A student asks a nurse educator about what part of the law tort law deals with. The nurse educator responds that tort law is concerned with:
a. torts and pies, and always being correct.
b. always being correct and failure to show up for jury duty.
c. failure to show up for jury duty and touching people when they do not want to betouched.
d. touching people when they do not want to be touched and always being correct.
Question 2What is the role of a clinical ethicist? What academic preparation would you expect a clinical ethicist to have?
What will be an ideal response?
Question 3The use of diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) was initiated by federal Medicare and private insurers to reduce health care costs. Which situations demonstrate the potential effect this initia-tive has had on clinical nursing practice?
a. A patient is discharged with only one opportunity to change his dressing with su-pervision.
b. A patient can delay her discharge if she is unsure about changing her dressing.
c. A patient's ambulation is delayed if he experiences too much pain.
d. A patient can be admitted to the hospital for a colonoscopy.
Question 4When engaging in evidence-based health care, the nurse understands that it was originally started as a way to:
a. teach medical students the art and science of medicine.
b. promote technological advances in medicine.
c. integrate individual experience with clinical research.
d. incorporate collaboration within all health care disciplines.
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