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This comprehensive test bank accompanies Ethics and Issues in Contemporary Nursing, 3rd Canadian Edition by Margaret A. Burkhardt and Nancy Walton. Designed to reinforce key concepts and assess understanding, it includes multiple-choice questions, answers, and rationales for all 20 chapters of the textbook. Covering a wide range of topics—from ethical theories and principles to legal issues, social determinants of health, and professional nursing challenges—this resource is ideal for students and educators alike. It serves as a valuable tool for exam preparation, self-assessment, and deepening knowledge of contemporary nursing ethics and practice in the Canadian context.

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TEST BANK
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Ethics and Issues in Contemporary Nursing 3rd Edition
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by Margaret A. Burkhardt, Nancy Walton, All Chapters 1 - 20
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,LE OF CONTENTS
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Part I: Guides for Principled Behavior
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1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of Nursing
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2. Ethical Theory
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3. Ethical Principles
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Part II: Developing Principled Behavior
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4. Values Clarification
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5. Values Development
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6. Ethics and Professional Nursing
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7. Ethical Decision Making
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Part III: Principled Behavior in the Professional Domain
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8. Legal Issues
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9. Professional Relationship Issues
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10. Practice Issues Related to Technology
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11. Practice Issues Related to Patient Self-Determination
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12. Scholarship Issues
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Part IV: Global Issues that Interface with Nursing Practice
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13. Global Consciousness in the Twenty-First Century
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14. Health Policy Issues
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15. Economic Issues
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16. Social Issues
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17. Gender Issues
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18. Transcultural and Spiritual Issues
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Part V: The Power to Make a Difference
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19. Empowerment for Nurses
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20. Facilitating Patient Empowerment
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,1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of Nursing
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MultipleuChoice

1. Foruwhichuofutheufollowinguisuempathyuaumotive?
a. meetingutheuneedsuofuothers
b. moralureasoninguanduaction
c. becominguaunurse
d. determiningurightufromuwrong
ANSWER:u b

2. Whichuofutheufollowinguisuanuexampleuofusocialuneeduasuanuethicalufoundationuforunursing?
a. Nursesumustudetermineutheuhealthuandusocialuneedsuofusociety.
b. Nursingufindsuitsuorigin,upurpose,uandumeaninguwithinutheucontextuofuperceivedusocialuneed.
c. Theoriesuofusocialuneeduinusociologyuareuutilizedubyunursinguscholars,umanyuofuwhomuviewuthemuasu
conceptualuframeworksuforunursingupractice.
d. Socialuneedudeterminesutheuboundariesuofutheuethicaluprinciplesuofudistributiveujustice,ubeneficenc
e,uandunon-maleficence.
ANSWER:u b

3. Whatuisutheumostucriticalufactoruthatuinfluencesunursingupractice?
a. theutraditionaluroleuofuhealers
b. theuroleuofuwomenuinusociety
c. theureligiousuanduspiritualuaspectsuofuhealthucare
d. theuintroductionuofumaleunursesuintoutheuprofession
ANSWER:u b

4. Whyudoesutheusocialustatusuofuwomenuaffectutheustatusuofutheunursinguprofession?
a. Nursinguhasutraditionallyubeenuauprofessionuofuwomen.
b. Throughoutuhistory,unursesuhaveubeenuaffordeduhigherusocialustatus.
c. Womenuofuhigherusocialustatusurarelyubecomeunurses.
d. Womenuareumoreuskilleduthanumenuatunurturinguothers.
ANSWER:u a

5. Whatuhistoricaluinfluencesuaffectedunursinguasuaumoraludiscipline?
a. technology
b. society
c. spirituality
d. oppression
ANSWER:u c




6. Whatuisutheutermuthaturelatesutouknowledgeugaineduthroughuobservationuanduexperience?
a. empirical
b. Cartesianuphilosophy

, c. values
d. moraluthought
ANSWER:u a

7. WhichuofutheufollowinguisuanuexampleuofutheusignificanceuofuNursinguduringutheuMiddleuAgesu?
a. Religiousunursinguordersuanduchurch-
sanctionedusecularunursinguordersuofferedutheuonlyulegitimateuavenuesuforuwomenuwishingutoubec
omeunurses.
b. Increasingurespectuwasugivenutounursinguandumidwifery,uasunursesubeganutoupractiseuautonomously.
c. HealinguartsuinuDenmarkuanduGreeceuwereuperformeduinusacreduceremoniesubyupriests,upriestesses,u
orushamans.
d. Mostunursesuwereuwomenuofuhighusocialustatususeekinguwaysutoulegitimizeutheirupositionuandustatus.
ANSWER:u a

8. Whatudoesutheutermuempiricalurelateuto?
a. servinguGoduanduthyuneighbourutheubestuwayuoneucan
b. knowledgeugaineduthroughuobservationuanduexperience
c. healinguthroughureligiousuintervention,uchanting,uandupraying
d. theuenforcementuofureligiousudoctrineurelatedutoutheustatusuofuwomenuinusociety
ANSWER:u b

9. Whenuwasutheu“DarkuPerioduofuNursing,”uwhenuconvalescentupatients,uprostitutes,uprisoners,uandudrunkar
dsuprovideduhospitalunursingucare?
a. duringutheuReformation
b. duringutheuCrusades
c. duringutheuMiddleuAges
d. duringutheuearlyuChristianuera
ANSWER:u a

10. WhichuofutheufollowinguhadutheugreatestuinfluenceuonunursingutraditionsuinuCanada?
a. Britain
b. indigenousupersons
c. France
d. Germany
ANSWER:u c

11. WhichuofutheufollowinguhadutheugreatestuinfluenceuonuestablishingutheufirstuhospitaluinutheuNewuWorld?
a. MarieuRolletuHebert
b. Margueriteud’Youville
c. JeanneuMance
d. ReneeuDescartes
ANSWER:u c

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