BSNC 1020 UPDATED EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔A nurse working in a pediatric unit is faced with the ethical problem of respecting the
parents' decision to refuse a medically necessary blood transfusion for their child, based
on their religious beliefs. The nurse is concerned about the child's well-being and the
potential life-threatening consequences of not receiving the transfusion. What ethical in
this scenario?
a. Ethical indifference
b. Ethical dilemma
c. Ethical problem
d. Ethical distress - ✔✔c. Ethical problem
✔✔A nurse, frustrated with an agitated patient, uses excessive physical force to restrain
the patient, causing harm. What type of ethical in this case?
a. Ethical indifference
b. Ethical dilemma
c. Ethical disengagement
d. Ethical distress
e. Ethical violation - ✔✔e. Ethical violation
✔✔Ethics is core foundations of nursing practice
a. True
b. False - ✔✔a. True
✔✔What is the #1 nursing value in ethics?
a. promoting health and well-being
b. Promoting and respecting informed decision-making
c. Providing safe, compassionate, competent, and ethical care
d. Honouring dignity
e. maintaining privacy and confidentiality - ✔✔c. Providing safe, compassionate,
competent, and ethical care
✔✔How do you provide safe, compassionate, and competent care? (select all that
apply)
a. Look at how you communicate with the rest of the team to promote safety
b. Forming a deeper connection
c. Cultural humility
d. None of the above - ✔✔a. Look at how you communicate with the rest of the team to
promote safety
, b. Forming a deeper connection
c. Cultural humility
✔✔Ethical responsibilities? - ✔✔- Related to advocacy
- Related to the law
- Related to BCCNM practice standards
✔✔Why do we do values clarification?
a. RESOLVES ISSUES OF"VALUE CONFLICT"
b. Reflecting on decision making in a situation
c. Help nurses explore personal values and feelings and to decide how to act on
personal beliefs. it also facilitates nurse-patient communication.
d. Greater self-awareness and personal insight
e. Helps you articulate what matters most and what priorities are guiding your decision
making.
f. All of the above - ✔✔f. All of the above
✔✔What does professional accountability look like in nursing practice?
a. Keeping up with professional standards, laws, and regulations
b. Ensuring competence to provide their practices
c. MAINTAINING FITNESS TO PRACTICE
d. Sharing knowledge with other nurses, nursing students, other health-care providers
e. Advocating for comprehensive and equitable mental health care services
f. All of the above - ✔✔f. All of the above
✔✔Is the CNA a regulatory tool (it's a guide)?
a. Yes
b. No - ✔✔a. Yes
✔✔The CNA code of Ethics as a guide says?
a. Both nurses and employers have an obligation to advocate for QUALITY PRACTICE
ENVIRONMENS
b. Knowing the right thing but can't do it due to system/personal limits
c. None of the above - ✔✔a. Both nurses and employers have an obligation to advocate
for QUALITY PRACTICE ENVIRONMENS
✔✔What is advocacy?
a. Act of supporting/recommending a cause or course of action, undertaken on behalf of
persons or issues
b. To create greater equity and better health for all
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔A nurse working in a pediatric unit is faced with the ethical problem of respecting the
parents' decision to refuse a medically necessary blood transfusion for their child, based
on their religious beliefs. The nurse is concerned about the child's well-being and the
potential life-threatening consequences of not receiving the transfusion. What ethical in
this scenario?
a. Ethical indifference
b. Ethical dilemma
c. Ethical problem
d. Ethical distress - ✔✔c. Ethical problem
✔✔A nurse, frustrated with an agitated patient, uses excessive physical force to restrain
the patient, causing harm. What type of ethical in this case?
a. Ethical indifference
b. Ethical dilemma
c. Ethical disengagement
d. Ethical distress
e. Ethical violation - ✔✔e. Ethical violation
✔✔Ethics is core foundations of nursing practice
a. True
b. False - ✔✔a. True
✔✔What is the #1 nursing value in ethics?
a. promoting health and well-being
b. Promoting and respecting informed decision-making
c. Providing safe, compassionate, competent, and ethical care
d. Honouring dignity
e. maintaining privacy and confidentiality - ✔✔c. Providing safe, compassionate,
competent, and ethical care
✔✔How do you provide safe, compassionate, and competent care? (select all that
apply)
a. Look at how you communicate with the rest of the team to promote safety
b. Forming a deeper connection
c. Cultural humility
d. None of the above - ✔✔a. Look at how you communicate with the rest of the team to
promote safety
, b. Forming a deeper connection
c. Cultural humility
✔✔Ethical responsibilities? - ✔✔- Related to advocacy
- Related to the law
- Related to BCCNM practice standards
✔✔Why do we do values clarification?
a. RESOLVES ISSUES OF"VALUE CONFLICT"
b. Reflecting on decision making in a situation
c. Help nurses explore personal values and feelings and to decide how to act on
personal beliefs. it also facilitates nurse-patient communication.
d. Greater self-awareness and personal insight
e. Helps you articulate what matters most and what priorities are guiding your decision
making.
f. All of the above - ✔✔f. All of the above
✔✔What does professional accountability look like in nursing practice?
a. Keeping up with professional standards, laws, and regulations
b. Ensuring competence to provide their practices
c. MAINTAINING FITNESS TO PRACTICE
d. Sharing knowledge with other nurses, nursing students, other health-care providers
e. Advocating for comprehensive and equitable mental health care services
f. All of the above - ✔✔f. All of the above
✔✔Is the CNA a regulatory tool (it's a guide)?
a. Yes
b. No - ✔✔a. Yes
✔✔The CNA code of Ethics as a guide says?
a. Both nurses and employers have an obligation to advocate for QUALITY PRACTICE
ENVIRONMENS
b. Knowing the right thing but can't do it due to system/personal limits
c. None of the above - ✔✔a. Both nurses and employers have an obligation to advocate
for QUALITY PRACTICE ENVIRONMENS
✔✔What is advocacy?
a. Act of supporting/recommending a cause or course of action, undertaken on behalf of
persons or issues
b. To create greater equity and better health for all
