NURSING ETHICS TEST CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
PRACTICE SOLUTION GRADED A+
◉ Values. Answer: - personal beliefs about the worth of thoughts,
objects, and behaviors
◉ Law. Answer: - concerned with society as a whole
- enforced by courts, statutes, and boards of nursing
- external
◉ Ethics. Answer: - concerned with the good of the individual
- internal
- enforced by committees and professional organizations
◉ nonnormative ethics. Answer: - meta-ethics
- seeks to understand the nature of ethical properties
◉ normative ethics. Answer: - provides norms or standards to guide
our behavior and help us evaluate behaviors
, ◉ deontological ethics. Answer: - duties human beings owe to one
another
- strength lies in emphasizing dignity of humans
◉ virtue. Answer: - emphasizes development of good character
- wisdom, courage, temperance, justice, fortitude, generosity, self-
respect, good temper, sincerity
◉ duty. Answer: - obvious obligations toward others
- avoid wronging others, treat people as equals, fidelity, reparation,
gratitude, recognizing merit, beneficence, non-maleficence, self-
improvement
◉ teleological. Answer: - bases norms and rules on consequences of
the action
- end justifies the means
- utilitarianism
◉ rule utilitarianism. Answer: - seeks greatest happiness for all
◉ act utilitarianism. Answer: - in a given situation, which act brings
the greatest happiness
EVALUATION 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
PRACTICE SOLUTION GRADED A+
◉ Values. Answer: - personal beliefs about the worth of thoughts,
objects, and behaviors
◉ Law. Answer: - concerned with society as a whole
- enforced by courts, statutes, and boards of nursing
- external
◉ Ethics. Answer: - concerned with the good of the individual
- internal
- enforced by committees and professional organizations
◉ nonnormative ethics. Answer: - meta-ethics
- seeks to understand the nature of ethical properties
◉ normative ethics. Answer: - provides norms or standards to guide
our behavior and help us evaluate behaviors
, ◉ deontological ethics. Answer: - duties human beings owe to one
another
- strength lies in emphasizing dignity of humans
◉ virtue. Answer: - emphasizes development of good character
- wisdom, courage, temperance, justice, fortitude, generosity, self-
respect, good temper, sincerity
◉ duty. Answer: - obvious obligations toward others
- avoid wronging others, treat people as equals, fidelity, reparation,
gratitude, recognizing merit, beneficence, non-maleficence, self-
improvement
◉ teleological. Answer: - bases norms and rules on consequences of
the action
- end justifies the means
- utilitarianism
◉ rule utilitarianism. Answer: - seeks greatest happiness for all
◉ act utilitarianism. Answer: - in a given situation, which act brings
the greatest happiness
