The nursing student is studying about the legal concept of assault in nursing practice. Which of the following best demonstrates this concept?

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Assault in the legal context, especially within nursing practice, involves an act that creates an apprehension in another of imminent harmful or offensive contact. When a nurse demands a client take medication or threatens to place them in restraints, it constitutes assault because it creates a fear or threat of harmful or offensive contact without the client's consent. Choices B, C, and D do not exemplify assault in the same manner; B shows implied consent, C might be more related to battery if it involves actual contact without consent, and D could be considered a form of false imprisonment or a safety measure depending on the context, rather than assault.

The Nursing Student Is Studying About the Legal Concept of Assault