NURS 242- Exam 1 questions with
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Nurse witnesses another nurse providing care without prosper hand hygiene and reports this to
the charge nurse. The charge nurse is friends with the other and refuses to take action. This is
an example of: - correct answer ✔✔Moral distress
A nurse manager who makes decisions based on what will benefit the majority of the nurse
managers subordinates is using what type of ethical framework for decision making? - correct
answer ✔✔Utilitarianism
Which isn't an element of ethical decision making: beneficence, utility, paternalism, pragmatism
- correct answer ✔✔Pragmatism
Nancy is a loyal and trustworthy nurse that performs the duties that are expected of her. Which
principle of ethical reasoning is Nancy displaying? - correct answer ✔✔Fidelity
The nurse in a unit is caring for several clients. To distribute nursing care the nurse used the
principle of triage due to the limited availability of resources. The nurse is promoting which
ethical principle? - correct answer ✔✔Justice
Nursing ethics provides the standards for professional behavior and is the study of principles of
right and wrong for nurses. The standard states the duties and obligations of the nurse should
include which of of the following: individual, community, client, all of them? - correct answer
✔✔All of them
When does a moral issue become an ethical dilemma? - correct answer ✔✔When forced to
choose between two or more undesirable alternatives.
,The nurse manager didn't hire sally for the assistant manager job. The nurse manager informed
sally that she was a great fit but an internal candidate was selected instead. The real reason
sally wasn't hired was because her drug test was positive. Which of the principles of ethical
reasoning didn't the nurse follow? - correct answer ✔✔Veracity
A client is advised by the doctor to undergo chemo. An informed consent is not yet signed. The
client requests info related to chemo and the drugs that will be given to him. The nurse explains
the side effects and meds. The nurse answered all questions even though the client chose not to
undergo chemo. The nurse uses which principle of ethical reasoning? - correct answer
✔✔Veracity
Nurse Bobby avoids deliberate harm and risk of harm during his performance of nursing actions.
The nurse is promoting which ethical principle? - correct answer ✔✔Nonmaleficence
What does provision one state? - correct answer ✔✔Nurse practices with compassion and
respect for inherent dignity, worth and unique attributes of every person
Patient has right to decide for themselves- autonomy to accept or refuse or terminate care (ie
no more feeding tube)
What does provision 2 state? - correct answer ✔✔Nurse's primary commitment is to the
patient, whether an individual, family, group, community or population
What does provision 3 state? - correct answer ✔✔Nurse promotes, advocates for and protects
rights, health and safety of patient
What does provision 4 state? - correct answer ✔✔Nurse has the authority, accountability and
responsibility for nursing practice, makes decisions and takes action consistent with the
obligation to promote health and provide optimal care
What does provision 5 state? - correct answer ✔✔Nurse owes same duties to self as others,
including the responsibility to promote health and safety, preserve wholeness of character and
, integrity, maintain competency and continue personal and professional growth (ie CE every 2
yrs)
What does provision 7 state? - correct answer ✔✔The nurse in all roles and setting advances
the profession thru research and scholarly inquiry, professional standards of development and
the generation of both nursing and health policy
What does provision 8 state? - correct answer ✔✔Nurse collaborated with other health
professionals and the public to protect human rights, promote health diplomacy and reduce
health disparities
What are examples of vulnerable subjects? - correct answer ✔✔Kids, fetuses and human
embryos, pregnant, cognitively impaired, prisoners, terminally ill, elderly, undeserved
population, economically disadvantage people, traumatized and comatose pt
What is conscientious objection? - correct answer ✔✔Enable patient to refuse participation in
an activity that violates personal values or beliefs (work where you agree with the vision)
What does provision 9 state? - correct answer ✔✔The profession of nursing collectively through
its professional organizations must articulate nursing values, maintain the integrity of the
profession and integrate principals or social justice into nursing and health policy
Ethics are ________, _______ and _______ - correct answer ✔✔Unapologetic, aspirational and
non- negotiable
What is the doctrine of double effect? - correct answer ✔✔Nurse may give meds with the intent
s/s of dying even though secondary impact may decrease respiration's, and perhaps hasten
death- the nurses actions don't cause the death, the terminal illness causes the death
What does interdisciplinary mean?
verified answers graded A+
Nurse witnesses another nurse providing care without prosper hand hygiene and reports this to
the charge nurse. The charge nurse is friends with the other and refuses to take action. This is
an example of: - correct answer ✔✔Moral distress
A nurse manager who makes decisions based on what will benefit the majority of the nurse
managers subordinates is using what type of ethical framework for decision making? - correct
answer ✔✔Utilitarianism
Which isn't an element of ethical decision making: beneficence, utility, paternalism, pragmatism
- correct answer ✔✔Pragmatism
Nancy is a loyal and trustworthy nurse that performs the duties that are expected of her. Which
principle of ethical reasoning is Nancy displaying? - correct answer ✔✔Fidelity
The nurse in a unit is caring for several clients. To distribute nursing care the nurse used the
principle of triage due to the limited availability of resources. The nurse is promoting which
ethical principle? - correct answer ✔✔Justice
Nursing ethics provides the standards for professional behavior and is the study of principles of
right and wrong for nurses. The standard states the duties and obligations of the nurse should
include which of of the following: individual, community, client, all of them? - correct answer
✔✔All of them
When does a moral issue become an ethical dilemma? - correct answer ✔✔When forced to
choose between two or more undesirable alternatives.
,The nurse manager didn't hire sally for the assistant manager job. The nurse manager informed
sally that she was a great fit but an internal candidate was selected instead. The real reason
sally wasn't hired was because her drug test was positive. Which of the principles of ethical
reasoning didn't the nurse follow? - correct answer ✔✔Veracity
A client is advised by the doctor to undergo chemo. An informed consent is not yet signed. The
client requests info related to chemo and the drugs that will be given to him. The nurse explains
the side effects and meds. The nurse answered all questions even though the client chose not to
undergo chemo. The nurse uses which principle of ethical reasoning? - correct answer
✔✔Veracity
Nurse Bobby avoids deliberate harm and risk of harm during his performance of nursing actions.
The nurse is promoting which ethical principle? - correct answer ✔✔Nonmaleficence
What does provision one state? - correct answer ✔✔Nurse practices with compassion and
respect for inherent dignity, worth and unique attributes of every person
Patient has right to decide for themselves- autonomy to accept or refuse or terminate care (ie
no more feeding tube)
What does provision 2 state? - correct answer ✔✔Nurse's primary commitment is to the
patient, whether an individual, family, group, community or population
What does provision 3 state? - correct answer ✔✔Nurse promotes, advocates for and protects
rights, health and safety of patient
What does provision 4 state? - correct answer ✔✔Nurse has the authority, accountability and
responsibility for nursing practice, makes decisions and takes action consistent with the
obligation to promote health and provide optimal care
What does provision 5 state? - correct answer ✔✔Nurse owes same duties to self as others,
including the responsibility to promote health and safety, preserve wholeness of character and
, integrity, maintain competency and continue personal and professional growth (ie CE every 2
yrs)
What does provision 7 state? - correct answer ✔✔The nurse in all roles and setting advances
the profession thru research and scholarly inquiry, professional standards of development and
the generation of both nursing and health policy
What does provision 8 state? - correct answer ✔✔Nurse collaborated with other health
professionals and the public to protect human rights, promote health diplomacy and reduce
health disparities
What are examples of vulnerable subjects? - correct answer ✔✔Kids, fetuses and human
embryos, pregnant, cognitively impaired, prisoners, terminally ill, elderly, undeserved
population, economically disadvantage people, traumatized and comatose pt
What is conscientious objection? - correct answer ✔✔Enable patient to refuse participation in
an activity that violates personal values or beliefs (work where you agree with the vision)
What does provision 9 state? - correct answer ✔✔The profession of nursing collectively through
its professional organizations must articulate nursing values, maintain the integrity of the
profession and integrate principals or social justice into nursing and health policy
Ethics are ________, _______ and _______ - correct answer ✔✔Unapologetic, aspirational and
non- negotiable
What is the doctrine of double effect? - correct answer ✔✔Nurse may give meds with the intent
s/s of dying even though secondary impact may decrease respiration's, and perhaps hasten
death- the nurses actions don't cause the death, the terminal illness causes the death
What does interdisciplinary mean?
