The failure to act when one should is called:
A. malfeasance
B. nonfeasance
C. damages
D. dereliction
E. misfeasance
B. nonfeasance
Nonfeasance is the failure to act. Malfeasance is to act in a wrongful or unlawful way. Damages are the legally recognizable injury to a patient. Dereliction is when the health care provider breached duty of care.
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