2025
PSYCHIATRIC NURSING
EXAM 1
Morris Academia
, Name:___________________________________________________________________ Date:____________
1. A nurse knows that this part of philosophy which deals with systematic approaches to questions of morality is:
A. nursing morals C. nursing ethics
B. morals D. ethics
2. Nurses understanding of ethico-legal responsibility will guide his/her nursing practice. The principle that governs right
and proper conducts of a person regarding life, biology and health profession is referred to as:
A. morality B. religion C. values D. bioethics
3. The final decision on your ethical actions are most influenced by your:
A. Ethical knowledge
B. Conscience
C. Norms of society
D. Religious beliefs
4. The best course of action when faced with ethical difficulties:
B. Discuss with your lawyer
C. Assess ethical problem in question
D. Reflect on your conscience
E. Refer to a spiritual counselor
5. Health care issues often become an ethical dilemma because of which of the following?
A. decision must be made quickly often under a stressful condition
B. decision must be made based on individual systems
C. the choices involved do not appear to be clearly right or wrong
D. a client’s legal rights co-exist with health profession
6. As the nurse in the prenatal clinic, you are able to protect patients’ right to every consideration of his privacy by observing
which of the following?
A. in doing physical examination, the nurse provides by applying the needed legging or drape and a room of enclosed
area
B. the nurse accepts the patient’s desire not to take experimental drugs and a regimen
C. the nurse encourages patients to participate planning her care
D. the drug does not impose any treatment if the client refuses to
7. Informed consent is necessary for the treatment for involuntary clients. When this cannot be obtained, permission may be
taken from the:
A. social worker B. doctor C. next kin or guardian D. chief nurse
8. A nurse who supports a patient and family’s need to make decisions that is right for them is practicing which of the
following ethical principles:
A. autonomy B. confidentiality C. privacy D. Truthfulness
9. In anticipation that a mother might refuse breathing treatment, one of her children signed the consent in her behalf. The
nurse explains that his mother is rational in her thinking and which of the following clients’ rights must be regarded?
A. right to refuse treatment C. right to informed consent
B. right to privacy D. right of habeas consent
10. It is unethical to tell one’s friends and family members data about the patient because doing so is a violation of patient’s
rights to:
A. Least restrictive environment C. confidentiality
B. informed consent D. civil liberty
11. You informed the patient about his right which include the following EXCEPT:
A. Right to expect reasonable continuity of care
B. Right to consent to or decline to participate in research studies or experiments
C. Right to obtain information about another patient
D. Right to expect that the records about his care will be treated as confidential.
12. A mother who is pregnant and has ovarian cancer has to undergo surgery to treat the cancer. In the process the fetus
died. The doctrine that justifies the death of the fetus is:
A. justice B. autonomy C. exception of the rule D. double effect
13. Bioethics in caring for children capitalizes on some important principles. You are expected to know these by heart
because nurses care for children as well as adults. What is the principle to hold on when caring for children who have been
PSYCHIATRIC NURSING
EXAM 1
Morris Academia
, Name:___________________________________________________________________ Date:____________
1. A nurse knows that this part of philosophy which deals with systematic approaches to questions of morality is:
A. nursing morals C. nursing ethics
B. morals D. ethics
2. Nurses understanding of ethico-legal responsibility will guide his/her nursing practice. The principle that governs right
and proper conducts of a person regarding life, biology and health profession is referred to as:
A. morality B. religion C. values D. bioethics
3. The final decision on your ethical actions are most influenced by your:
A. Ethical knowledge
B. Conscience
C. Norms of society
D. Religious beliefs
4. The best course of action when faced with ethical difficulties:
B. Discuss with your lawyer
C. Assess ethical problem in question
D. Reflect on your conscience
E. Refer to a spiritual counselor
5. Health care issues often become an ethical dilemma because of which of the following?
A. decision must be made quickly often under a stressful condition
B. decision must be made based on individual systems
C. the choices involved do not appear to be clearly right or wrong
D. a client’s legal rights co-exist with health profession
6. As the nurse in the prenatal clinic, you are able to protect patients’ right to every consideration of his privacy by observing
which of the following?
A. in doing physical examination, the nurse provides by applying the needed legging or drape and a room of enclosed
area
B. the nurse accepts the patient’s desire not to take experimental drugs and a regimen
C. the nurse encourages patients to participate planning her care
D. the drug does not impose any treatment if the client refuses to
7. Informed consent is necessary for the treatment for involuntary clients. When this cannot be obtained, permission may be
taken from the:
A. social worker B. doctor C. next kin or guardian D. chief nurse
8. A nurse who supports a patient and family’s need to make decisions that is right for them is practicing which of the
following ethical principles:
A. autonomy B. confidentiality C. privacy D. Truthfulness
9. In anticipation that a mother might refuse breathing treatment, one of her children signed the consent in her behalf. The
nurse explains that his mother is rational in her thinking and which of the following clients’ rights must be regarded?
A. right to refuse treatment C. right to informed consent
B. right to privacy D. right of habeas consent
10. It is unethical to tell one’s friends and family members data about the patient because doing so is a violation of patient’s
rights to:
A. Least restrictive environment C. confidentiality
B. informed consent D. civil liberty
11. You informed the patient about his right which include the following EXCEPT:
A. Right to expect reasonable continuity of care
B. Right to consent to or decline to participate in research studies or experiments
C. Right to obtain information about another patient
D. Right to expect that the records about his care will be treated as confidential.
12. A mother who is pregnant and has ovarian cancer has to undergo surgery to treat the cancer. In the process the fetus
died. The doctrine that justifies the death of the fetus is:
A. justice B. autonomy C. exception of the rule D. double effect
13. Bioethics in caring for children capitalizes on some important principles. You are expected to know these by heart
because nurses care for children as well as adults. What is the principle to hold on when caring for children who have been
