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Nursing
three types of tort damages - CORRECT ANSWERS -compensatory
-special
-punitive
three types of torts - CORRECT ANSWERS -negligence
-intentional tort
-strict liability
elements of negligence - CORRECT ANSWERS -duty
-breach of that duty
-causation
-damages
negligence - CORRECT ANSWERS conduct that falls below the standard established by law for
the protection of others against unreasonable risk of harm
standard of care - CORRECT ANSWERS ascertained by asking what a reasonably prudent person
would have been expected to do in the same situation
reasonably prudent person - CORRECT ANSWERS standard against which an actual defendant is
held
, negligence per se - CORRECT ANSWERS defendant fails to meet a statutory requirement that
was established for the safety of the participants
causation - CORRECT ANSWERS connection between the breach of duty and the resulting injury
proximate causation - CORRECT ANSWERS an act or failure to act directly produces an event,
and the event would not have occurred otherwise
defenses to negligence - CORRECT ANSWERS -assumption of risk
-statute of limitations
-immunity
-act of god
primary assumption of risk - CORRECT ANSWERS plaintiff understands and voluntarily agrees to
accept inherent risk of activity
secondary assumption of risk - CORRECT ANSWERS plaintiff deliberately chooses to encounter
a known risk and that the plaintiff acts unreasonably
two aspects of acts of god that must coexist - CORRECT ANSWERS -there must truly be an act
of god
-this act of god must have been unforeseeable
contributory negligence - CORRECT ANSWERS if the plaintiff in any way caused his injury, he is
prevented from any recovery