NURSING ETHICS COMPREHENSIVE ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔nurse practice act - ✔✔defines nursing practice and establishes standards for
nurses in your state
✔✔nursing standard of care - ✔✔guideline for good nursing care - based on what an
ordinary, prudent nurse with similar education and nursing experience would do in a
similar situation.
✔✔Oregon Death with Dignity Act - ✔✔allows terminally ill Oregonians to end their lives
through voluntary self-administration of lethal medication
✔✔patient competency - ✔✔18 years old or older, pregnant or married woman, self
supporting minor, can make a decision, understand the options for care
✔✔patient self-determination act - ✔✔federal law that mandates that every individual
has the right to make decisions regarding medical care
✔✔personal liability - ✔✔holds us responsible for our own behavior, including negligent
behavior
✔✔physician-assisted suicide - ✔✔a form of euthanasia in which a doctor provides the
means for someone to end his or her own life
✔✔preponderance - ✔✔majority (of the evidence)
✔✔proximate cause - ✔✔a reasonable cause-and-effect relationship can be shown
between the omission or commission of the nursing act and the harm to the patient
✔✔slander - ✔✔verbal defamation
✔✔statutory law - ✔✔developed by the legislative branch
, ✔✔unintentional tort - ✔✔wrongful act - did not mean to cause harm
✔✔vicarious liability - ✔✔responsibility of one person for the actions of another
✔✔advocate - ✔✔one who defends or pleads a cause or issue on behalf of another
✔✔doctrine of informed consent - ✔✔full disclosure of facts the patient needs to make
an intelligent (informed) decision before any invasive treatment or procedure is
performed
✔✔ethical dilemmas - ✔✔situations that do not have a clear right or wrong answer
✔✔liable - ✔✔legally responsible
✔✔standards of care - ✔✔acts whose performance is required, permitted, or prohibited
✔✔value clarification - ✔✔the process of self-evaluation that helps gain insight into
personal values
✔✔verdict - ✔✔decision
✔✔ autonomy - ✔✔independence, free to choose
✔✔Beneficence - ✔✔to do good
✔✔Beneficent Paternalism - ✔✔a disrespectful attitude toward the patient and what the
patient has to contribute to personal care and recovery
✔✔ethics - ✔✔values that influence a person's behavior and feelings and beliefs about
what is right or wrong
✔✔fidelity - ✔✔acting in the patient's best interest when the capacity to make free
choice is no longer available to the patient
✔✔justice - ✔✔the nurse must deliver fair and equal treatment to all patients
✔✔morals - ✔✔beliefs about what is right or wrong
✔✔nonmaleficence - ✔✔duty to do no harm
✔✔nursing ethics - ✔✔the values and ethical principles governing nursing practice,
conduct, and relationships
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔nurse practice act - ✔✔defines nursing practice and establishes standards for
nurses in your state
✔✔nursing standard of care - ✔✔guideline for good nursing care - based on what an
ordinary, prudent nurse with similar education and nursing experience would do in a
similar situation.
✔✔Oregon Death with Dignity Act - ✔✔allows terminally ill Oregonians to end their lives
through voluntary self-administration of lethal medication
✔✔patient competency - ✔✔18 years old or older, pregnant or married woman, self
supporting minor, can make a decision, understand the options for care
✔✔patient self-determination act - ✔✔federal law that mandates that every individual
has the right to make decisions regarding medical care
✔✔personal liability - ✔✔holds us responsible for our own behavior, including negligent
behavior
✔✔physician-assisted suicide - ✔✔a form of euthanasia in which a doctor provides the
means for someone to end his or her own life
✔✔preponderance - ✔✔majority (of the evidence)
✔✔proximate cause - ✔✔a reasonable cause-and-effect relationship can be shown
between the omission or commission of the nursing act and the harm to the patient
✔✔slander - ✔✔verbal defamation
✔✔statutory law - ✔✔developed by the legislative branch
, ✔✔unintentional tort - ✔✔wrongful act - did not mean to cause harm
✔✔vicarious liability - ✔✔responsibility of one person for the actions of another
✔✔advocate - ✔✔one who defends or pleads a cause or issue on behalf of another
✔✔doctrine of informed consent - ✔✔full disclosure of facts the patient needs to make
an intelligent (informed) decision before any invasive treatment or procedure is
performed
✔✔ethical dilemmas - ✔✔situations that do not have a clear right or wrong answer
✔✔liable - ✔✔legally responsible
✔✔standards of care - ✔✔acts whose performance is required, permitted, or prohibited
✔✔value clarification - ✔✔the process of self-evaluation that helps gain insight into
personal values
✔✔verdict - ✔✔decision
✔✔ autonomy - ✔✔independence, free to choose
✔✔Beneficence - ✔✔to do good
✔✔Beneficent Paternalism - ✔✔a disrespectful attitude toward the patient and what the
patient has to contribute to personal care and recovery
✔✔ethics - ✔✔values that influence a person's behavior and feelings and beliefs about
what is right or wrong
✔✔fidelity - ✔✔acting in the patient's best interest when the capacity to make free
choice is no longer available to the patient
✔✔justice - ✔✔the nurse must deliver fair and equal treatment to all patients
✔✔morals - ✔✔beliefs about what is right or wrong
✔✔nonmaleficence - ✔✔duty to do no harm
✔✔nursing ethics - ✔✔the values and ethical principles governing nursing practice,
conduct, and relationships
