There is a going-away party for a nurse you work with who has been promoted to a managerial position in another facility that is part of the same health care organization you both currently work under
Photographs have been taken of nurses around the unit as a way for the nurse to remember fellow colleagues. If patients are inadvertently photographed and no consent for this has been obtained, this is an example of: a. assault c. invasion of privacy
b. battery d. defamation
C
Consent must always be obtained for any photographs, use of statements made by patients, or disclosure of confidential information about a patient. To not obtain consent under these situations is considered to be an invasion of privacy. Assault deals with the threat to touch another person against his will. Battery is the actual act of touching or treating another person against his will. Defamation (including libel and slander) is concerned with intentionally giving false information that may cause the loss of a person's reputation.
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