NURS4803 TESTBANK Exam 1 new Leading, Managing, and
Following Yoder-Wise: Leading and Managing in Nursing, 7th
Edition(2025/2026 REVISED EXAM PRACTICE GUIDE) (CONTAINS
COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS)
,Chapter 01:
Legal and Ethical Issues
Yoder-Wise: Leading and Managing in Nursing, 7th Edition
MULTIPLE
CHOICE
1. The manager in the coronary care unit believes an important ethical
consideration in performance evaluations is to include the
employee’s good qualities and give positive direction for professional
growth. What ethical principle does this represent?
a. Justice
b. Fidelity
c. Beneficence
d. Nonmaleficence
ANS: D
Nonmaleficence refers to “doing no harm.” For a nurse manager
following this principle, performance evaluation should emphasize an
employee’s good qualities and give positive direction for growth.
Destroying the employee’s self-esteem and self-worth would be
considered doing harm under this principle.
TOP: AONE competency: Professionalism
2. A staff nurse in the area that you manage has excelled in the delivery of
patient education. You are considering implementing a new job
description that would broaden her opportunity to teach patients and
orient new staff members to the value of patient education. What ethical
principle is being reinforced?
, a. Justice
b. Fidelity
c. Paternalism
d. Respect for
others
ANS: C
The principle of paternalism allows one person to make partial decisions
for another and is most frequently deemed to be a negative or undesirable
principle. Paternalism, however, may be used to assist persons to make
decisions when they do not have sufficient data or expertise. Paternalism
becomes undesirable when the entire decision is taken away from the
employee.
TOP: AONE competency: Professionalism
3. A patient refuses a simple procedure that you believe is in the patient’s best
interest. What two
ethical principles are in conflict in this situation?
a. Fidelity and justice
b. Veracity and fidelity
c. Autonomy and beneficence
d. Paternalism and respect for others
ANS: C
Autonomy refers to the freedom to make a choice (e.g., refuse a
procedure), and beneficence to doing good (performing a procedure that
will benefit the patient).
TOP: AONE competency: Professionalism
, 4. An individual in a wheelchair is applying for the position of receptionist
in an outpatient clinic. What does the nurse manager understand based
on The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 requirements for
employers?
a. Make reasonable accommodations for persons who are disabled.
b. Allow modified job expectations for persons recovering from alcoholism.
c. Hire disabled individuals before hiring other qualified, non-disabled
persons.
d. Treat, for purposes of employment, homosexuals and bisexuals as
disabled.
ANS: A
The purposes of the ADA are to eliminate discrimination against persons
with disabilities and to provide consistent, enforceable standards to address
discrimination in the workplace.
TOP: AONE competency: Business Skills
5. A staff nurse, who was fired for reporting patient abuse to the appropriate
state agency, files a whistleblower lawsuit against the former employer.
What reason would the court provide to uphold a valid whistleblower suit
claiming retaliation by the nurse?
a. Previously reported the complaint, in writing, to hospital administration.
b. Threatened to give full details of the patient abuse to local media sources.
c. Was discharged after three unsuccessful attempts at
progressive discipline had failed.
d. Had organized, before filing the complaint, a work stoppage
action by fellow employees.
Following Yoder-Wise: Leading and Managing in Nursing, 7th
Edition(2025/2026 REVISED EXAM PRACTICE GUIDE) (CONTAINS
COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS)
,Chapter 01:
Legal and Ethical Issues
Yoder-Wise: Leading and Managing in Nursing, 7th Edition
MULTIPLE
CHOICE
1. The manager in the coronary care unit believes an important ethical
consideration in performance evaluations is to include the
employee’s good qualities and give positive direction for professional
growth. What ethical principle does this represent?
a. Justice
b. Fidelity
c. Beneficence
d. Nonmaleficence
ANS: D
Nonmaleficence refers to “doing no harm.” For a nurse manager
following this principle, performance evaluation should emphasize an
employee’s good qualities and give positive direction for growth.
Destroying the employee’s self-esteem and self-worth would be
considered doing harm under this principle.
TOP: AONE competency: Professionalism
2. A staff nurse in the area that you manage has excelled in the delivery of
patient education. You are considering implementing a new job
description that would broaden her opportunity to teach patients and
orient new staff members to the value of patient education. What ethical
principle is being reinforced?
, a. Justice
b. Fidelity
c. Paternalism
d. Respect for
others
ANS: C
The principle of paternalism allows one person to make partial decisions
for another and is most frequently deemed to be a negative or undesirable
principle. Paternalism, however, may be used to assist persons to make
decisions when they do not have sufficient data or expertise. Paternalism
becomes undesirable when the entire decision is taken away from the
employee.
TOP: AONE competency: Professionalism
3. A patient refuses a simple procedure that you believe is in the patient’s best
interest. What two
ethical principles are in conflict in this situation?
a. Fidelity and justice
b. Veracity and fidelity
c. Autonomy and beneficence
d. Paternalism and respect for others
ANS: C
Autonomy refers to the freedom to make a choice (e.g., refuse a
procedure), and beneficence to doing good (performing a procedure that
will benefit the patient).
TOP: AONE competency: Professionalism
, 4. An individual in a wheelchair is applying for the position of receptionist
in an outpatient clinic. What does the nurse manager understand based
on The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 requirements for
employers?
a. Make reasonable accommodations for persons who are disabled.
b. Allow modified job expectations for persons recovering from alcoholism.
c. Hire disabled individuals before hiring other qualified, non-disabled
persons.
d. Treat, for purposes of employment, homosexuals and bisexuals as
disabled.
ANS: A
The purposes of the ADA are to eliminate discrimination against persons
with disabilities and to provide consistent, enforceable standards to address
discrimination in the workplace.
TOP: AONE competency: Business Skills
5. A staff nurse, who was fired for reporting patient abuse to the appropriate
state agency, files a whistleblower lawsuit against the former employer.
What reason would the court provide to uphold a valid whistleblower suit
claiming retaliation by the nurse?
a. Previously reported the complaint, in writing, to hospital administration.
b. Threatened to give full details of the patient abuse to local media sources.
c. Was discharged after three unsuccessful attempts at
progressive discipline had failed.
d. Had organized, before filing the complaint, a work stoppage
action by fellow employees.
