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A competent resident in a long-term care facility refuses an ordered antidepressant medication.
 
  The nurse believes the patient needs the medication because he is clearly showing signs of depression and dissolves the medication in juice without telling the patient. This illustrates negligence by failure to
  a.
  follow the standard of care.
  b.
  assess and monitor a patient.
  c.
  communicate with a patient.
  d.
  document.


Analysis of cases of reported negligence from 1995 to 2001 demonstrated that the majority of cases occurred in which patient care setting?
 
  a. Acute care
  b. Psychiatric
  c. Nursing homes and long-term care facilities
  d. Home health


The nurse forgets to give the patient a dose of antibiotic. Later in the shift, the patient goes into cardiac arrest and dies. What element is lacking to support malpractice?
 
  a. Duty of care
  b. Breach of duty
  c. Specific injury
  d. Proximate cause


The most common reason that nurses are disciplined by the state board of nursing is
 
  a. making medication errors.
  b. following unsafe nursing practice.
  c. practicing while impaired.
  d. abandoning patients.
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