A nurse has heard that a fellow nurse at another hospital was charged with assault on a patient. The nurse asks the nurse manager whether assault is the same as battery. The nurse manager explains that assault differs from battery in that it:
a. is the act instead of the threat being done without permission.
b. is the threat instead of the act being done without permission.
c. concerns being offensive without permission.
d. concerns the thought without the act or the threat.
B
Assault concerns the threat to touch (or treat) another person without her permission, while battery is
the actual act of touching or treating another person without her permission.
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