3/23/2017 LegalRisksQuiz

LegalRisksQuiz

Your Name: Rebecca Bossack

Date/Time Student Score Passing score Result

March 23, 2017 6:21

80% (200 points) 80% (200 points) Passed
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# Question Result Awarded Points

1. Use a pencil or blue ink when charting. 10 10

A physician writes a DNR order for your patient who is terminally

ill with cancer. Some 24 hours later the patient shows signs of
2. severe respiratory distress. She is alert and oriented. She 10 10
indicated that she wants to be placed on a respirator. What is
your best response?

Most jurisdictions recognize Living Wills as valid legal documents.

3. 10 10
Legislation governing Living Wills typically species:

4. Professional standards for most nursing specialties are set by: 10 10

5. Any legally competent adult can create an advance directive. 0 10

The legal requirement for obtaining informed consent can be

6. 0 10
waived only if:

7. Patients have the right to see their charts and other parts of their 10 10
medical records.

If the patient is dicult or uncooperative, the nurse should

8. document that the patient is rude, dicult and uncooperative 10 10
in the chart.

9. Nurses should release medical records to interested parties such 0 10

as family members, police and insurance companies.

A patient is being treated for gout. He is sleeping when his 21-

year-old son arrives for a visit. The son is concerned about his
10. 10 10
fathers condition and demands to see his fathers chart. What is
the best response?

The healthcare team may be committing battery if treatment is

11. 10 10
given without a valid signed consent form.

If you spill something on a page of the medical record, you

12. 0 10
should:

Malpractice is a form of negligence that stipulates that a

13. professional did not act reasonably and in good faith while 10 10
performing a service to another person.

Enter verbal orders in the chart immediately and make sure the
14. 10 10
physician signs them.

15. Who should le an incident report? 10 10

Patients have the legal right to refuse mechanical ventilation,

16. tube feedings, antibiotics, uids, and other treatments that are 10 10
needed to keep them alive.

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# Question Result Awarded Points

It is not necessary to document statements and actions that

17. 10 10
reect the patients mental state at the time he left your facility.

The patient arrives in emergency with pain in his lower right

abdomen. The pain suddenly goes away. He refuses medical
care and wants to leave the hospital so that he can attend his
18. sons wedding. The nurse and physician advise him not to leave 10 10
because the sudden absence of pain can signify that his
condition has worsened. He still insists on leaving. What is the
best response?

19. Each person who is involved with the patients care is permitted 0 10
access to the complete chart.

A patient has the right to be free from restraints or seclusion of

20. any form imposed by sta members as a means of coercion, 10 10
discipline, convenience or retaliation.

Nurses can discuss information about a patient with others who

21. 10 10
are not directly involved in the patients care.

Your patient is scheduled to undergo an appendectomy. The

physician ordered insertion of a urinary catheter. Before
22. performing the procedure, you inform the patient of the 10 10
physicians order. The patient refuses permission for you to
perform the procedure. What is your best response?

Malpractice is a more restricted, specialized type of negligence,

23. dened as a violation of professional duty to act with reasonable 10 10
care and in good faith.

24. In medical charting and documentation, the abbreviation AMA 10 10

means:

A durable power of attorney species the kind of care the patient

25. wants to receive if he or she becomes incapacitated requiring 10 10
extraordinary measures to sustain the patients life.

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