Correct Answer + Rationale?  Subject: Nursing Leadership and Management Situation:  On admission at the emergency room, the client is perspiring profusely, breathing hardly and complaining of dizziness and palpitations. The nurse on duty left the room to call the doctor. This act of the nurse may be a ground for: * a. Reckless imprudence b. Malpractice c. Professional negligence d. Breach of contract

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Correct Answer + Rationale? 
Subject: Nursing Leadership and Management

Situation:  On admission at the emergency room, the client is perspiring profusely, breathing hardly and complaining of dizziness and palpitations. The nurse on duty left the room to call the doctor.

This act of the nurse may be a ground for: *
a. Reckless imprudence
b. Malpractice
c. Professional negligence
d. Breach of contract

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