The nurse hears a health care provider say to the charge nurse ...

[chads108]

The nurse hears a health care provider say to the charge nurse that a certain nurse cannot care for patients because the nurse is stupid and won't follow orders.
 
  The health care provider also writes in the patient's medical records that the same nurse, by name, is not to care for any of the patients because of incompetence. Which torts has the health care provider committed? (Select all that apply.)
  a. Libel
  b. Slander
  c. Assault
  d. Battery
  e. Invasion of privacy

Question 2

Which types of nurses make the best communicators with patients?
 
  a. Those who learn effective psychomotor skills
  b. Those who develop critical thinking skills
  c. Those who like different kinds of people
  d. Those who maintain perceptual biases

[Silverbeard98]

Answer to Question 1

ANS: A, B
Slander occurred when the health care provider spoke falsely about the nurse, and libel occurred when the health care provider wrote false information in the chart. Both of these situations could cause problems for the nurse's reputation. Invasion of privacy is the release of a patient's medical information to an unauthorized person such as a member of the press, the patient's employer, or the patient's family. Assault is any action that places a person in reasonable fear of harmful, imminent, or unwelcome contact. No actual contact is required for an assault to occur. Battery is any intentional touching without consent.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
Nurses who develop critical thinking skills make the best communicators. Just liking people does not make an effective communicator because it is important to apply critical thinking standards to ensure sound effective communication. Just learning psychomotor skills does not ensure that the nurse will use those techniques, and communication involves more than psychomotor skills. Critical thinking helps the nurse overcome perceptual biases or human tendencies that interfere with accurately perceiving and interpreting messages from others. Nurses who maintain perceptual biases do not make good communicators.