A nurse tells a patient, "If you don't stop getting out of that chair, I'm going to put some restraints on you.". What may this nurse be accused of?
a. False imprisonment c. Invasion of privacy
b. Defamation d. Malpractice
A
Assault and battery are the legal terms applied to nonconsensual threat of touch (assault) or the actual touching (battery). Use of restraints may also be interpreted as false imprisonment. False imprisonment means making someone wrongfully believe that they cannot leave a place. It is often associated with assault and battery claims. Assault and battery are the legal terms applied to nonconsensual threat of touch (assault) or the actual touching (battery). Malpractice is the im-proper performance of professional duties, a failure to meet the standards of care that results in harm to another person. Defamation (libel and slander) refers to causing damage to someone else's reputation. If the means of transmitting the damaging information is written, it is called libel; if it is oral or spoken, it is called slander. Invasion of privacy applies to several behaviors, such as photographing a procedure and showing it without the patient's consent, going through a patient's belongings without consent, or talking about a patient's private life publicly.
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