NURS 306 QUIZ 2 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE 2026/2027
List five common modes of value transmission and describe three steps in the valuing process -
Answers 1. Modeling: children learn what is of high or low value by observing parents, peers,
and significant others. Modeling may lead to socially acceptable or unacceptable behaviors.
2. Moralizing: taught a complete value system by parents or an institution that allows little
opportunity for them to weigh different values
3. Laissez-faire: leave children to explore their own values and to develop a personal value
system (little or no guidance- may lead to confusion or neglect)
4. Rewards & punishments: rewarded for demonstrating values held by parents and punished
for demonstrating unacceptable values
5. Responsible choice: encourage children to explore competing values and to weigh their
consequences- support and guidance offered as they develop personal value system
a. Choosing, prizing (treasuring), acting
2. Describe nursing practice that is consistent with the code of ethics for nursing. - Answers
Nurse that practices with compassion, respect, worth and unique attributes. Primary
commitment is the pt, advocates for the pt, makes decisions and has accountability, owes same
duties to self as other, collaborates with other health professionals and advances in the
profession
3. Describe moral distress and ways to promote moral resilience - Answers 1. Occurs when you
know the right thing to do but either personal or institutional factors make it difficult to follow
the correct course of action
a. Promoting moral resilience: importance of good relationships, accepting that change is a part
of living, refusing to view crises as insurmountable, nurturing a positive view of self and taking
care of self, and keeping things in perspective.
Identify four functions of institutional ethics committees. - Answers Education, policy making,
case review and consultation, quality, and in some cases research
Describe the professional and legal regulation of nursing practice. - Answers Nurses who
practice safely respect both the voluntary and legal controls of nursing practice. Both of these
controls are designed to ensure quality health care and to protect society from unsafe actions
6. Identify the purpose of
, Credentialing - Answers ensures the competence of its health care providers, refers to ways in
which professional competence is ensured and maintained
6. Identify the purpose of
Accreditation: - Answers process by which an educational program is evaluated and recognized
as having met certain standards
6. Identify the purpose of
licensure or registration: - Answers process by which a state determines that a candidate meets
certain minimum requirements to practice in the profession and grants a license to do so
6. Identify the purpose of
Certification - Answers the process by which a person who has met certain criteria established
by a nongovernmental association is granted recognition in a specified practice area
Identify grounds for suspending or revoking a license or registration: - Answers drugs or alcohol
abuse, fraud, deceptive practices, criminal acts, previous disciplinary action by other state
boards, gross or ordinary negligence, and physical or mental impairments, including those
resulting from aging.
intentional torts: - Answers assault: threat of violence
battery: physical violence or striking patient
Defamation: one party makes derogatory remarks about another that diminish the other party's
reputation
invasion of privacy: right of privacy (patient info)
false imprisonment: unjustified retention or prevention of the movement of another person
w/o proper consent (restraining patients, taking away call light)
Fraud: willful and purposeful misrepresentation that could cause, or has caused, loss or harm to
a person or property
• unintentional torts
negligence: - Answers performing an act that a reasonably prudent person under similar
circumstances would not do or , conversely failing to perform an act that a person would not
normally do, failure to give safe care, omit treatments or medications
Evaluate personal areas of potential liability in nursing: - Answers tandard I: Assessment
incomplete database obtained, significant omissions or errors in recorded database, failure to
note in patients care plan, failure to recognize and to report significant changes in pts condition
List five common modes of value transmission and describe three steps in the valuing process -
Answers 1. Modeling: children learn what is of high or low value by observing parents, peers,
and significant others. Modeling may lead to socially acceptable or unacceptable behaviors.
2. Moralizing: taught a complete value system by parents or an institution that allows little
opportunity for them to weigh different values
3. Laissez-faire: leave children to explore their own values and to develop a personal value
system (little or no guidance- may lead to confusion or neglect)
4. Rewards & punishments: rewarded for demonstrating values held by parents and punished
for demonstrating unacceptable values
5. Responsible choice: encourage children to explore competing values and to weigh their
consequences- support and guidance offered as they develop personal value system
a. Choosing, prizing (treasuring), acting
2. Describe nursing practice that is consistent with the code of ethics for nursing. - Answers
Nurse that practices with compassion, respect, worth and unique attributes. Primary
commitment is the pt, advocates for the pt, makes decisions and has accountability, owes same
duties to self as other, collaborates with other health professionals and advances in the
profession
3. Describe moral distress and ways to promote moral resilience - Answers 1. Occurs when you
know the right thing to do but either personal or institutional factors make it difficult to follow
the correct course of action
a. Promoting moral resilience: importance of good relationships, accepting that change is a part
of living, refusing to view crises as insurmountable, nurturing a positive view of self and taking
care of self, and keeping things in perspective.
Identify four functions of institutional ethics committees. - Answers Education, policy making,
case review and consultation, quality, and in some cases research
Describe the professional and legal regulation of nursing practice. - Answers Nurses who
practice safely respect both the voluntary and legal controls of nursing practice. Both of these
controls are designed to ensure quality health care and to protect society from unsafe actions
6. Identify the purpose of
, Credentialing - Answers ensures the competence of its health care providers, refers to ways in
which professional competence is ensured and maintained
6. Identify the purpose of
Accreditation: - Answers process by which an educational program is evaluated and recognized
as having met certain standards
6. Identify the purpose of
licensure or registration: - Answers process by which a state determines that a candidate meets
certain minimum requirements to practice in the profession and grants a license to do so
6. Identify the purpose of
Certification - Answers the process by which a person who has met certain criteria established
by a nongovernmental association is granted recognition in a specified practice area
Identify grounds for suspending or revoking a license or registration: - Answers drugs or alcohol
abuse, fraud, deceptive practices, criminal acts, previous disciplinary action by other state
boards, gross or ordinary negligence, and physical or mental impairments, including those
resulting from aging.
intentional torts: - Answers assault: threat of violence
battery: physical violence or striking patient
Defamation: one party makes derogatory remarks about another that diminish the other party's
reputation
invasion of privacy: right of privacy (patient info)
false imprisonment: unjustified retention or prevention of the movement of another person
w/o proper consent (restraining patients, taking away call light)
Fraud: willful and purposeful misrepresentation that could cause, or has caused, loss or harm to
a person or property
• unintentional torts
negligence: - Answers performing an act that a reasonably prudent person under similar
circumstances would not do or , conversely failing to perform an act that a person would not
normally do, failure to give safe care, omit treatments or medications
Evaluate personal areas of potential liability in nursing: - Answers tandard I: Assessment
incomplete database obtained, significant omissions or errors in recorded database, failure to
note in patients care plan, failure to recognize and to report significant changes in pts condition
