Answer: The nurse could be charged with assault.
Explanation:
The options are:
a. The nurse could be charged with assault.
b. The nurse could be charged with battery.
c. The nurse will be justified in administering the medication by the intramuscular route once a prescription has been obtained from the physician.
d. The nurse is justified in administering the medication by way of the intramuscular route, because the client has a communicable disease.
Before going further, it'll be right to explain some terms. Antibiotics are strong medicines that are used to kill bacteria and oral antibiotics are often prescribed to be swallowed in either pill or in liquid form. Intramuscular injection is when a medication is being given into the muscles through the use of an injection.
In this case, we are told that the nurse is planning to administer an oral antibiotic to a client with a communicable disease but that the client refuses the medication and tells the nurse that the medication causes abdominal cramping and the nurse responds, by telling the patient that the medication is needed to prevent the spread of infection, and if the patient doesn't take it orally, it will be given in an intramuscular injection.
In this case, the nurse could be charged with assault because the patient complained about abdominal cramping anytime the antibiotics is taken and the best thing the nurse could have done is to call the doctor's attention to it in order to know what's really wrong with the patient and the reason for the cramp. As a nurse, she should also be gentle with her patients and not threaten them.
