When engaging in evidence-based health care, the nurse ...

[SAVANNAHHOOPER23]

When engaging in evidence-based health care, the nurse understands that it was originally started as a way to:
 
  a. teach medical students the art and science of medicine.
  b. promote technological advances in medicine.
  c. integrate individual experience with clinical research.
  d. incorporate collaboration within all health care disciplines.

Question 2

A patient has an advance directive that indicates no CPR should be performed under any circumstance. When the nurse enters the patient's room and finds that he has coded, the nurse immediately begins CPR.
 
  The nurse is at risk for which of the following? a. Negligence c. Assault
  b. Battery d. Licensure

[johnharpe]

Answer to Question 1

C
D. L. Sackett, well known in the EBM movement, encouraged evidenced-based medicine as a way to
integrate individual clinical medical experience with external clinical evidence using a systematic
research approach.

Answer to Question 2

B
Failing to honor a patient's advance directive (living will, medical power of attorney, or durable
medical power of attorney) puts caregivers at risk for charges of malpractice via battery. An example
of negligence would be not honoring a patient's wish to be resuscitated, and licensure may be revoked
or suspended due to certain acts (or failure to act) depending on the circumstances and outcomes
involved.