Chapter 5: Legal and Ethical Issues - Nurselytic

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: A living will is a document that states a client's wishes regarding healthcare if the client is terminally ill. It is not necessarily a legal consent. A client may designate another person to be the medical durable power of attorney or healthcare proxy. Do-not-resuscitate orders contain written medical prescriptions for end-of-life instructions.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: Laws are written rules for conduct and actions. Ethical standards dictate the rightness or wrongness of human behavior. Ethics are moral principles and values. Laws do have a formal enforcement system.

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: Criminal law concerns offenses that violate the public's welfare. Statutory law is law that any local, state, or federal legislative body enacts. Common is based on earlier court decisions, judgment, and decrees. Administrative law means that regulatory agencies enforce the rules and regulations that concern health, welfare, and safety of federal and state citizens.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: The right to privacy means that people have the right to expect that they and their property will be left alone. False imprisonment occurs when healthcare workers physically or chemically restrain a person from leaving a healthcare institution. Battery is actual physical contact with another person without that person's consent. Assault is an act that involves a threat or attempt to do bodily harm.

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: A living will states the client's wishes regarding healthcare if terminally ill. It does not specify information regarding nontreatment only, it is not a legal consent, and it is not a type of financial agreement.