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The reasonable person standard states that:
 
  a. it takes a reasonable person to maintain a good relationship
  b. reasonable people tend to have reasonable children and make good partners
  c. it is used to demonstrate a breach of duty
  d. it is used by State Boards of Nursing to evaluate the male-female ratios according to clinical position

Question 2

There is a going-away party for a nurse you work with who has been promoted to a managerial position in another facility that is part of the same health care organization you both currently work under.
 
  Photographs have been taken of nurses around the unit as a way for the nurse to remember fellow colleagues. If patients are inadvertently photographed and no consent for this has been obtained, this is an example of: a. assault c. invasion of privacy
  b. battery d. defamation



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Answer to Question 1

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The reasonable person standard is used by courts of law when dealing with cases of potential negligence and malpractice to show what a reasonable person (nurse) would do in a given situation. Reviewing the organization's policies and procedures, evidence from the states' Nurse Practice Act, and the use of expert witnesses to the standard of nursing practice in that community are all examples of the reasonable person standard.

Answer to Question 2

C
Consent must always be obtained for any photographs, use of statements made by patients, or disclosure of confidential information about a patient. To not obtain consent under these situations is considered to be an invasion of privacy. Assault deals with the threat to touch another person against his will. Battery is the actual act of touching or treating another person against his will. Defamation (including libel and slander) is concerned with intentionally giving false information that may cause the loss of a person's reputation.



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