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TEST BANK Ethics and Issues in Contemporary Nursing 3rd Edition by Margaret A. Burkhardt, Nancy Walton || All Chapters (1 - 20) - Updated Version |Complete Practice Questions with Answers This comprehensive Test Bank for "Ethics and Issues in Contemporary Nursing, 3rd Edition" by Burkhardt and Walton is an essential resource for nursing educators and students. It covers all 20 chapters, featuring a wide range of multiple-choice questions with verified answer keys that align with key topics such as ethical theory, principles, legal issues, professional relationships, patient self-determination, technology in practice, and global nursing issues. Designed to reinforce learning and assess comprehension, this test bank supports curriculum development, exam preparation, and critical thinking in nursing ethics. Perfect for instructors creating quizzes, tests, and review materials, and for students seeking practice questions to master contemporary ethical challenges in nursing.

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TEST BANK Ethics and Issues in Contemporary Nursing 3rd Edition by Margaret A. Burkhardt, Nancy Walton,
All Chapters 1 - 20

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Part I: Guides for Principled Behavior
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1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of Nursing
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2. Ethical Theory
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3. Ethical Principles
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Part II: Developing Principled Behavior
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4. Values Clarification
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5. Values Development
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6. Ethics and Professional Nursing
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7. Ethical Decision Making
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Part III: Principled Behavior in the Professional Domain
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8. Legal Issues
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9. Professional Relationship Issues
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10. Practice Issues Related to Technology
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11. Practice Issues Related to Patient Self-Determination
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12. Scholarship Issues
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Part IV: Global Issues that Interface with Nursing Practice
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13. Global Consciousness in the Twenty-First Century
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14. Health Policy Issues
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15. Economic Issues
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16. Social Issues
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17. Gender Issues
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18. Transcultural and Spiritual Issues
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Part V: The Power to Make a Difference
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19. Empowerment for Nurses
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20. Facilitating Patient Empowerment
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, 1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of Nursing
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1. For which of the following is empathy a motive?
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a. meeting the needs of others cv cv cv cv




b. moral reasoning and action cv cv cv




c. becoming a nurse cv cv




d. determining right from wrong cv cv cv




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2. Which of the following is an example of social need as an ethical foundation for nursing?
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a. Nurses must determine the health and social needs of society.
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b. Nursing finds its origin, purpose, and meaning within the context of perceived social need.
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c. Theories of social need in sociology are utilized by nursing scholars, many of whom view them as
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conceptual frameworks for nursing practice. cv cv cv cv




d. Social need determines the boundaries of the ethical principles of distributive justice, beneficence
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, and non-maleficence.
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ANSWER: b c v




3. What is the most critical factor that influences nursing practice?
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a. the traditional role of healers
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b. the role of women in society
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c. the religious and spiritual aspects of health care
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d. the introduction of male nurses into the profession
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4. Why does the social status of women affect the status of the nursing profession?
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a. Nursing has traditionally been a profession of women.
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b. Throughout history, nurses have been afforded higher social status. cv cv cv cv cv cv cv cv




c. Women of higher social status rarely become nurses.
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d. Women are more skilled than men at nurturing others.
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ANSWER: a c v




5. What historical influences affected nursing as a moral discipline?
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a. technology
b. society
c. spirituality
d. oppression
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6. What is the term that relates to knowledge gained through observation and experience?
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a. empirical
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7. Which of the following is an example of the significance of Nursing during the Middle Ages ?
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sanctioned secular nursing orders offered the only legitimate avenues for women wishing to bec
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b. Increasing respect was given to nursing and midwifery, as nurses began to practise autonomously.
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c. Healing arts in Denmark and Greece were performed in sacred ceremonies by priests, priestesses, o
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d. Most nurses were women of high social status seeking ways to legitimize their position and status.
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8. What does the term empirical relate to?
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a. serving God and thy neighbour the best way one can
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b. knowledge gained through observation and experience cv cv cv cv cv




c. healing through religious intervention, chanting, and praying
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d. the enforcement of religious doctrine related to the status of women in society
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9. When was the “Dark Period of Nursing,” when convalescent patients, prostitutes, prisoners, and drunkard
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s provided hospital nursing care?
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d. during the early Christian era cv cv cv cv




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10. Which of the following had the greatest influence on nursing traditions in Canada?
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a. Britain
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c. France
d. Germany
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11. Which of the following had the greatest influence on establishing the first hospital in the New World?
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a. Marie Rollet Hebert cv cv




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d. Renee Descartes cv




ANSWER: c c v

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