There is a going-away party for one of the nurses, who has been promoted to a managerial position in another hospital that is part of the same health care organization
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 is 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 or use of statements made by patients or to
disclose confidential information about a patient. Assault deals with the threat to touch another person
against their will, and battery is the actual act of touching or treating another person against their 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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