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Tirant22

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on: Jul 8, 2018
If a client is ill with a contagious infectious disease with a high death rate, is the nurse under obligation to report the infection?
 
  A. No; a nurse's obligation is first and foremost to the client receiving the care
  B. Yes, if state law requires the disease to be reported
  C. Yes, if the disease is easily transmitted through air or body fluids
  D. Yes, if the ill person refuses to stay at home and not have visitors

Question 2

What is the relationship between legal obligations and ethical obligations?
 
  A. Legal concerns are always in the news, while ethical concerns are not.
  B. Legal issues are typically observed before ethical issues are noticed.
  C. The nurse must fulfill legal obligations but not necessarily ethical ones.
  D. When ethical issues become a social concern, laws are passed to provide guidance.


Tabitha_2016

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Reply #1 on: Jul 8, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: B

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D


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