A nurse is caring for a client who is ill with a contagious infectious disease that has a high death rate. Which of the following actions should be taken by the nurse?
a. Asking the client to talk to a health care provider about disease progression
b. Reporting the disease if such reporting is required by state law
c. Determining whether the disease is easily transmitted through air or body fluids
d. Encouraging the client to stay at home and not have visitors
Question 2
Which of the following descriptions best reflects the central purpose of laws?
a. Ensuring that the highest priority needs in society are met
b. Ensuring that ethical issues are resolved on the basis of the majority's agreement about the conclusion represented in the law
c. Helping society maintain employment (e.g., courts, jails and prisons, police officers, attorneys)
d. Maintaining public order and communicating expectations about behavior
e. Ensuring that the desires of the majority in society become the rules
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