Leadership Nclex Exam 2024| Questions
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The nurse enters a client's room and notes that the client's lawyer is
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preparing a living will. The living will requires that the client's signature be witnessed, and the
client asks the nurse to witness the signature. Which is the appropriate nursing action?✔✔
Decline to sign the will.
The nurse is newly employed in a health agency. The nurse is told that the decision-making
process of the organization is based on a centralized structure. The nurse determines that this
means that the authority to make decisions is vested in whom?✔✔ A few individuals such as the
board of directors
An older woman is brought to the emergency department. When caring for the client, the nurse
notes old and new ecchymotic areas on both of the client's arms and buttocks. The nurse asks the
client how the bruises were sustained. The client, although reluctant, tells the nurse in confidence
that her daughter frequently hits her if she gets in the way. Which is the appropriate nursing
response?✔✔ "I have a legal obligation to report this type of abuse."
A client with a headache arrives in the emergency department and is staggering, confused, smells
of alcohol, and is verbally abusive. The nurse explains to the client that the health care provider
will need to perform an assessment before the administration of medication. When the client
becomes verbally abusive, the nurse threatens to place the client in restraints. With what can the
client legally charge the nurse as a result of this nursing action?✔✔ Assault
The nurse witnesses an automobile accident and provides care at the scene of the accident to an
open wound on a young child. The family is extremely grateful and insists that the nurse accept
monetary compensation for the care provided to the child. Because of the family's insistence, the
nurse accepts the compensation to avoid offending the family. The child develops an infection
and sepsis and is hospitalized. The family files suit against the nurse who provided care to the
child at the scene of the accident. The nurse understands that which is accurate regarding
immunity from this suit?✔✔ Good Samaritan laws will not provide immunity from suit if the
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