NURS 1013 Final Exam with All Correct
Answers 2026-2027 Set.
Values - Answer Personal beliefs about truth and worth of behaviors, thoughts, objects.
Beliefs - Answer Interpretations or conclusions that one accepts as true.
Value Systems - Answer Ranking values based on importance. Construct for personal code of
conduct.
Development of Personal and Professional Values - Answer Observations and modeling
behaviors and social traditions. Cultural, ethnic, religious norms.
Value Clarification - Answer Process by which people come to understand their own values
and value system. To clarify values, participate in the process of valuing: choosing prizing acting.
Clarifying Clients' Values - Answer Nurses should strive to understand client decisions and
behaviors. Processes: Examine possible consequences of choices. List alternatives with client
benefit and values in mind. Understand clients may choose freely and should feel good about
choice. Affirm choice. Act on choice. Act with pattern.
Will Your Values Influence Your Care? - Answer How will you care for clients who: Are injured
while under the influence of drugs or alcohol? Have a STD? Are addicted to drugs? Are desiring
an abortion?
Altruism - Answer Concern for the well care of others.
Autonomy - Answer The right to self-determination.
Human Dignity - Answer Treat everyone with respect.
Integrity - Answer What you do when no one is looking.
Social Justice - Answer Upholds moral, legal and human rights.
The Concept of Ethics - Answer The study or examination of morality through a variety of
different approaches. Standards of right and wrong as it relates to conduct and human
flourishing. Ethical behavior is learned beginning in childhood. Tied to morality.
, Utilitarian - Answer The consequences of an action determine whether the action was ethical
or unethical. Did the action promote the "greater good?"
Deontological - Answer A rule determines whether or not an action is right or wrong,
regardless of the consequences of the action.
Nursing Ethics - Answer Subset of bioethics. Formal study of ethical issues in nursing:
Beginning and end-of-life care. Patient confidentiality. Incompetent or illegal practices of
colleagues.
How Does the Nurse Promote the Principles of Ethics? - Answer Autonomy - make your own
choices. Nonmaleficence - do no harm / avoid doing harm. Beneficence - for the benefit of the
patient. Justice - given each their duty / treat fairly. Fidelity - to keep your word / promise.
What is a Nursing Code of Ethics? - Answer Succinct statement of nurses' obligations and
duties. Guide for a profession's membership, social contract with the public that it serves.
Nonnegotiable Standards Box 6-2 - Student Handbook.
Ethical Dilemma - Answer Two or more clear moral principles apply but support mutually
inconsistent courses of action.
Moral Distress - Answer When the nurse knows the right thing to do but either personal or
institutional factors make it difficult to follow the correct course of action.
Examples of Ethical Problems - Answer Paternalism - acting without patient consent to secure
good or prevent harm. Deception - nurses deceive a person for a perceived benefit.
Confidentiality & Privacy. Allocation of scarce nursing resources. Valid consent or refusal.
Informed Consent or Refusal - Answer Informed, or voluntary consent, is needed for:
Admission. Specialized diagnostic or treatment procedure. Any experimental treatments or
procedures. Consent must be: Written. Specific to the procedure to be performed. Signed by
the patient or person legally responsible for the patient. Exception - nurse witness.
Nursing Codes of Ethics - Answer International Council of Nurses (ICN). ANA Code of Ethics.
NSNA Code of Academic and Clinical Conduct. ANA Standards of Nursing Practice and
Professional Performance.
Professional and Legal Regulation of Nursing Practice - Answer Nurse Practice Acts: Standards
of Practice and Professional Performance. Laws established in each state to regulate the practice
Answers 2026-2027 Set.
Values - Answer Personal beliefs about truth and worth of behaviors, thoughts, objects.
Beliefs - Answer Interpretations or conclusions that one accepts as true.
Value Systems - Answer Ranking values based on importance. Construct for personal code of
conduct.
Development of Personal and Professional Values - Answer Observations and modeling
behaviors and social traditions. Cultural, ethnic, religious norms.
Value Clarification - Answer Process by which people come to understand their own values
and value system. To clarify values, participate in the process of valuing: choosing prizing acting.
Clarifying Clients' Values - Answer Nurses should strive to understand client decisions and
behaviors. Processes: Examine possible consequences of choices. List alternatives with client
benefit and values in mind. Understand clients may choose freely and should feel good about
choice. Affirm choice. Act on choice. Act with pattern.
Will Your Values Influence Your Care? - Answer How will you care for clients who: Are injured
while under the influence of drugs or alcohol? Have a STD? Are addicted to drugs? Are desiring
an abortion?
Altruism - Answer Concern for the well care of others.
Autonomy - Answer The right to self-determination.
Human Dignity - Answer Treat everyone with respect.
Integrity - Answer What you do when no one is looking.
Social Justice - Answer Upholds moral, legal and human rights.
The Concept of Ethics - Answer The study or examination of morality through a variety of
different approaches. Standards of right and wrong as it relates to conduct and human
flourishing. Ethical behavior is learned beginning in childhood. Tied to morality.
, Utilitarian - Answer The consequences of an action determine whether the action was ethical
or unethical. Did the action promote the "greater good?"
Deontological - Answer A rule determines whether or not an action is right or wrong,
regardless of the consequences of the action.
Nursing Ethics - Answer Subset of bioethics. Formal study of ethical issues in nursing:
Beginning and end-of-life care. Patient confidentiality. Incompetent or illegal practices of
colleagues.
How Does the Nurse Promote the Principles of Ethics? - Answer Autonomy - make your own
choices. Nonmaleficence - do no harm / avoid doing harm. Beneficence - for the benefit of the
patient. Justice - given each their duty / treat fairly. Fidelity - to keep your word / promise.
What is a Nursing Code of Ethics? - Answer Succinct statement of nurses' obligations and
duties. Guide for a profession's membership, social contract with the public that it serves.
Nonnegotiable Standards Box 6-2 - Student Handbook.
Ethical Dilemma - Answer Two or more clear moral principles apply but support mutually
inconsistent courses of action.
Moral Distress - Answer When the nurse knows the right thing to do but either personal or
institutional factors make it difficult to follow the correct course of action.
Examples of Ethical Problems - Answer Paternalism - acting without patient consent to secure
good or prevent harm. Deception - nurses deceive a person for a perceived benefit.
Confidentiality & Privacy. Allocation of scarce nursing resources. Valid consent or refusal.
Informed Consent or Refusal - Answer Informed, or voluntary consent, is needed for:
Admission. Specialized diagnostic or treatment procedure. Any experimental treatments or
procedures. Consent must be: Written. Specific to the procedure to be performed. Signed by
the patient or person legally responsible for the patient. Exception - nurse witness.
Nursing Codes of Ethics - Answer International Council of Nurses (ICN). ANA Code of Ethics.
NSNA Code of Academic and Clinical Conduct. ANA Standards of Nursing Practice and
Professional Performance.
Professional and Legal Regulation of Nursing Practice - Answer Nurse Practice Acts: Standards
of Practice and Professional Performance. Laws established in each state to regulate the practice
