A new nursing graduate is working on a unit project regarding patient care and GI treatments
While interviewing a patient, who has been incessantly complaining about his lack of daily bowel movements (complete with graphic details about the type and consistency), the new nursing graduate tells the patient that if he is not quiet she will give him an enema he will never forget. This is an example of: a. invasion of privacy. c. assault.
b. battery. d. defamation.
C
Threatening to touch (or treat) another person without his consent is a definition of assault. By
threatening to give the patient "an enema he will never forget" if he is not quiet, the new nursing
graduate has threatened to give a treatment (enema) against his will. Battery is the actual act of giving
the enema (treatment), and defamation is the act of giving intentionally false information,
communication, or publication such as making a statement that could cause a patient to lose his job.
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