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NCLEX-RN Practice Questions Updated For 2023 Quiz

Question Number 2

A nurse forgets to administer a client's diuretic and the client experiences an episode of pulmonary edema. The charge nurse would consider the medication error to constitute negligence because the situation contains which element?

1. Purposeful failure to perform a health care procedure

2. Unintentional failure to perform a health care procedure

3. Act of substituting a different medication for the one ordered

4. Failure to follow a direct order by a physician

✔ Correct Answer:

2. Unintentional failure to perform a health care procedure

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