Nursing Ethics Exam 1 2026 Questions
and Answers
Who is Tinslee Lewis? - Correct answer-An infant undergoing treatment at
mother's discretion, though providers say the treatment is causing her more pain.
Mother claims she should be moved, no hospital will accept her.
Macro concept of ethics - Correct answer-branch of philosophy/theology in which
one reflects on morality; the formal study of morality form a wide range of
perspectives including semantic, logical, analytic, epistemological, normative, and
applied.
Definition of ethics - Correct answer-the study or examination of morality through
a wide variety of different approaches
Scope of nursing ethics - Correct answer-the examination of ethical and bioethical
issues from the perspective on nursing theory and practice, which in turn rest on
the nursing concepts of: person, culture, care, health, healing, environment, and
nursing
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,3 ethical considerations - Correct answer-1. Character: what sort of person one
ought to be
2. Conduct: how one should act
3. Duties and obligations: patients, other health professionals, the profession, the
wider public, and global humanity
Stench test for determining ethical issues - Correct answer-Does the action: feel
uncomfortable, go against the law, oppose the COE, oppose your own moral code?
Normative ethics - Correct answer-inquiries about how humans should behave,
what ought to be done in certain situations, what type of character one should have
Common morality - Correct answer-beliefs and behaviors that members of a
society generally agree about, including rules of obligation, common moral ideals,
and character traits. Also informs specific moralities such as the ANA Code of
Ethics, which prescribes beliefs and behaviors for nurses in the US
Virtue ethics - Correct answer-one's character as a person, how to be "excellent"
Virtues - Correct answer-habitual, routined traits that contribute to character
Deontology - Correct answer-study of duty. Kant: humans are ethically bound to
act from a sense of duty
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, Categorical imperative - Correct answer-universal, absolute, unconditional rules
that guide moral duties. Does not consider consequences of one's actions
Utilitarianism - Correct answer-actions are judged by usefulness of consequences.
Promote the greatest good and produce the least amount of harm
Morals - Correct answer-specific beliefs, behaviors, and ways of being derived
from doing ethics
Immoral - Correct answer-wrong. Example: murder
Amoral - Correct answer-lack of moral sense. Example: murder without remorse
Nonmoral - Correct answer-no moral value. Example: cereal or toast?
Values - Correct answer-evaluative judgments about what one believes is good or
desirable
Professional values - Correct answer-guide nurses in how they ought to behave
(ANA COE)
Embedded ethics - Correct answer-unreflected moral beliefs, intuitions held
without considered argument, reason, or evidence (this does not make them wrong
or mistaken)
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and Answers
Who is Tinslee Lewis? - Correct answer-An infant undergoing treatment at
mother's discretion, though providers say the treatment is causing her more pain.
Mother claims she should be moved, no hospital will accept her.
Macro concept of ethics - Correct answer-branch of philosophy/theology in which
one reflects on morality; the formal study of morality form a wide range of
perspectives including semantic, logical, analytic, epistemological, normative, and
applied.
Definition of ethics - Correct answer-the study or examination of morality through
a wide variety of different approaches
Scope of nursing ethics - Correct answer-the examination of ethical and bioethical
issues from the perspective on nursing theory and practice, which in turn rest on
the nursing concepts of: person, culture, care, health, healing, environment, and
nursing
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,3 ethical considerations - Correct answer-1. Character: what sort of person one
ought to be
2. Conduct: how one should act
3. Duties and obligations: patients, other health professionals, the profession, the
wider public, and global humanity
Stench test for determining ethical issues - Correct answer-Does the action: feel
uncomfortable, go against the law, oppose the COE, oppose your own moral code?
Normative ethics - Correct answer-inquiries about how humans should behave,
what ought to be done in certain situations, what type of character one should have
Common morality - Correct answer-beliefs and behaviors that members of a
society generally agree about, including rules of obligation, common moral ideals,
and character traits. Also informs specific moralities such as the ANA Code of
Ethics, which prescribes beliefs and behaviors for nurses in the US
Virtue ethics - Correct answer-one's character as a person, how to be "excellent"
Virtues - Correct answer-habitual, routined traits that contribute to character
Deontology - Correct answer-study of duty. Kant: humans are ethically bound to
act from a sense of duty
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, Categorical imperative - Correct answer-universal, absolute, unconditional rules
that guide moral duties. Does not consider consequences of one's actions
Utilitarianism - Correct answer-actions are judged by usefulness of consequences.
Promote the greatest good and produce the least amount of harm
Morals - Correct answer-specific beliefs, behaviors, and ways of being derived
from doing ethics
Immoral - Correct answer-wrong. Example: murder
Amoral - Correct answer-lack of moral sense. Example: murder without remorse
Nonmoral - Correct answer-no moral value. Example: cereal or toast?
Values - Correct answer-evaluative judgments about what one believes is good or
desirable
Professional values - Correct answer-guide nurses in how they ought to behave
(ANA COE)
Embedded ethics - Correct answer-unreflected moral beliefs, intuitions held
without considered argument, reason, or evidence (this does not make them wrong
or mistaken)
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