrong that unfairly causes someone else to suffer loss or harm
resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the act
- person who commits the act is called tortfeasor
✔✔Statutory Law - ✔✔- term used to define written laws
- enacted by legislative body
, - a bill proposed in legislature and voted upon
✔✔Assult - ✔✔- attempting to or threatening to touch a person without his/ her consent
(use physical force)
- EX: threatening a patient if they do not comply
✔✔Battery - ✔✔- touching a person without his/ her consent
- EX: carrying out treatment without consent
✔✔res ispa loquitur - ✔✔- acts speaks for itself
- EX: principle that the occurrence of an accident implies negligence
✔✔false imprisionment - ✔✔- confining a person without his/ her consent
- EX: using unwarranted restraints: physical or chemical
✔✔good Samaritan laws - ✔✔laws that protect health care providers and other rescuers
from liability if they render aid in an emergency
✔✔malpractice - ✔✔- improper, illegal, or negligent professional activity or treatment by
medical practitioner
✔✔negligence - ✔✔- unintentional conduct that falls below a standard of care
established for protection of others against unreasonable risk of harm
- EX: falls, medication error, failure to communicate, inadequate patient teaching
✔✔standard of care - ✔✔- degree of care, expertise, and judgement exercised by
reasonable person under the same circumstances
- EX: what would a prudent nurse have done
✔✔respondent superior - ✔✔- legal doctrine that states employee commits a tort or civil
wrong within scope of employment, the employer is held liable
✔✔duty - ✔✔- obligation to act or refrain from acting
✔✔breach of duty - ✔✔- failure to perform according to a specific standard of care once
duty is established
✔✔legal issues for nurses - ✔✔- negligence leads to malpractice suit
1. nurse has a duty to patient
2. duty was breached
3. breach of duty was cause of harm
4. damage or injury to the patient occurred
- nurse should have their own legal representation
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔government involvement - ✔✔- funding for nursing education and research
- nurse training act of 1964 now called nursing education act
- OSHA (safe working environments free from hazards)
- NINR)
- Nursing home regulations
✔✔nurse involvement in health policy and political action - ✔✔- increased role of the
state and federal governments in health, care health care reform
- nursing practice directly affected by policy development
- patient safety and health care quality
- nursing shortage
- advocacy
✔✔grassroots - ✔✔- register to vote and vote in elections
- join professional nursing organizations
- work in political campaigns
visit policy makers and their staff members
- send emails and phone calls
✔✔as an RN - ✔✔you can help shape the public opinion
✔✔ANA-PAC - ✔✔- political action committee; support candidates who promote nursing
issues
- ANA uses this to affect political process
✔✔when you are employed in a government agency... - ✔✔- you are NOT free to
engage in any political activity without restrictions
✔✔Civil Law - ✔✔- laws concerned with **private relations** between members of a
community
- law dictates behavior between private parties (lawsuit)
✔✔common law - ✔✔- law developed primarily from judicial decisions based on custom
and precedent, unwritten in statute code, and constituting the basis of the system, a
decision
✔✔Tort Law - ✔✔- civil wrong that unfairly causes someone else to suffer loss or harm
resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the act
- person who commits the act is called tortfeasor
✔✔Statutory Law - ✔✔- term used to define written laws
- enacted by legislative body
, - a bill proposed in legislature and voted upon
✔✔Assult - ✔✔- attempting to or threatening to touch a person without his/ her consent
(use physical force)
- EX: threatening a patient if they do not comply
✔✔Battery - ✔✔- touching a person without his/ her consent
- EX: carrying out treatment without consent
✔✔res ispa loquitur - ✔✔- acts speaks for itself
- EX: principle that the occurrence of an accident implies negligence
✔✔false imprisionment - ✔✔- confining a person without his/ her consent
- EX: using unwarranted restraints: physical or chemical
✔✔good Samaritan laws - ✔✔laws that protect health care providers and other rescuers
from liability if they render aid in an emergency
✔✔malpractice - ✔✔- improper, illegal, or negligent professional activity or treatment by
medical practitioner
✔✔negligence - ✔✔- unintentional conduct that falls below a standard of care
established for protection of others against unreasonable risk of harm
- EX: falls, medication error, failure to communicate, inadequate patient teaching
✔✔standard of care - ✔✔- degree of care, expertise, and judgement exercised by
reasonable person under the same circumstances
- EX: what would a prudent nurse have done
✔✔respondent superior - ✔✔- legal doctrine that states employee commits a tort or civil
wrong within scope of employment, the employer is held liable
✔✔duty - ✔✔- obligation to act or refrain from acting
✔✔breach of duty - ✔✔- failure to perform according to a specific standard of care once
duty is established
✔✔legal issues for nurses - ✔✔- negligence leads to malpractice suit
1. nurse has a duty to patient
2. duty was breached
3. breach of duty was cause of harm
4. damage or injury to the patient occurred
- nurse should have their own legal representation
