HESI LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT EXAM 2
2026 FULL REVISION PACK QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
◉ Nurse Practice Act provide the laws that? Answer: control the
practice of nursing in each state: 1. Assignments commensurate
w/education, experience and knowledge. 2. supervise care provided
by nursing personnel for which he/she is responsible
administratively responsible for. 3. Sterile/invasive procedures
assigned to prof. nurse (RN)
◉ Torts (utorts) Answer: Act involving injury/damage to another
resulting in civil liability(victim can sue)
◉ Negligence (utorts) Answer: THE (COMMISSION) OF DOING AN
ACT OR THE (OMISSION) OF NOT DOING AN ACT THAT A
REASONABLY PRUDENT PERSON WOULD HAVE PERFORMED IN
SIMILAR SITUATION
◉ Malpractice (utorts) Answer: Act or omission to act that breaches
the duty of due care and results in or is responsible for a person's
injuries.
,◉ 4 elements necessary to prove negligence/malpractice? Answer:
Duty, Breach of Duty, Injury/damages and Causation
◉ Duty Answer: Obligation to use due care-what a reasonable
prudent nurse would do, failure to care for to protect others against
unreasonable risk and anticipate foreseeable risks.
◉ Breech of Duty Answer: Failure to conform to the standard of
practice, thus creating a risk for the client. Ie leaving the bedrails
down.
◉ Injury/Damages Answer: Failure to meet standard of care, which
causes actual injury or damage to the client, either physical or
mental.
◉ Causation Answer: A connection exists between conduct and the
resulting injury referred to as" proximate cause/remoteness of
damage"
◉ Hospital Policies (utorts) Answer: provide guide for nursing
actions-not laws-but courts usually rule against nurses who have
violated employer's policies.
,◉ Incident reports (utorts) Answer: alert administration to possible
liability claims and need for investigation-do not protect against
legal action
◉ Examples of negligence/malpractice (utorts) Answer: burning a
client w/heating pad, leaving sponges/instruments in a client's body
after surgery, performing incomplete assessments, ignoring s and s
of bleeding, forgetting to give meds or give wrong dose
◉ Assault (Itorts) Answer: Mental/physical threat(forcing w/o
touching)-client to take medications
◉ Battery (Itorts) Answer: Touching, w/w out intent to do
harm(hitting/striking a client) If a mentally competent adult is force
to have treatment he/she has refused , battery occurs
◉ Invasion of privacy (Itorts) Answer: encroachment/trespassing on
anothers body/personality
◉ False imprisonment (Itorts INV of Priv) Answer: intentional
confinement or restraint of another person without authority or
justification and without that person's consent
◉ Exposure of a person (Itorts INV of Priv) Answer:
Exposure/discussion of clients case. **After death client has the
, right to be unobserved, excluded from unwarranted operations and
protected from unauthorized touching of the body**
◉ Defamation (Itorts INV of Priv) Answer: Divulgence of privileged
info/communication (e.g. through charts, conversations,
observations)
◉ Fraud (Itorts) Answer: Willful/purposeful misrepresentation that
could cause/ or has caused loss or harm to a person or property
◉ Examples of Fraud (Itorts) Answer: Presenting false credentials
for purpose of entering nursing school, obtaining license or
employment, describing myth regarding a treatment (e.g. placebo
has no side effects, telling procedure or x ray wont hurt)
◉ Crimes Answer: wrongs punishable by state, committed against
the state w/intent usually present
◉ Commission of a crime involves these behaviors. Answer: 1.
Person omits an act, when there is legal obligation, 2. Criminal
conspiracy=2 or more people agree to commit crime, 3. person
commits a deed contrary to criminal law, 4. Ass/giving aide to a
person to commit crime, 5. Ignoring law, 6. Assault (justified for self
defense=only enough force used to maintain self-protection), 7.
Search warrants required prior to searching, 8. Not reporting
suspected child abuse.
2026 FULL REVISION PACK QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
◉ Nurse Practice Act provide the laws that? Answer: control the
practice of nursing in each state: 1. Assignments commensurate
w/education, experience and knowledge. 2. supervise care provided
by nursing personnel for which he/she is responsible
administratively responsible for. 3. Sterile/invasive procedures
assigned to prof. nurse (RN)
◉ Torts (utorts) Answer: Act involving injury/damage to another
resulting in civil liability(victim can sue)
◉ Negligence (utorts) Answer: THE (COMMISSION) OF DOING AN
ACT OR THE (OMISSION) OF NOT DOING AN ACT THAT A
REASONABLY PRUDENT PERSON WOULD HAVE PERFORMED IN
SIMILAR SITUATION
◉ Malpractice (utorts) Answer: Act or omission to act that breaches
the duty of due care and results in or is responsible for a person's
injuries.
,◉ 4 elements necessary to prove negligence/malpractice? Answer:
Duty, Breach of Duty, Injury/damages and Causation
◉ Duty Answer: Obligation to use due care-what a reasonable
prudent nurse would do, failure to care for to protect others against
unreasonable risk and anticipate foreseeable risks.
◉ Breech of Duty Answer: Failure to conform to the standard of
practice, thus creating a risk for the client. Ie leaving the bedrails
down.
◉ Injury/Damages Answer: Failure to meet standard of care, which
causes actual injury or damage to the client, either physical or
mental.
◉ Causation Answer: A connection exists between conduct and the
resulting injury referred to as" proximate cause/remoteness of
damage"
◉ Hospital Policies (utorts) Answer: provide guide for nursing
actions-not laws-but courts usually rule against nurses who have
violated employer's policies.
,◉ Incident reports (utorts) Answer: alert administration to possible
liability claims and need for investigation-do not protect against
legal action
◉ Examples of negligence/malpractice (utorts) Answer: burning a
client w/heating pad, leaving sponges/instruments in a client's body
after surgery, performing incomplete assessments, ignoring s and s
of bleeding, forgetting to give meds or give wrong dose
◉ Assault (Itorts) Answer: Mental/physical threat(forcing w/o
touching)-client to take medications
◉ Battery (Itorts) Answer: Touching, w/w out intent to do
harm(hitting/striking a client) If a mentally competent adult is force
to have treatment he/she has refused , battery occurs
◉ Invasion of privacy (Itorts) Answer: encroachment/trespassing on
anothers body/personality
◉ False imprisonment (Itorts INV of Priv) Answer: intentional
confinement or restraint of another person without authority or
justification and without that person's consent
◉ Exposure of a person (Itorts INV of Priv) Answer:
Exposure/discussion of clients case. **After death client has the
, right to be unobserved, excluded from unwarranted operations and
protected from unauthorized touching of the body**
◉ Defamation (Itorts INV of Priv) Answer: Divulgence of privileged
info/communication (e.g. through charts, conversations,
observations)
◉ Fraud (Itorts) Answer: Willful/purposeful misrepresentation that
could cause/ or has caused loss or harm to a person or property
◉ Examples of Fraud (Itorts) Answer: Presenting false credentials
for purpose of entering nursing school, obtaining license or
employment, describing myth regarding a treatment (e.g. placebo
has no side effects, telling procedure or x ray wont hurt)
◉ Crimes Answer: wrongs punishable by state, committed against
the state w/intent usually present
◉ Commission of a crime involves these behaviors. Answer: 1.
Person omits an act, when there is legal obligation, 2. Criminal
conspiracy=2 or more people agree to commit crime, 3. person
commits a deed contrary to criminal law, 4. Ass/giving aide to a
person to commit crime, 5. Ignoring law, 6. Assault (justified for self
defense=only enough force used to maintain self-protection), 7.
Search warrants required prior to searching, 8. Not reporting
suspected child abuse.
