While Participating in Critical Care Rounds,a Nurse Is Interrupted by the Wife

question 15

Multiple Choice

While participating in critical care rounds,a nurse is interrupted by the wife of a ventilated patient,who informs the nurse that her husband is having difficulty breathing.The patient is found disconnected from the ventilator and unresponsive when the nurse enters the room after rounds; the alarm mode on the ventilator had been turned off.This is an example of

• A) assault.
• B) battery.
• C) injury.
• D) professional malpractice.

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Definitions:

Testamentary Capacity

The legal and mental ability of an individual to make or alter a valid will.

Holographic Will

A will entirely handwritten, dated, and signed by the testator, sometimes acceptable without witnesses in some jurisdictions.

Testator

A person who writes a will.

Forgery

The fraudulent making or altering of a writing in a way that changes the legal rights and liabilities of another and with the intent to deceive or defraud.