NUR 172 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS &
VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS
health care law - correct answer ✔✔Scope of practice
Public health/infection control
Consent
Advanced directives
Malpractice - correct answer ✔✔Type of negligence, any professional misconduct,
unreasonable lack of professional skill, non adherence
4 elements of malpractice - correct answer ✔✔Duty
Breach of duty
Injury
Causation
Standards of practice - correct answer ✔✔focuses on the provider.
Standards of care - correct answer ✔✔focuses on the recipient of care, patient
National patient safety goals - correct answer ✔✔Identify patient correctly (name and DOB)
Use medications safely (rights)
Prevent infections
Improve staff communication
Identify patient safety risk to suicide
, Prevent mistakes in surgery
Informed consent - correct answer ✔✔Provide patient with enough information so they are
able to make a decision.
Nurse can be a witness, make sure it's signed.
Dr is responsible to obtain consent
Unusual occurrence report → incident report - correct answer ✔✔Non Judgemental, factual,
not part of legal record.
Sentinel event - correct answer ✔✔Not related to patient's natural course of illness (delay in
treatment, pt fall, tissue necrosis) severe infiltrate. *malpractice complication with sentinel
event. Injury causing a graft to patients IV site.
Code of ethics - correct answer ✔✔The principles that used in ethical and moral decision
making
Scope of practice for IV therapy - correct answer ✔✔OBN
Antibiotic = anti infection = antifungal
Initiate (first dose)
Maintain (administer/regulate)
IVPB = secondary = intermittent infusion (IV piggy back)
TPN
PCA
PICC
Places where LPN can start an IV→ antecubital to hand
VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS
health care law - correct answer ✔✔Scope of practice
Public health/infection control
Consent
Advanced directives
Malpractice - correct answer ✔✔Type of negligence, any professional misconduct,
unreasonable lack of professional skill, non adherence
4 elements of malpractice - correct answer ✔✔Duty
Breach of duty
Injury
Causation
Standards of practice - correct answer ✔✔focuses on the provider.
Standards of care - correct answer ✔✔focuses on the recipient of care, patient
National patient safety goals - correct answer ✔✔Identify patient correctly (name and DOB)
Use medications safely (rights)
Prevent infections
Improve staff communication
Identify patient safety risk to suicide
, Prevent mistakes in surgery
Informed consent - correct answer ✔✔Provide patient with enough information so they are
able to make a decision.
Nurse can be a witness, make sure it's signed.
Dr is responsible to obtain consent
Unusual occurrence report → incident report - correct answer ✔✔Non Judgemental, factual,
not part of legal record.
Sentinel event - correct answer ✔✔Not related to patient's natural course of illness (delay in
treatment, pt fall, tissue necrosis) severe infiltrate. *malpractice complication with sentinel
event. Injury causing a graft to patients IV site.
Code of ethics - correct answer ✔✔The principles that used in ethical and moral decision
making
Scope of practice for IV therapy - correct answer ✔✔OBN
Antibiotic = anti infection = antifungal
Initiate (first dose)
Maintain (administer/regulate)
IVPB = secondary = intermittent infusion (IV piggy back)
TPN
PCA
PICC
Places where LPN can start an IV→ antecubital to hand
