JURISPRUDENCE
AND ETHICS
Tercero, Ferdinand C., BSN, RN, RN
“terz”
LEGAL
RESPONSIBILITIES
AND THE NURSE
MALPRACTICE
Stepping beyond one’s authority with serious
consequences
Battery
Slander
- oral defamation by speaking unprivileged or
false words by which reputation is damaged
Libel
- written words, cartoons or such
representations that cause a person to be
avoided or held in contempt
OTHER LEGAL
ISSUES
MORAL TURPITUDE
a. Holographic
b. Expressed will
c. Oral will
d. Simple imprudence
3. The midwife filed a birth certificate when in
fact no birth has really occurred. The crime
is called:
a. Simulation of birth
b. Substitution of a child
c. Breach
d. Abandonment
4. The nurse injected antibiotic to a 3 year old
child without the mother’s consent. The
midwife may be charged of?
a. Libel
b. Slander
c. Assault
d. Battery
5. At the OB ward, a post partum mother fell
from a defective strap. The situation
established a case of?
a. Malpractice
b. Negligence
c. Assault
d. Battery
6. A nurse gave a patient steam inhalation, a
blister was noted at the right paranasal area
after the procedure. The nurse’s practice
can be established by the doctrine of:
a. Respondeat Superior
b. Incompetence
c. Res Ipsa Loquitor
d. None of the above
7. When the nurse forces an IM injection to a
resisting adult patient, the midwife can be
liable for:
a. Assault
b. Battery
c. Deceit
d. Harassment
8. The nurse is working with a client making
use of a walker. The nurse rearranges the
furnitures, removes rugs, and has grab bars
installed in the clients’ bathroom. These
actions reflect the nurse attention to which
ethical principle?
a. Beneficence
b. Veracity
c. Fidelity
d. Justice
9. A nurse is not expected by law to carry out
doctor’s order when:
a. Justice
b. Double effect
c. Totality
d. Stewardship
13. The nurse had a stay in patient in the
hospital for a long time who keeps on giving
her gifts. The midwife in return keeps on
receiving the gifts. What is the most
appropriate ethical principle about receiving
gifts?
a. It is just fine since it is a gift
b. Nurses should not accept gifts
c. Let another person accept it for you
d. Ask the patient to give the gift to you in
secret
13. One of the patients in the ER becomes
verbally abusive when he was being sutured.
In response, the nurse obtains restraints and
threatens the patient. What can the nurse be
liable of?
a. Negligence
b. Assault
c. Battery
d. Invasion of privacy
14. The nurse performs a careful safety
assessment of the elderly client to prevent
her from being hurt. The nurse is acting in
what accord?
a. Fidelity
b. Beneficence
c. Justice
d. Non maleficence