A student nurse is studying assault and battery. The student interprets assault and battery to include
a. the nurse, without consent, touched the patient in an offensive, insulting, or inju-rious way.
b. the nurse threatened to put the patient in restraints if they did not stay in bed.
c. the nurse said the bill has to be paid before the patient can leave.
d. the nurse failed to perform an act expected of a reasonable nurse.
A
Assault and battery are the legal terms applied to nonconsensual threat of touch (assault) or the actual touching (battery). Permission to do this touching is usually implied when the patient seeks medical care. Using restraints or threatening to use them on competent patients to make them do what you want them to do against their wishes is an example of false imprisonment. Failure to perform an act expected of a reasonable, prudent nurse can constitute negligence.
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