NUR 101 - Unit 1 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Advocacy - CORRECT ANSWER - (1) promoting the cause of another person or organization and (2)
safeguarding of a client's rights and supporting of his or her interests.
Duty - CORRECT ANSWER - expected action based on moral or legal obligations.
Ethics - CORRECT ANSWER - moral principles and values that guide the behavior of honorable people.
Informed consent - CORRECT ANSWER - voluntary permission granted by a knowledgeable client or the client's
assigned medical proxy for an invasive procedure or surgery.
Laws - CORRECT ANSWER - written rules governing conduct and actions.
Liability - CORRECT ANSWER - legal responsibility.
Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER - Protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of
illness and injury, alleviation of suffering, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and
populations
Rights - CORRECT ANSWER - freedoms or actions to which individuals have a just moral or legal claim.
Values - CORRECT ANSWER - beliefs that individuals find most meaningful.
Civil law - CORRECT ANSWER - body of law that is concerned with disputes between individual citizens and
that protects everyone's personal freedoms and property rights.
Common law - CORRECT ANSWER - system of laws that uses earlier court decisions, judgments, and decrees as
precedents for interpretation of laws; also known as judicial law.
Constitutional law - CORRECT ANSWER - fundamental freedoms and rights granted by the constitution to all
citizens of the United States.
Criminal law - CORRECT ANSWER - body of law concerned with offenses that violate the public's welfare.
Administrative law - CORRECT ANSWER - body of law that creates and enforces rules and regulations
concerning the health, welfare, and safety of federal and state citizens.
Statutory law - CORRECT ANSWER - law that any local, state, or federal legislative body enacts.
Tort law - CORRECT ANSWER - body of law that governs breaches of duty owed by one person to another.
Tort - CORRECT ANSWER - physical, emotional, or financial injury that occurred because of another person's
intentional or unintentional actions, or failure to act.
Intentional tort - CORRECT ANSWER - deliberate and willful act that infringes on another person's rights or
property.
Unintentional torts - CORRECT ANSWER - injuries caused by another person when the person responsible did
not mean to cause any harm; negligence is the principal form of unintentional tort.
Negligence - CORRECT ANSWER - failure to act as a reasonable person would have acted in a similar situation.
Malpractice - CORRECT ANSWER - professional negligence resulting from a licensed person's action or lack of
action.
and CORRECT Answers
Advocacy - CORRECT ANSWER - (1) promoting the cause of another person or organization and (2)
safeguarding of a client's rights and supporting of his or her interests.
Duty - CORRECT ANSWER - expected action based on moral or legal obligations.
Ethics - CORRECT ANSWER - moral principles and values that guide the behavior of honorable people.
Informed consent - CORRECT ANSWER - voluntary permission granted by a knowledgeable client or the client's
assigned medical proxy for an invasive procedure or surgery.
Laws - CORRECT ANSWER - written rules governing conduct and actions.
Liability - CORRECT ANSWER - legal responsibility.
Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER - Protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of
illness and injury, alleviation of suffering, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and
populations
Rights - CORRECT ANSWER - freedoms or actions to which individuals have a just moral or legal claim.
Values - CORRECT ANSWER - beliefs that individuals find most meaningful.
Civil law - CORRECT ANSWER - body of law that is concerned with disputes between individual citizens and
that protects everyone's personal freedoms and property rights.
Common law - CORRECT ANSWER - system of laws that uses earlier court decisions, judgments, and decrees as
precedents for interpretation of laws; also known as judicial law.
Constitutional law - CORRECT ANSWER - fundamental freedoms and rights granted by the constitution to all
citizens of the United States.
Criminal law - CORRECT ANSWER - body of law concerned with offenses that violate the public's welfare.
Administrative law - CORRECT ANSWER - body of law that creates and enforces rules and regulations
concerning the health, welfare, and safety of federal and state citizens.
Statutory law - CORRECT ANSWER - law that any local, state, or federal legislative body enacts.
Tort law - CORRECT ANSWER - body of law that governs breaches of duty owed by one person to another.
Tort - CORRECT ANSWER - physical, emotional, or financial injury that occurred because of another person's
intentional or unintentional actions, or failure to act.
Intentional tort - CORRECT ANSWER - deliberate and willful act that infringes on another person's rights or
property.
Unintentional torts - CORRECT ANSWER - injuries caused by another person when the person responsible did
not mean to cause any harm; negligence is the principal form of unintentional tort.
Negligence - CORRECT ANSWER - failure to act as a reasonable person would have acted in a similar situation.
Malpractice - CORRECT ANSWER - professional negligence resulting from a licensed person's action or lack of
action.
