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Prepare for nursing ethics coursework with a comprehensive study resource for Ethics and Issues in Contemporary Nursing, 3rd Canadian Edition by Burkhardt. Review key concepts including ethical principles, ethical decision-making, professional responsibilities, patient rights, autonomy, informed consent, confidentiality, advocacy, healthcare dilemmas, nursing standards, and contemporary issues within the Canadian healthcare context. Ideal for chapter review, quizzes, assignments, examinations, and comprehensive nursing ethics study preparation.

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TEST BANK
Ethics and Issues in Contemporary Nursing
3rd Edition by Burkhardt, Walton,




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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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




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

Multiple Choice

1. For which of the following is empathy a motive?
a. meeting the needs of others
b. moral reasoning and action
c. becoming a nurse
d. determining right from wrong
ANS: b

2. Which of the following is an example of social need as an ethical foundation for nursing?
a. Nurses must determine the health and social needs of society.
b. Nursing finds its origin, purpose, and meaning within the context of perceived social need.
c. Theories of social need in sociology are utilized by nursing scholars, many of whom
view them as conceptual frameworks for nursing practice.
d. Social need determines the boundaries of the ethical principles of distributive justice,
beneficence, and non-maleficence.
ANS: b

3. What is the most critical factor that influences nursing practice?
a. the traditional role of healers
b. the role of women in society
c. the religious and spiritual aspects of health care
d. the introduction of male nurses into the profession
ANS: b

4. Why does the social status of women affect the status of the nursing profession?
a. Nursing has traditionally been a profession of women.
b. Throughout history, nurses have been afforded higher social status.
c. Women of higher social status rarely become nurses.
d. Women are more skilled than men at nurturing others.
ANS: a

5. What historical influences affected nursing as a moral discipline?
a. technology
b. society
c. spirituality
d. oppression
ANS: c



6. What is the term that relates to knowledge gained through observation and experience?
a. empirical
b. Cartesian philosophy
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c. values
d. moral thought
ANS: a

7. Which of the following is an example of the significance of Nursing during the Middle Ages ?
a. Religious nursing orders and church-sanctioned secular nursing orders offered the only
legitimate avenues for women wishing to become nurses.
b. Increasing respect was given to nursing and midwifery, as nurses began to practise
autonomously.
c. Healing arts in Denmark and Greece were performed in sacred ceremonies by priests,
priestesses, or shamans.
d. Most nurses were women of high social status seeking ways to legitimize their position and
status.
ANS: a

8. What does the term empirical relate to?
a. serving God and thy neighbour the best way one can
b. knowledge gained through observation and experience
c. healing through religious intervention, chanting, and praying
d. the enforcement of religious doctrine related to the status of women in society
ANS: b

9. When was the “Dark Period of Nursing,” when convalescent patients, prostitutes, prisoners,
and drunkards provided hospital nursing care?
a. during the Reformation
b. during the Crusades
c. during the Middle Ages
d. during the early Christian era
ANS: a

10. Which of the following had the greatest influence on nursing traditions in Canada?
a. Britain
b. indigenous persons
c. France
d. Germany
ANS: c

11. Which of the following had the greatest influence on establishing the first hospital in the New
World?
a. Marie Rollet Hebert
b. Marguerite d’Youville
c. Jeanne Mance
d. Renee Descartes
ANS: c




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