Failure to Conform to or Departure from a Required Duty

question 3

Multiple Choice

Failure to conform to or departure from a required duty of care owed to a patient is considered as a __________.

• A) foreseeable event
• B) breach of duty
• C) foreseeable act
• D) standard of care

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Definitions:

Delirium

A serious disturbance in mental abilities that results in confused thinking and reduced awareness of the environment.

Hysteria

An outdated psychiatric term once used to describe a symptom pattern characterized by emotional excitability and physical symptoms (e.g., convulsions, paralyses, numbness, loss of vision) without any organic cause.

Repression

A psychological defense mechanism involving the unconscious blocking of unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or impulses from conscious awareness.

Neurosis

A class of functional mental disorders involving chronic distress but neither delusions nor hallucinations.