Nursing Jurisprudence Exam with correct detailed answers || || || || || ||
Negliegence - ✔✔Failure to do something that a normally prudent person would do || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Negligence : Comission - ✔✔Wrong doing || || || || ||
Negligence: Omission - ✔✔Total neglect of care, not doing anything || || || || || || || || ||
Example of negligence in nursing - ✔✔-telling a suicidal bipolar patient that it is okay for them to
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refuse their medication.
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-Failure to report observations to Dr
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-Mistaken ID ||
-Wrong dose, wrong medication || || ||
-Defects in equipment leading to falls || || || || ||
-Errors d/t family assistance || || ||
-Administer meds without Dr. order || || || ||
Res Ipsa Loquitur - ✔✔A doctrine under which negligence may be inferred simply because an
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event occurred, if it is the type of event that would not occur in the absence of negligence.
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Literally, the term means "the facts speak for themselves."
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Conditions to Establish Negligence Under "Res Ipsa Loquitor" - ✔✔1. would not normally occur
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unless someone was negligent
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2. injury caused by agency with control over defendant
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3. plantiff did not engage in any manner that would tend to bring about the injury
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Respondeat Superior - ✔✔"Let the master answer" an employer is vicariously liable for the
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behavior of an employee working within his or her scope of employment
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, Bonus Pater Familias - ✔✔Paternalism. Good father of the family.
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Employer is held liable upon finding that he has been negligent in the selection of his employees
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(culpa en eligiendo) or in the supervision of his employees (culpa in vigilando)
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frolic - ✔✔employee makes a minor departure from his emplyee's charge
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detour - ✔✔employee is acting on his own benefit, rather than a minor sidetrack
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force majeure - ✔✔unforeseeable circumstances that prevent someone from fulfilling a contract
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Malpractice - ✔✔Failure by a health professional to meet accepted standards. Improper or
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unskillful care. ||
Example of malpractice - ✔✔nurse administers too large dose of medication due to calculation
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error.
Anesthesia related complications. || ||
Failure to follow advance directive.
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incompetence - ✔✔Acts or conducts that are not authorized or licensed to perform || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Five Rights of Delegation - ✔✔right task
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right circumstance
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right person
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right direction/communication
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right supervision/evaluation
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Liability of Nurses for Work of Students - ✔✔-Should be under supervision of CI
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Negliegence - ✔✔Failure to do something that a normally prudent person would do || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Negligence : Comission - ✔✔Wrong doing || || || || ||
Negligence: Omission - ✔✔Total neglect of care, not doing anything || || || || || || || || ||
Example of negligence in nursing - ✔✔-telling a suicidal bipolar patient that it is okay for them to
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refuse their medication.
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-Failure to report observations to Dr
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-Mistaken ID ||
-Wrong dose, wrong medication || || ||
-Defects in equipment leading to falls || || || || ||
-Errors d/t family assistance || || ||
-Administer meds without Dr. order || || || ||
Res Ipsa Loquitur - ✔✔A doctrine under which negligence may be inferred simply because an
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event occurred, if it is the type of event that would not occur in the absence of negligence.
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Literally, the term means "the facts speak for themselves."
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Conditions to Establish Negligence Under "Res Ipsa Loquitor" - ✔✔1. would not normally occur
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unless someone was negligent
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2. injury caused by agency with control over defendant
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3. plantiff did not engage in any manner that would tend to bring about the injury
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Respondeat Superior - ✔✔"Let the master answer" an employer is vicariously liable for the
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behavior of an employee working within his or her scope of employment
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, Bonus Pater Familias - ✔✔Paternalism. Good father of the family.
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Employer is held liable upon finding that he has been negligent in the selection of his employees
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(culpa en eligiendo) or in the supervision of his employees (culpa in vigilando)
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frolic - ✔✔employee makes a minor departure from his emplyee's charge
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detour - ✔✔employee is acting on his own benefit, rather than a minor sidetrack
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force majeure - ✔✔unforeseeable circumstances that prevent someone from fulfilling a contract
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Malpractice - ✔✔Failure by a health professional to meet accepted standards. Improper or
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unskillful care. ||
Example of malpractice - ✔✔nurse administers too large dose of medication due to calculation
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error.
Anesthesia related complications. || ||
Failure to follow advance directive.
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incompetence - ✔✔Acts or conducts that are not authorized or licensed to perform || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Five Rights of Delegation - ✔✔right task
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right circumstance
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right person
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right direction/communication
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right supervision/evaluation
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Liability of Nurses for Work of Students - ✔✔-Should be under supervision of CI
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