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PNVN 1111 – Exam 3, 2026 – Study guide and
practice material
NPA - correct answer ✔✔ scope of practice per state
A nurse discontinues a ventilator without a doctor's order; what is this act considered as? - correct answer ✔✔ malpractice
-one needs a MD order before doing anything
When regarding the NCLEX, if you currently hold a LCN license in CA, what must you do when you move into a new state? - correct answer ✔✔ notify the state and start the procedure
What is civil law? - correct answer ✔✔ between individuals, usually involves a monetary compensation
Tort - correct answer ✔✔ - type of civil law that involves wrongs against - person or propertyincludes: ▪︎ negligence ▪︎ assault ▪︎ battery ▪︎ defamation ▪︎ fraud ▪︎ false imprisonment ▪︎ invasion of privacy
intentional tort - correct answer ✔✔ A wrongful act knowingly committed
unintentional tort - correct answer ✔✔ Not wanting to cause harm but caused harm anyway
What is battery? - correct answer ✔✔ -Causing bodily harm -or not receiving consent
Assault - correct answer ✔✔ attempt or threat to do violence to another
Slander - correct answer ✔✔ spoken defamation that can be: untrue or gossip
A nurse makes the following statement to a patient, " If you don't go to sleep; I will give you an injection". What is this act called? - correct answer ✔✔ Assault
A student at a healthcare facility takes a picture of a patient's ulcer without permission, her instructor warned her that this is can be a case of a ____________ issue - correct answer ✔✔ libel
Student nurses practice under the _________________ - correct answer ✔✔ instructor's license, the instructor assumes all responsibilities
What is a breach of duty? - correct answer ✔✔ failure to meet the standard of care
WWII nursing program that trained nurses - correct answer ✔✔ Nurse Cadet Core
Who is the 19th century nursing inspiration? - correct answer ✔✔ Florence Nightingale
Tachy- - correct answer ✔✔ rapid, fast
Pseudo- - correct answer ✔✔ false
-algia - correct answer ✔✔ pain
litho- - correct answer ✔✔ stones
rhinoplasty - correct answer ✔✔ nose job
What is it called when a nursing program meets the state agency's guideline? - correct answer ✔✔ approved
What is ethics? - correct answer ✔✔ deals with issues of right and wrong behavior, habits
If the nurse is aware of the medication's side effects, what ethic principle is she practicing? - correct answer ✔✔ nonmaleficence
What must you get before performing any nursing action on a patient? - correct answer ✔✔ informed consent
A nurse leaves before her replacement arrive, what type of act is this called?
- correct answer ✔✔ abandonment
What type of action is it called when a nurse steals a patient's rx? - correct answer ✔✔ Illegal behavior
What type of ethic principle is practice when a nurse documents the patient's feelings and wishes? - correct answer ✔✔ Fidelity
What ethic principle must you keep in mind while performing nursing acts to ensure to not harm the patient? - correct answer ✔✔ nonmaleficence
-making sure you dont do any harm to the patient
What is it called when a nurse encourages a patient to participate in creating their own care plan? - correct answer ✔✔ autonomy
Law - correct answer ✔✔ A body of enforceable rules governing relationships among individuals and between individuals and their society.
What you are OBLIGATED to do
Ethics - correct answer ✔✔ • system of standards or moral principles that direct actions as being right or wrong
•combined with meaning of words such as right, wrong, good, bad, ought and duty
-misinformation -gossip
Informed consent - correct answer ✔✔ • benefits of treatment • risks involved
- alternative treatments • consequences of refusing the treatment or procedure • explanation of the procedure must be in nontechnical terms in language the pt can understand • may withdraw consent anytime
Statutory law - correct answer ✔✔ • are passed by legislative bodies at the federal, state, and local levels -EX. NPA
What type of law does NPA fall under? - correct answer ✔✔ statutory law
You must never invoke personal values onto a patient you must always; refusing to care for them can lead to a term called - correct answer ✔✔ -take care of the patient
-can lead to abandonment; must ask supervisor if they can switch onto another nurse
If a nurse honors a patient's right they are being __________ - correct answer ✔✔ respectful/considerate
A nurse makes a statement of enjoying nursing when the parents of the infant is a male and female. this is the nurse's personal _______ - correct answer ✔✔ values
What is needed for a malpractice suit? - correct answer ✔✔ • Duty
•Breach of duty •Proximate causes •Harm
What is it called when a nurses vents about a health care provider on social media? - correct answer ✔✔ Libel, as it damages the physician's reputation
What are values? - correct answer ✔✔ • involves the worth you assign to an idea or an action •freely chosen and are affected by age, experience, and maturity
▪︎ a child embraces family values at a young age, teen years they either embrace or reject •values continue to be modified throughout a lifetime as you acquire new knowledge and experience •change in values can shift one's morals/ethics
What is the best way to prevent malpractice suits? - correct answer ✔✔
- maintain a good reputation with the patient and their family
Living will SATA: - correct answer ✔✔ ▪︎ Does not have a proxy ▪︎ a legal document ▪︎ tx a patient wants or doesn't want
DPOA - correct answer ✔✔ Durable Power of Attorney
- legal document allowing another person the authority to make medical decisions for you when you are unconscious
can a patient revoke their consent at any time? - correct answer ✔✔ Yes
What's the breach of duty? - correct answer ✔✔ When you don't perform your duties according to your standards of care
what is it called when you inform a reporter who you are caring for? - correct answer ✔✔ breach of confedentiality
Who documents the responsibilities of a nurse? - correct answer ✔✔ NPA guidelines
