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Which of these choices contains the six elements necessary for malpractice?

  • A

    Causation, foreseeability, damages to the patient, a duty that was owed to the client and this duty was breached, and direct rather than indirect harm to the client.

  • B

    Causation, foreseeability, damages to the patient, a duty that was owed to the client and this duty was breached, and direct and/or indirect harm to the client.

  • C

    Causation, correlation, damages to the patient, a duty that was owed to the client and this duty was breached, and direct and/or indirect harm to the client.

  • D

    Causation, foreseeability, damages to the patient, a duty that was owed to the client and this duty was breached, and a medical license.

Correct Response: B

The six essential components of malpractice include causation, foreseeability, damages to the patient, a duty that was owed to the client and this duty was breached, and, lastly, this breach of duty led to direct and/or indirect harm to the client.

A medical license is not necessary; nurses and other healthcare professionals can be found guilty of malpractice. Lastly, correlation is the relationship of simultaneously changing variables. For example, a ppositive correlation exists when the two variables both increase or decrease; and a negative occurs when one variable increases and the other decreases.