ATI LPN
Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice 6th Edition
Chapter 4 : Patient Rights and Legal Issues Questions
Question 1 of 5
A nurse is explaining the distinction between confidentiality and privacy. Which of the following would the nurse include as reflecting privacy?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Privacy refers to an individual?s right to control personal information and aspects of their life not governed by laws, whereas confidentiality is the ethical and legal duty to protect disclosed information.
Question 2 of 5
A psychiatric-mental health patient has an advance care directive on his medical record. A clinician provides treatment that disregards the patient?s directive. The clinician would be liable for which of the following?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Disregarding an advance care directive and providing unauthorized treatment constitutes medical battery, a specific type of battery involving non-consensual medical intervention.
Question 3 of 5
A group of students are preparing a class presentation about negligence. Which of the following would the group include as an element required for proving negligence?
Correct Answer: A,B,C,D,E
Rationale: Proving negligence requires establishing a duty to provide care, breach of that duty, cause in fact (the breach caused harm), proximate cause (the harm was foreseeable), and resultant damages.
Question 4 of 5
A psychiatric-mental health nurse is documenting information in a patient?s medical record. Which of the following would be least likely to increase the nurse?s legal liability?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Documenting a patient?s subjective report of feeling better is factual and low-risk, whereas administering medication, describing behavior, or applying restraints carries higher legal risk if not properly justified or executed.
Question 5 of 5
After teaching a class of nursing students about the rights of persons receiving mental health services, the instructor determines a need for additional instruction when the students identify which of the following as a right?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Patients have rights to freedom from unnecessary restraints, access to their mental health records, and an individualized treatment plan, but they cannot refuse treatment in emergencies if they pose a danger to themselves or others.