Question 1

Strangulation injuries are often associated with intimate partner violence (IPV) and are a risk factor for intimate partner homicide of women. There are three general types of strangulation-manual, ligature, and

Accepted Answer

A)  chemical. 
B)  artificial. 
C)  staged. 
D)  mechanical.

Question 2

Which of the following questions should the nurse ask to help the person feel safe prior to an interview?

Accepted Answer

A)  Do you have any concerns about carrying out this interview? 
B)  Have you ever spoken with someone in law enforcement before? 
C)  How is this experience making you feel? 
D)  When did you realize you are a victim of human trafficking?

Question 3

Intervention planning for the mental health patient should include

Accepted Answer

A)  educating the patient about coping skills and cognitive style. 
B)  family and friends 
C)  limited communication with entire health-care team. 
D)  A and B.

Question 4

Which of the following options is an example of Cause of Death (COD)?

Accepted Answer

A)  Eye witness accounts 
B)  Homicide 
C)  Suicide 
D)  Gunshot wound

Question 5

A legal nurse consultant is

Accepted Answer

A)  a registered nurse who is knowledgeable in many aspects of law, nursing, and medicine, as well as the sociocultural influences in patient care, legal claims, and litigation. 
B)  a nurse who serves as a secretary in a large law corporation. 
C)  a clinical nurse who served as a witness in a landmark case. 
D)  a nurse who reviews evidence of child abuse.

Question 6

Laws are derived from four major sources on the national level in the United States and in several states and territories These are Common law, Administrative law, Legislative Law, and

Accepted Answer

A)  treatises. 
B)  policies. 
C)  regulations. 
D)  constitutional law.

Question 7

Dynamic factors that place an offender at risk for sexually offending include

Accepted Answer

A)  age at the time of the offense. 
B)  criminal history. 
C)  gender of the victims. 
D)  attitude favorable toward sexual offending.

Question 8

The United States Constitution prohibited cruel and unusual punishment for inmates, which has led to the emergence of the following inmates' rights.

Accepted Answer

A)  Access to care, ordered care, and surgical care equal to the public at large. 
B)  Access to care, ordered care, and professional judgment. 
C)  Ordered care, professional judgment, and reasonable emergency care. 
D)  Access to cost effective care, reasonable preventive care, and care mandated by correctional personnel.

Question 9

What is a legal reform theory that considers how the well-being of those in the legal system is impacted by legal actions, rules, and procedures?

Accepted Answer

A)  General Systems 
B)  Therapeutic Intervention 
C)  Therapeutic Jurisprudence 
D)  Complexity Theory

Question 10

Low-fidelity simulation is

Accepted Answer

A)  connected. 
B)  immersive. 
C)  integrated. 
D)  static.

Question 11

Detention and exploitation are more likely to take place in which stage of human trafficking?

Accepted Answer

A)  origin 
B)  transit 
C)  destination 
D)  return

Question 12

Correctional nursing practice is influenced by

Accepted Answer

A)  lack of constitutional rights of inmates that limit health care provided to them. 
B)  health care that is a dire medical necessity. 
C)  principles of constitutional law that require provision of dental, medical, psychiatric and psychological care. 
D)  Eighth Amendment requirements to modify care to inmates when cost is in question.

Question 13

Informatics solutions specifically for forensic nursing do not include

Accepted Answer

A)  generating data. 
B)  warehousing data. 
C)  data to attorneys and law enforcement. 
D)  vital statistics data.

Question 14

An intentional tort accomplished by offensive touching of another without consent is a/an

Accepted Answer

A)  assault. 
B)  false imprisonment. 
C)  intentional infliction of emotional distress. 
D)  battery.

Question 15

The majority of adolescents in correctional facilities

Accepted Answer

A)  just need discipline and guidelines for behavior disorders. 
B)  are not in need of serious medical or mental health care. 
C)  have access to abundant services that exist but are seldom used for their health care. 
D)  should be prudently screened for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTS
D)  that could lead to violent behavior.

Question 16

Well-designed forensic nursing research, once it has been published and disseminated, has the potential to become a practice standard, as demonstrated in McFarlane, Groff, O'Brien, and Watson (2006). This randomized clinical trial concluded that simple abuse assessment and the offer of referrals have the potential to

Accepted Answer

A)  interrupt and prevent recurrence of intimate partner violence. 
B)  escalate and magnify recurrence of intimate partner violence. 
C)  protect and insulate the survivor of the intimate partner violence. 
D)  reunite the abused and the abuser in a working relationship.

Question 17

During a forensic interview, the interviewee tells the nurse about crimes committed not on record. He then tells the nurse that she can't tell anyone about this because of the nurse-client relationship, stating, "It's like going to confession." The nurse should

Accepted Answer

A)  disregard what the interviewee said because he is only doing this to taunt the nurse. 
B)  not record the information because it would be a breach of nurse-client confidentiality. 
C)  record the information on a separate record for the purpose of treatment interventions. 
D)  document the comments and explain the limited nature of confidentiality in forensic interviews.

Question 18

Immobility, inactivity, and cognitive impairment are the leading cause of

Accepted Answer

A)  elder abuse. 
B)  elder maltreatment. 
C)  placement in a long-term care facility. 
D)  elder abuse, maltreatment, and financial coercion.

Question 19

Forensic health care indicates that a combination of legal and health-care issues must be addressed in patient management. In relation to treatment of suicidal patients, which one of the following statements is true?

Accepted Answer

A)  A nurse may voluntarily elect not to report suspected intention of harm due to HIPAA privacy laws. 
B)  A decision to treat a patient against his/her will requires a legal process that assures patient protection. 
C)  The patient may petition the court for legal treatment. 
D)  Federal laws mandate commitment and treatment of a dangerous patient.

Question 20

Nursing's Social Policy Statement defines nursing's obligations to society and includes six critical elements of nursing-provision of a caring relationship, attention to human experiences and responses to health and illness, integration of objective data with the patient's subjective experience, application of scientific knowledge, advancement of professional knowledge, and the promotion of

Accepted Answer

A)  health. 
B)  quality of life. 
C)  social justice. 
D)  well-being.

Exam 1: Forensic Nursing Evidence Based Principles and Practice