Fundamentals Patient Care: Edapt:
Legal Aspect of Providing Care
Question and answers verified to pass
2025/2026
The nurse notes that a living will is in the client's medical record. Which statement represents the best
description of guidelines a nurse would follow in this case? - correct answer ✔A living will is invoked
only when the client has a terminal condition or is in a persistent vegetative state.
Match the definition below with the type of law it describes:
1. Legislation passed by the U.S. Congress and the state legislatures is civil or criminal.
2. Protects the rights of individuals by settling disputes between citizens.
3. Defines nursing standards that must be met within individual states.
4. Defines offenses and punishments for those who threaten, harm, or endanger society.
5. Decisions are made based on previous court cases. - correct answer ✔1. Statutory law
2. Civil law
3. Nurse Practice Acts
4. Criminal law
5. Case law
Ordinarily, minors may not consent to medical treatment for themselves. The nurse understands that
this does not apply to emancipated minors and unemancipated minors in certain situations. For each
situation listed, indicate if consent can be provided by an emancipated or unemancipated minor.
1. Pregnancy
2. Minor parent for their child
3. Elective surgery
, 4. Sexually transmitted infection treatment
5. Substance use treatment
6. Organ donation
7. Outpatient mental health treatment
8. Sports related physical examination - correct answer ✔1. Both
2. Both
3. Consent by Emancipated Minors
4. Both
5. Both
6. Consent by Emancipated Minors
7. Both
8. Consent by Emancipated Minors
For each situation, use the first drop-down menu to indicate if the actions involved were intentional,
quasi-intentional, or unintentional. Use the second drop-down menu to indicate which tort was
committed.
1. The unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) tells a school-aged client who is not cooperating at bedtime
that the nurse will give them a shot if they don't behave. The UAP's actions were: ___(1A)___
The tort committed was: ___(1B)___
2. The nurse caring for an elderly client in a residential memory care facility is concerned that Mrs.
Baxter (pronouns: she/her/hers) is at risk of malnourishment because she will not sit down long enough
to eat her meals. The nurse seats Mrs. Baxter in a wheelchair with the brakes engaged at the table
during lunch. After 5 minutes, Mrs. Baxter wants to leave the dining room. The nurse knows that the
client is unable to unlock the wheelchair and ignores the request because they - correct answer ✔1A:
Intentional
1B: Assault
2A: Intentional
Legal Aspect of Providing Care
Question and answers verified to pass
2025/2026
The nurse notes that a living will is in the client's medical record. Which statement represents the best
description of guidelines a nurse would follow in this case? - correct answer ✔A living will is invoked
only when the client has a terminal condition or is in a persistent vegetative state.
Match the definition below with the type of law it describes:
1. Legislation passed by the U.S. Congress and the state legislatures is civil or criminal.
2. Protects the rights of individuals by settling disputes between citizens.
3. Defines nursing standards that must be met within individual states.
4. Defines offenses and punishments for those who threaten, harm, or endanger society.
5. Decisions are made based on previous court cases. - correct answer ✔1. Statutory law
2. Civil law
3. Nurse Practice Acts
4. Criminal law
5. Case law
Ordinarily, minors may not consent to medical treatment for themselves. The nurse understands that
this does not apply to emancipated minors and unemancipated minors in certain situations. For each
situation listed, indicate if consent can be provided by an emancipated or unemancipated minor.
1. Pregnancy
2. Minor parent for their child
3. Elective surgery
, 4. Sexually transmitted infection treatment
5. Substance use treatment
6. Organ donation
7. Outpatient mental health treatment
8. Sports related physical examination - correct answer ✔1. Both
2. Both
3. Consent by Emancipated Minors
4. Both
5. Both
6. Consent by Emancipated Minors
7. Both
8. Consent by Emancipated Minors
For each situation, use the first drop-down menu to indicate if the actions involved were intentional,
quasi-intentional, or unintentional. Use the second drop-down menu to indicate which tort was
committed.
1. The unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) tells a school-aged client who is not cooperating at bedtime
that the nurse will give them a shot if they don't behave. The UAP's actions were: ___(1A)___
The tort committed was: ___(1B)___
2. The nurse caring for an elderly client in a residential memory care facility is concerned that Mrs.
Baxter (pronouns: she/her/hers) is at risk of malnourishment because she will not sit down long enough
to eat her meals. The nurse seats Mrs. Baxter in a wheelchair with the brakes engaged at the table
during lunch. After 5 minutes, Mrs. Baxter wants to leave the dining room. The nurse knows that the
client is unable to unlock the wheelchair and ignores the request because they - correct answer ✔1A:
Intentional
1B: Assault
2A: Intentional
