Nursing 2000 Exam 2 with 100% Correct
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What education level is expected to expand nursing knowledge through research? -
ANSWER-Doctoral programs
What is the 1st type of nursing school in the U.S.? - ANSWER-Diploma programs
What nursing program scope of practice was initially considered "bedside" or
"technical"? - ANSWER-Associate Degree nursing (ADN)
What profession has the largest # of personnel in the health care system? - ANSWER-
nursing
What type of care is skilled nursing care? - ANSWER-Long-term care
A personal standard of what is right and wrong, good and bad, in a situation is defined
as? - ANSWER-Morality
This entity signs amendments and bills into laws? - ANSWER-The executive branch
This is when duty to give care is ignored? - ANSWER-Abandonment
A state board of nursing is part of this source of law? - ANSWER-Administrative
Oral defamation? - ANSWER-Slander
Assault without a weapon is known as this type of criminal offense? - ANSWER-
Misdemeanor
Failure to use adequate precautions to protect against patient injury, dysfunctional
communication, poor record keeping, abandonment, failure to teach, or using faulty
equipment - ANSWER-Causes for nursing litigation
They protect hospital personnel and improve quality of care? - ANSWER-Risk
management
Expert witness, professional literature, institutional policies, procedure books, drug
references, professional standards and licensure - ANSWER-Legal sources of
standards of care
, Conduct that falls below the standard established by the law? - ANSWER-Negligence
This ethical principle states that is the obligation to be fair to all people? - ANSWER-
Justice
This ethical principle requires that a decision be made from a disinterested,
dispassionate, consistent viewpoint, with full information? - ANSWER-Ideal observer
This ethical principle relates to doing no harm to your patient? - ANSWER-
Nonmaleficence
This ethical principle involves the right to be protected against intrusive contact from
others? - ANSWER-Privacy
This theory of ethics states that an act is moral if its motives or intentions were good,
regardless of the outcome? - ANSWER-Deontology
The first step in an ethical decision making process is to? - ANSWER-Clarify the ethical
dilemma
This ethical principle refers to the faithfulness or loyalty to responsibility accepted as
part of the practice of nursing? - ANSWER-Fidelity
This ethical principle states that individuals have the right to determine their own actions
and the freedom to make their own decisions? - ANSWER-Autonomy
Which ethical principle is applied when the nurse reports poor nursing practice by a
colleague? - ANSWER-Nonmaleficence
This ethical principle means to deal with the truth? - ANSWER-Veracity
This classification of law deals with actions harmful to the public? - ANSWER-Criminal
The 1st right to die case to go before the U.S. Supreme Court was? - ANSWER-Nancy
Cruzan
A reason why a state board of nursing may revoke your license is? - ANSWER-
Practicing while impaired, negligence, or being convicted of a felony
This law refers to laws enacted by legislative bodies? - ANSWER-Statutory
The function of this type of jury is to examine the accusations against someone charged
with a crime and to determine whether or not he/she should be indicted and go to trial? -
ANSWER-Grand
Answers
What education level is expected to expand nursing knowledge through research? -
ANSWER-Doctoral programs
What is the 1st type of nursing school in the U.S.? - ANSWER-Diploma programs
What nursing program scope of practice was initially considered "bedside" or
"technical"? - ANSWER-Associate Degree nursing (ADN)
What profession has the largest # of personnel in the health care system? - ANSWER-
nursing
What type of care is skilled nursing care? - ANSWER-Long-term care
A personal standard of what is right and wrong, good and bad, in a situation is defined
as? - ANSWER-Morality
This entity signs amendments and bills into laws? - ANSWER-The executive branch
This is when duty to give care is ignored? - ANSWER-Abandonment
A state board of nursing is part of this source of law? - ANSWER-Administrative
Oral defamation? - ANSWER-Slander
Assault without a weapon is known as this type of criminal offense? - ANSWER-
Misdemeanor
Failure to use adequate precautions to protect against patient injury, dysfunctional
communication, poor record keeping, abandonment, failure to teach, or using faulty
equipment - ANSWER-Causes for nursing litigation
They protect hospital personnel and improve quality of care? - ANSWER-Risk
management
Expert witness, professional literature, institutional policies, procedure books, drug
references, professional standards and licensure - ANSWER-Legal sources of
standards of care
, Conduct that falls below the standard established by the law? - ANSWER-Negligence
This ethical principle states that is the obligation to be fair to all people? - ANSWER-
Justice
This ethical principle requires that a decision be made from a disinterested,
dispassionate, consistent viewpoint, with full information? - ANSWER-Ideal observer
This ethical principle relates to doing no harm to your patient? - ANSWER-
Nonmaleficence
This ethical principle involves the right to be protected against intrusive contact from
others? - ANSWER-Privacy
This theory of ethics states that an act is moral if its motives or intentions were good,
regardless of the outcome? - ANSWER-Deontology
The first step in an ethical decision making process is to? - ANSWER-Clarify the ethical
dilemma
This ethical principle refers to the faithfulness or loyalty to responsibility accepted as
part of the practice of nursing? - ANSWER-Fidelity
This ethical principle states that individuals have the right to determine their own actions
and the freedom to make their own decisions? - ANSWER-Autonomy
Which ethical principle is applied when the nurse reports poor nursing practice by a
colleague? - ANSWER-Nonmaleficence
This ethical principle means to deal with the truth? - ANSWER-Veracity
This classification of law deals with actions harmful to the public? - ANSWER-Criminal
The 1st right to die case to go before the U.S. Supreme Court was? - ANSWER-Nancy
Cruzan
A reason why a state board of nursing may revoke your license is? - ANSWER-
Practicing while impaired, negligence, or being convicted of a felony
This law refers to laws enacted by legislative bodies? - ANSWER-Statutory
The function of this type of jury is to examine the accusations against someone charged
with a crime and to determine whether or not he/she should be indicted and go to trial? -
ANSWER-Grand
