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1
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Intentionally placing another in apprehension or fear that they will suffer harmful or offensive contact.

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Intentional Tort: Assault

2
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Intentional contact that is harmful or offensive, or creating the apprehension that such contact is imminent.

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Intentional Tort: Battery

3
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A communication that tends to hold the plaintiff up to hatred, contempt or ridicule, or to cause him to be shunned or avoided.
Tarnishing the reputation of someone.

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Defamation

4
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Types of Defamation

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Libel

Slander

5
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Occurs when one speaks falsely about another

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Slander

6
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Written defamation of character (e.g., charting false entries in a medical record)

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Libel

7
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________ is conduct that falls below the generally accepted standard of care of a reasonably prudent person

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Negligence

8
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_________ is one type of negligence and often referred to as professional negligence. When nursing care falls below a standard of care, nursing malpractice results

nursing ________as the failure to use that degree of skill or learning ordinarily used under the same or similar circumstances by members of the nursing profession

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Malpractice

9
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“All nurses are required to complete at least two contact hours in nursing jurisprudence and ethics prior to the end of every third licensure renewal cycle

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Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) Requirement

10
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The practice of nursing is a right granted by a state to protect those who need nursing care. Provide safe parameters within which to work, as well as protect patients from unprofessional and unsafe nursing practice.

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Nurse Practice Act

11
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Protects the public from unsafe nursing practice

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Board of Nursing

12
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Unprofessional Conduct

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Look at ppt.

13
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____ _______ is a process that protects a nurse from employer retaliation, suspension, termination, discipline, discrimination, and licensure sanction when a nurse makes a good faith request for peer review of an assignment or conduct the nurse is requested to perform and that the nurse believes could result in a violation of the NPA or Board rules

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Safe Harbor

14
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Evaluation of:

  • Nursing Services
  • The qualifications of a nurse
  • The quality of pt care rendered by a nurse
  • the merits of a complaint concerning a nurse or nursing care
  • a determination or recommendation regarding a complaint
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Nursing Peer Review

15
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A nurse shall report to the board if the nurse has reasonable cause to suspect that:

  1. Another nurse has engaged in conduct subject to reporting; or
  2. the ability of a nursing student to perform the services of the nursing profession would be impaired by chemical dependency
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Mandatory Reporting

16
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Nurse licensure allows a nurse to have one license in state of residency and practice physically or electronically in other compact or party states

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Mutual recognition model

17
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The legal definition of the standard of care for nurses is defined as that of what a reasonable and prudent nurse would do when caring for a same or similar patient in the same or similar circumstances

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Legal standard of nursing care