ACAS BEST PRACTICE KNOWLEDGE EXAM 1
KEY CONCEPTS AND PRACTICE QUESTIONS
◉ ANA Code of Ethics.
Answer: 9 provisions
◉ ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses Provision 1.
Answer: Nurse practices with compassion and respect for inherent,
dignity, worth, and attributes of every person
◉ ANA Code of Ethics Provision 2.
Answer: The nurse's primary commitment is to the patient, whether
an individual, family, group, or community.
◉ ANA Code of Ethics Provision 3.
Answer: The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights,
health, and safety of the patient.
◉ ANA Code of Ethics Provision 4.
Answer: The nurse has authority, accountability, and responsibility
for nursing practice; makes decisions; and takes action consistent
with the obligation to promote health and to provide optimal care.
,◉ ANA Code of Ethics Provision 5.
Answer: The nurse owes the same duties to self as to others,
including the responsibility to promote health and safety, preserve
wholeness of character and integrity, maintain competence, and
continue personal and professional growth.
◉ ANA Code of Ethics Provision 6.
Answer: The nurse, through individual and collective effort,
establishes, maintains, and improves the ethical environment of the
work setting and conditions of employment that are conductive to
safe, quality health care.
◉ ANA Code of Ethics Provision 7.
Answer: The nurse, in all roles and settings, advances the profession
through research and scholarly inquiry, professional standards
development, and the generation of both nursing and health policy.
◉ ANA Code of Ethics Provision 8.
Answer: The nurse collaborates with other health professionals and
the public to protect human rights, promote health diplomacy, and
reduce health disparities.
◉ ANA Code of Ethics Provision 9.
, Answer: The profession of nursing, collectively through its
professional organizations, must articulate nursing values, maintain
the integrity of the profession, and integrate principles of social
justice into nursing and health policy.
◉ Advocate.
Answer: Speak for those who can't
Interprets and provides necessary education
Repeats and accepts patients decisions
Communicates to the health care provider
Must respect wishes even if you do not agree
◉ Delegator.
Answer: Never assign a job that you would not personally do
yourself
Entrusting and transferring responsibility of certain task to other
personnel
Must know the scope of those you are delegating tasks to
◉ Nightingale.
Answer: 1860
Founder of modern nursing
Crimean War
KEY CONCEPTS AND PRACTICE QUESTIONS
◉ ANA Code of Ethics.
Answer: 9 provisions
◉ ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses Provision 1.
Answer: Nurse practices with compassion and respect for inherent,
dignity, worth, and attributes of every person
◉ ANA Code of Ethics Provision 2.
Answer: The nurse's primary commitment is to the patient, whether
an individual, family, group, or community.
◉ ANA Code of Ethics Provision 3.
Answer: The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights,
health, and safety of the patient.
◉ ANA Code of Ethics Provision 4.
Answer: The nurse has authority, accountability, and responsibility
for nursing practice; makes decisions; and takes action consistent
with the obligation to promote health and to provide optimal care.
,◉ ANA Code of Ethics Provision 5.
Answer: The nurse owes the same duties to self as to others,
including the responsibility to promote health and safety, preserve
wholeness of character and integrity, maintain competence, and
continue personal and professional growth.
◉ ANA Code of Ethics Provision 6.
Answer: The nurse, through individual and collective effort,
establishes, maintains, and improves the ethical environment of the
work setting and conditions of employment that are conductive to
safe, quality health care.
◉ ANA Code of Ethics Provision 7.
Answer: The nurse, in all roles and settings, advances the profession
through research and scholarly inquiry, professional standards
development, and the generation of both nursing and health policy.
◉ ANA Code of Ethics Provision 8.
Answer: The nurse collaborates with other health professionals and
the public to protect human rights, promote health diplomacy, and
reduce health disparities.
◉ ANA Code of Ethics Provision 9.
, Answer: The profession of nursing, collectively through its
professional organizations, must articulate nursing values, maintain
the integrity of the profession, and integrate principles of social
justice into nursing and health policy.
◉ Advocate.
Answer: Speak for those who can't
Interprets and provides necessary education
Repeats and accepts patients decisions
Communicates to the health care provider
Must respect wishes even if you do not agree
◉ Delegator.
Answer: Never assign a job that you would not personally do
yourself
Entrusting and transferring responsibility of certain task to other
personnel
Must know the scope of those you are delegating tasks to
◉ Nightingale.
Answer: 1860
Founder of modern nursing
Crimean War
