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CCNS Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist

Category - Pediatrics

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A unit manager discusses the issue of patients’ rights and the unit nurses to enumerate a situation that represents a case of invasion of a patient’s privacy. The first nurse who replied was correct when she said:
  1. Telling the patient that he cannot leave the hospital premises
  2. Performing bedside care without the patient’s permission
  3. Threatening a patient to give a medication
  4. Doing a procedure without signed informed consent
Explanation
Answer - B - The first nurse who replied was correct when she said performing bedside care without the patient’s permission. Invasion of privacy takes place with unreasonable intrusion into an individual’s private affairs. Option A is false imprisonment. Option C is assault. Option D is battery.
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