The nursing assistant left a side rail down upon exiting the room of a patient who had just returned from the recovery room postoperatively. What does this scenario most closely illustrate?
1. Personal injury
2. Criminal intent
3. Malpractice
4. Negligence
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Explanation: 1. It is not yet clear that any personal injury has occurred.
2. There is no indication that this nursing assistant had any criminal intent when leaving the side rail down.
3. Malpractice is the failure of a professional person to act in accordance with the prevailing professional standards or failure to foresee consequences that a professional person, having the necessary skill and education, should foresee.
4. Negligence is the failure to act as an ordinary prudent person would under similar circumstances, and is based upon that person's education and training.
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