A client is admitted to a nursing care unit with a finger injury. A nurse immediately applies pressure to the client's finger to stop the bleeding. Upon application, the client yells with pain as the nurse pressed too hard on the site
After his wound is dressed, the client says that the nurse should not have pressed so hard on the finger and threatens to sue the nurse. The nurse does not respond to the client's threat of law suit. Which factor accounts for immunizing the nurse against prosecution? A) The fact that the nurse administered first aid care to the client
B) The fact that the nurse dressed the client's finger wound
C) According to nursing laws, nurses are independent of facing trials
D) Nurses can be sued only if a malpractice results in a client's death
A
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