The hospital nursing group establishing standards of care for a newly organized patient care unit is looking for external sources for these standards. Where should these nurses look?
1. Hospital policy and procedures manuals
2. Professional journals and nursing textbooks
3. Individual nurse's experience and education
4. Individual nurse's job description
Standards of care exist for a number of reasons. What is their most basic purpose?
1. To protect health care providers and prevent their giving less than quality care
2. To protect and safeguard the public as a whole
3. To ensure administrative agencies are protected from frivolous lawsuits
4. To ensure that all patients receive state-of-the-art care
What is the major ethical concern of an expert witness?
1. The expert witness has an obligation to fill in the blanks in the medical record.
2. The expert witness must stay objective and unbiased in the work.
3. The expert witness must make a logical and fair decision at trial.
4. The expert witness must explain that unexpected outcomes sometimes occur in health care.
A person desires to bring suit for injuries sustained while hospitalized. What is this person's legal burden of proof?
1. To show that an incident occurred during the hospitalization
2. To show that injuries were sustained
3. To show that an incident occurred and resulted in injury
4. To show that an incident occurred causing injury and that the incident was intentional
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