In contrast to the intentional violation of safe practices standard, the reckless conduct standard looks past the intentional violation of the rule to the intent toward the risk to the donor/patient.
For example, consider again the scenario with the nurse who intentionally did not check the patient's wristband.
Under the reckless conduct standard, the question would be whether or not the nurse understood the risk of not checking the wristband when the action was taken.
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