The nurse manager is concerned that a staff nurse's care demonstrates gross negligence. What ...

Correct Answer: 1, 2, 4, 5

Rationale 1: Gross negligence involves extreme lack of knowledge, skill, or decision making that the person clearly should have known would put others at risk for harm. Removing a client's central line would be gross negligence.

Rationale 2: Gross negligence involves extreme lack of knowledge, skill, or decision making that the person clearly should have known would put others at risk for harm. Reconnecting contaminated intravenous tubing would be gross negligence.

Rationale 3: Accessing the computer documentation system with a password demonstrates compliance with HIPAA.

Rationale 4: Gross negligence involves extreme lack of knowledge, skill, or decision making that the person clearly should have known would put others at risk for harm. Walking a patient with an unsafe blood pressure is gross negligence.

Rationale 5: Gross negligence involves extreme lack of knowledge, skill, or decision making that the person clearly should have known would put others at risk for harm. Inappropriately delegating a skill is gross negligence.