Test Bank for Ethics and Issues in Contemporary Nursing, 3rd Edition – Margaret A. Burkhardt, Nancy Walton & Alvita Nathaniel | Latest 2025/2026 Verified Edition

TEST BANK RF




Ethics and Issues in Contemporary Nursing 3rd Edition
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF




by Margaret A. Burkhardt, Nancy Walton, All Chapters 1 - 20
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF

,TABLE OF CONTENTS RF RF RF




Part I: Guides for Principled Behavior
RF RF RF RF RF




RF 1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF




Nursing
RF RF




2. Ethical Theory
RF RF RF




3. Ethical Principles
RF RF




Part II: Developing Principled Behavior
RF RF RF RF RF




4. Values Clarification
RF RF RF




5. Values Development
RF RF RF




6. Ethics and Professional Nursing
RF RF RF RF RF




7. Ethical Decision Making
RF RF RF




Part III: Principled Behavior in the Professional Domain
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF




8. Legal Issues
RF RF RF




9. Professional Relationship Issues
RF RF RF RF




10. Practice Issues Related to Technology
RF RF RF RF RF RF




11. Practice Issues Related to Patient Self-Determination
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF




12. Scholarship Issues
RF RF




Part IV: Global Issues that Interface with Nursing Practice
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF




13. Global Consciousness in the Twenty-First Century
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF




14. Health Policy Issues
RF RF RF RF




15. Economic Issues
RF RF RF




16. Social Issues
RF RF RF




17. Gender Issues
RF RF RF




18. Transcultural and Spiritual Issues
RF RF RF RF




Part V: The Power to Make a Difference
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF




19. Empowerment for Nurses
RF RF RF RF




20. Facilitating Patient Empowerment
RF RF RF

,RF 1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF




Nursing
RF RF




Multiple Choice
RF




1. For which of the following is empathy a motive?
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


a. meeting the needs of others RF RF RF RF


b. moral reasoning and action
RF RF RF


c. becoming a nurse RF RF


d. determining right from wrong RF RF RF


ANSWER: b R F




2. Which of the following is an example of social need as an ethical foundation for nursing?
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


a. Nurses must determine the health and social needs of society.
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


b. Nursing finds its origin, purpose, and meaning within the context of perceived social need.
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


c. Theories of social need in sociology are utilized by nursing scholars, many of whom view
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


them as conceptual frameworks for nursing practice.
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


d. Social need determines the boundaries of the ethical principles of distributive justice,
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


beneficence, and non-maleficence.
RF RF RF


ANSWER: R F b

3. What is the most critical factor that influences nursing practice?
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


a. the traditional role of healers
RF RF RF RF


b. the role of women in society
RF RF RF RF RF


c. the religious and spiritual aspects of health care
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


d. the introduction of male nurses into the profession
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


ANSWER: b R F




4. Why does the social status of women affect the status of the nursing profession?
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


a. Nursing has traditionally been a profession of women.
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


b. Throughout history, nurses have been afforded higher social status.
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


c. Women of higher social status rarely become nurses.
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


d. Women are more skilled than men at nurturing others.
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


ANSWER: R F a

5. What historical influences affected nursing as a moral discipline?
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


a. technology
b. society
c. spirituality
d. oppression
ANSWER: R F c



6. What is the term that relates to knowledge gained through observation and experience?
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


a. empirical
b. Cartesian philosophy RF

, c. values
d. moral thought RF


ANSWER: a R F




7. Which of the following is an example of the significance of Nursing during the Middle Ages ?
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


a. Religious nursing orders and church-sanctioned secular nursing orders offered the only
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


legitimate avenues for women wishing to become nurses.
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


b. Increasing respect was given to nursing and midwifery, as nurses began to practise autonomously.
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


c. Healing arts in Denmark and Greece were performed in sacred ceremonies by priests, priestesses,
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


or shamans.
RF RF


d. Most nurses were women of high social status seeking ways to legitimize their position and status.
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


ANSWER: R F a

8. What does the term empirical relate to?
RF RF RF RF RF RF


a. serving God and thy neighbour the best way one can
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


b. knowledge gained through observation and experience
RF RF RF RF RF


c. healing through religious intervention, chanting, and praying
RF RF RF RF RF RF


d. the enforcement of religious doctrine related to the status of women in society
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


ANSWER: b R F




9. When was the “Dark Period of Nursing,” when convalescent patients, prostitutes, prisoners, and
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


drunkards provided hospital nursing care?
RF RF RF RF RF


a. during the Reformation RF RF


b. during the Crusades RF RF


c. during the Middle Ages RF RF RF


d. during the early Christian era
RF RF RF RF


ANSWER: R F a

10. Which of the following had the greatest influence on nursing traditions in Canada?
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


a. Britain
b. indigenous persons RF


c. France
d. Germany
ANSWER: c R F




11. Which of the following had the greatest influence on establishing the first hospital in the New World?
RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF RF


a. Marie Rollet Hebert RF RF


b. Marguerite d’Youville RF


c. Jeanne Mance RF


d. Renee Descartes RF


ANSWER: R F c