questions and answers 2024\2025
A+ Grade
Autonomy
- correct answer The ethical tenet that the physician has the responsibility to respect patients' choices
about their own healthcare.
Right to choose, self freedom
Confidentiality
- correct answer protection of privacy without diminishing access to quality care
A legal and ethical concept that establishes the healthcare provider's responsibility for protecting health
records and other personal and private information from unauthorized use or disclosure
Veracity
- correct answer Adherence to the truth; truthfulness
Fidelity
- correct answer Faithfulness; loyalty
Nonmaleficence
- correct answer Avoid causing harm or pain as much as possible when giving treatments. Principle of
avoiding harm
Beneficence
- correct answer The ethical tenet that the physician has a responsibility to act in the patient's best
interest.
,Watson Theory
- correct answer Human caring Theory- caring to meet human needs
Watson sees caring as central to nursing and only able to be demonstrated interpersonally. Caring
depends on certain factors that satisfy human needs. Effective caring promotes health and growth.
Show unconditional acceptance.
Use a holistic treatment approach—one that includes treating the mind, soul, and spirit as well as the
body).
Spend uninterrupted time with patients - something Watson calls "caring moments."
Promote health through knowledge and intervention
Leininger's Theory
- correct answer Transcultural nursing focuses on the analyses of different cultures in the world
regarding their caring behavior, nursing care, health-illness values, with the goal of developing a
scientific and humanistic body of knowledge from which to derive culture-specific and culture universal
nursing care practices.
Madeleine Leininger involves knowing and understanding different cultures with respect to nursing and
health-illness caring practices, beliefs and values with the goal to provide meaningful and efficacious
nursing care services to people according to their culture beliefs.
Orems Theory
- correct answer patient should do what they can independently, we ASSIT and SUPPORT patient where
they have trouble
Health Promotion Model
- correct answer Extends the health belief model to include determinants of health promoting behaviour
and includes self-efficacy theory
Pender
Transtheoretical Model
- correct answer six stages in the change process: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action,
maintenance, and termination
Health Belief
- correct answer likelihood of engaging in health-promoting behavior
, -Suggests that an individual's decision to adopt healthy behaviors is based upon their perception of
susceptibility to an illness (& severity of illness
Basic Human Needs
- correct answer The fundamental needs of people for adequate food, shelter, health care, sanitation,
and education. Meeting such needs may be thought of as both a moral imperative and a form of
investment in "human capital" essential for economic growth.
Holistic Health Model
- correct answer Attempts to create conditions that promote optimal health, and consider clients the
ultimate expert on their own health.
Self-Determination and Advance Directives
- correct answer The Patient Self-Determination Act guarantees that all competent adults have the right
to complete an Advance Directive (living will) to state whether or not they want treatment, how they
want to treat end-of-life choices, and who they want to make their decisions
The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA)
- correct answer - an attempt to ensure that people's rights were honored
- to improve communication related to end-of-life care issues
- to improve preferences among individuals, health care providers and proxies
Advanced Directives
- correct answer - a way for people to ensure that the treatment and care matches their wishes when
they become incapacitated
Loved Ones
- correct answer potentially to relieve
them the strain as they strive to
make the "right" treatment choices
for a friend or relative
Healthcare Professionals
- correct answer will be guided in their decision making