A client refuses to have a pain medication administered by injection. A nurse says, "If you don't let me give you the shot, I will get help to hold you down and give it." With what crime might the nurse be charged?

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The nurse's statement of threatening to obtain help to hold the client down and administer medication via injection without their consent meets the criteria for assault, which is the threat of harmful or offensive contact without consent. Battery, on the other hand, involves the actual harmful or offensive contact. Negligence relates to the failure to exercise reasonable care, and defamation involves making false and damaging statements about a person.

A Client Refuses to Have a Pain Medication Administered by Injection