Guidance for Final Exam
Total Questions= 65 questions (1.5 minutes per question)
Ch. 23 (Torts and Confidentiality)
1. Torts: civil wrong acts or omission made against a person/property
a. Intentional: Willful acts that violate another person’s right
i. Assault: Intentional threat towards another person that
places that person in fear of harmful, imminent or
unwelcomed contact.
1. No actual contact is required
ii. Battery: intentional offensive touching without consent or
lawful justification.
1. Contact can be harmful and cause injury or can be
offensive to the pt’s personal dignity
2. Ex: Provider performs a procedure that goes beyond
the scope of the pt’s consent
iii. False Imprisonment: unjustified restraint of a person
without legal reason
1. Ex: nurses restrain a pt in a confined area to keep that
person from freedom
a. Pt must be aware of confinement for false
imprisonment.
b. Quasi Intentional:
i. Invasion of Privacy: release of pt’s medical info to
unauthorized person, such as press, pt’s employer or family
or online. (can only b shared with healthcare providers for
the purpose of medical treatment only
ii. Defamation of Character: publication of false information
that results in damage to a person’s reputation
1. Slander: speak falsely about another
2. Libel: write falsely about another
c. Unintentional
i. Negligence: below standard of care
ii. Malpractice: professional negligence to carry out duty of
care
, 2. Confidentiality
a. HIPAA: pt right to consent to the use and disclosure of their
protected health info, to inspect and copy one’s medical record and
to amend mistakes or incomplete info.
b. Limits who’s able to access pt records.
c. Privacy and confidentiality
d. Informed consent: nurse is witness that pt signed and is competent
Ch. 37 x 9 Questions (See topics below)
Types of Grief: a cluster of ordinary emotions arising in response of a significant
loss. Intensified and complicated by the relationship to the person or object lost
1. Normal uncomplicated grief: common universal reaction
2. Anticipatory grief: before the actual loss of death ex caring for pt with
dementia or ALS
3. Disenfranchised Grief: relationship to deceased person not socially
sanctioned, cant be openly shared or seems less significant
a. Ambiguous loss: the person is physically present but not
psychologically available. Ex: dementia or brain injury
4. Complicated Grief: prolonged significant difficulty moving forward
after a loss
a. Chronic: normal grief response experienced over a long period of
time
b. Exaggerated: self destructive or maladaptive behavior, obsessions,
or psych disorders. Suicide risk
c. Delayed: avoidance because the loss is so significant. Ususally
triggered by a second less significant loss
d. Masked: behaves in a way that interferes with normal functioning
Box 37-10, Care of the Body after Death
1. African American: presence of large extended family and church family.
Mourning short with memorial service and public viewing of the body or
wake before burial. Organ donation and autopsy allowed
Total Questions= 65 questions (1.5 minutes per question)
Ch. 23 (Torts and Confidentiality)
1. Torts: civil wrong acts or omission made against a person/property
a. Intentional: Willful acts that violate another person’s right
i. Assault: Intentional threat towards another person that
places that person in fear of harmful, imminent or
unwelcomed contact.
1. No actual contact is required
ii. Battery: intentional offensive touching without consent or
lawful justification.
1. Contact can be harmful and cause injury or can be
offensive to the pt’s personal dignity
2. Ex: Provider performs a procedure that goes beyond
the scope of the pt’s consent
iii. False Imprisonment: unjustified restraint of a person
without legal reason
1. Ex: nurses restrain a pt in a confined area to keep that
person from freedom
a. Pt must be aware of confinement for false
imprisonment.
b. Quasi Intentional:
i. Invasion of Privacy: release of pt’s medical info to
unauthorized person, such as press, pt’s employer or family
or online. (can only b shared with healthcare providers for
the purpose of medical treatment only
ii. Defamation of Character: publication of false information
that results in damage to a person’s reputation
1. Slander: speak falsely about another
2. Libel: write falsely about another
c. Unintentional
i. Negligence: below standard of care
ii. Malpractice: professional negligence to carry out duty of
care
, 2. Confidentiality
a. HIPAA: pt right to consent to the use and disclosure of their
protected health info, to inspect and copy one’s medical record and
to amend mistakes or incomplete info.
b. Limits who’s able to access pt records.
c. Privacy and confidentiality
d. Informed consent: nurse is witness that pt signed and is competent
Ch. 37 x 9 Questions (See topics below)
Types of Grief: a cluster of ordinary emotions arising in response of a significant
loss. Intensified and complicated by the relationship to the person or object lost
1. Normal uncomplicated grief: common universal reaction
2. Anticipatory grief: before the actual loss of death ex caring for pt with
dementia or ALS
3. Disenfranchised Grief: relationship to deceased person not socially
sanctioned, cant be openly shared or seems less significant
a. Ambiguous loss: the person is physically present but not
psychologically available. Ex: dementia or brain injury
4. Complicated Grief: prolonged significant difficulty moving forward
after a loss
a. Chronic: normal grief response experienced over a long period of
time
b. Exaggerated: self destructive or maladaptive behavior, obsessions,
or psych disorders. Suicide risk
c. Delayed: avoidance because the loss is so significant. Ususally
triggered by a second less significant loss
d. Masked: behaves in a way that interferes with normal functioning
Box 37-10, Care of the Body after Death
1. African American: presence of large extended family and church family.
Mourning short with memorial service and public viewing of the body or
wake before burial. Organ donation and autopsy allowed
