The hospital educator has just finished explaining the hospital’s policy of just culture to a new hire nurse. The educator recognizes the nurse needs further instruction about just culture when the nurse says, 

A patient who has a chronic foot wound tells the nurse that they use herbal therapies to boost immune function rather than taking antibiotics. Which action should the nurse take first?

Once a person is on a 5150 hold, the patient is automatically discharged from the hospital at the end of this 72 hour hold period.

A homeless patient who suffers from alcohol abuse is diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) and is ready to be discharged from inpatient status. Which intervention by the nurse will be most effective in ensuring continued adherence with the treatment regimen?

Which of these complementary and/or alternative therapies could the nurse suggest to a patient who has frequent UTI’s.?

9. The proximate cause requirement for a negligence tort is most likely NOT met where: 

3. A delivery driver was looking for an address as he drove down the street and was not watching the road in front of him. As a result, he did not see the pedestrian crossing the street and struck her with his van. The delivery driver immediately got out of his van to help the pedestrian. When he saw that she was unconscious, he became afraid to move her, and left her in the roadway while he ran to get his phone. While the driver was gone, a taxi drove down the same street. The taxi driver did not see the pedestrian in the roadway and drove over her, fracturing her leg.  In an action by the pedestrian against the delivery driver for damages resulting from her fractured leg, a court is most likely to find for:

10. Driving his sport utility vehicle unreasonably, David crashes into a streetlight. The streetlight falls, smashing through the roof of a house, killing Peter instantly. But for David’s negligence, Peter would not have died. Regarding the death, the crash is the:

The pulmonary veins return oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart.

4. Ted, a trucker, was traveling in a windstorm, despite receiving high wind warnings indicating that trucks were being tipped over by the wind. The strong winds caused Ted’s big rig truck to flip over, blocking the right lane of a two lane highway. Paula, who was traveling in the same direction as Ted, heard on the traffic report that the road was blocked, but decided the transit authorities would probably get it taken care of, so she continued her travels on the highway. When she came to Ted’s truck, Paula swerved into the lane of oncoming traffic to avoid it, causing her to have a head-on collision with another car, resulting in serious injuries. If Paula sues Ted for her injuries, what is the likely result?