Which situation exemplifies both assault and battery?
1. The nurse becomes angry, calls the client offensive names, and withholds treatment.
2. The nurse threatens to "tie down" the client and then does so, against the client's wishes.
3. The nurse hides the client's clothes and medicates the client to prevent elopement.
4. The nurse restrains the client without just cause and communicates this to family.
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Rationale: The nurse in this situation has committed both the acts of assault and battery. Assault refers to an action that results in fear and apprehension that the person will be touched without consent. Battery is the touching of another person without consent.
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