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What is the basic purpose of the state board of nursing?

The patient has tested positive for a gene associated with breast cancer. Can this patient be denied life insurance based upon this finding?

7. A patient presents at a small rural medical clinic after falling from a ladder. The physician suspects that the patient may have intracranial injuries but no diagnostic equipment to determine the severity of injury is available. What is necessary for the physician to legally transfer this unstable patient? Choose all that are correct.

22. 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?

The nurse manager is conducting a performance review with a nurse who has worked on the unit for 10 years. During the review, the nurse begins to cry and tells the manager, “I just can’t do this anymore. I can’t sleep because I have such bad nightmares about patients. I can’t eat and I’ve already lost 15 pounds.” The nurse manager identifies these findings as being possible signs of which problem?

8. What is the nurse’s legal duty with regard to implementing a physician’s order?

Which statements would the nurse evaluate as correctly identifying difference between ethics and law? (Select all that apply) Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.

18. The ethics committee is reviewing a case in which the patient is competent. Which model is likely to be of best use to the ethics committee reviewing the case?

The nurse has been sued for defamation after charting that the patient is a prostitute. What is the nurse’s best defense in this case?

A frail 90-year-old resident of a long-term care facility refuses to sign an advanced directive and tells the nurse she “wants everything done” to save her life if she should go into cardiopulmonary arrest. What action by the nurse is ethically and legally indicated?