TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I: Guides for Principled Behavior
1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of
Nursing
,2. Ethical Theory
3. Ethical Principles
Part II: Developing Principled Behavior
4. Values Clarification
5. Values Development
6. Ethics and Professional Nursing
7. Ethical Decision Making
Part III: Principled Behavior in the Professional Domain
8. Legal Issues
9. Professional Relationship Issues
10. Practice Issues Related to Technology
11. Practice Issues Related to Patient Self-Determination
12. Scholarship Issues
Part IV: Global Issues that Interface with Nursing Practice
13. Global Consciousness in the Twenty-First Century
14. Health Policy Issues
15. Economic Issues
16. Social Issues
17. Gender Issues
18. Transcultural and Spiritual Issues
Part V: The Power to Make a Difference
19. Empowerment for Nurses
20. Facilitating Patient Empowerment
,1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of
Nursing
Multiple Choice
1. For which of the following is empathy a motive?
a. meeting the needs of others
b. moral reasoning and action
c. becoming a nurse
d. determining right from wrong
ANSWER: b
2. Which of the following is an example of social need as an ethical foundation for nursing?
a. Nurses must determine the health and social needs of society.
b. Nursing finds its origin, purpose, and meaning within the context of perceived social need.
c. Theories of social need in sociology are utilized by nursing scholars, many of whom view them as
conceptual frameworks for nursing practice.
d. Social need determines the boundaries of the ethical principles of distributive justice, beneficence, and
non-maleficence.
ANSWER: b
3. What is the most critical factor that influences nursing practice?
a. the traditional role of healers
b. the role of women in society
c. the religious and spiritual aspects of health care
d. the introduction of male nurses into the profession
ANSWER: b
4. Why does the social status of women affect the status of the nursing profession?
a. Nursing has traditionally been a profession of women.
b. Throughout history, nurses have been afforded higher social status.
c. Women of higher social status rarely become nurses.
d. Women are more skilled than men at nurturing others.
ANSWER: a
5. What historical influences affected nursing as a moral discipline?
a. technology
b. society
c. spirituality
d. oppression
ANSWER: c
6. What is the term that relates to knowledge gained through observation and experience?
a. empirical
b. Cartesian philosophy
, c. values
d. moral thought
ANSWER: a
7. Which of the following is an example of the significance of Nursing during the Middle Ages ?
a. Religious nursing orders and church-sanctioned secular nursing orders offered the only legitimate
avenues for women wishing to become nurses.
b. Increasing respect was given to nursing and midwifery, as nurses began to practise autonomously.
c. Healing arts in Denmark and Greece were performed in sacred ceremonies by priests, priestesses, or
shamans.
d. Most nurses were women of high social status seeking ways to legitimize their position and status.
ANSWER: a
8. What does the term empirical relate to?
a. serving God and thy neighbour the best way one can
b. knowledge gained through observation and experience
c. healing through religious intervention, chanting, and praying
d. the enforcement of religious doctrine related to the status of women in society
ANSWER: b
9. When was the “Dark Period of Nursing,” when convalescent patients, prostitutes, prisoners, and drunkards
provided hospital nursing care?
a. during the Reformation
b. during the Crusades
c. during the Middle Ages
d. during the early Christian era
ANSWER: a
10. Which of the following had the greatest influence on nursing traditions in Canada?
a. Britain
b. indigenous persons
c. France
d. Germany
ANSWER: c
11. Which of the following had the greatest influence on establishing the first hospital in the New World?
a. Marie Rollet Hebert
b. Marguerite d’Youville
c. Jeanne Mance
d. Renee Descartes
ANSWER: c
Part I: Guides for Principled Behavior
1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of
Nursing
,2. Ethical Theory
3. Ethical Principles
Part II: Developing Principled Behavior
4. Values Clarification
5. Values Development
6. Ethics and Professional Nursing
7. Ethical Decision Making
Part III: Principled Behavior in the Professional Domain
8. Legal Issues
9. Professional Relationship Issues
10. Practice Issues Related to Technology
11. Practice Issues Related to Patient Self-Determination
12. Scholarship Issues
Part IV: Global Issues that Interface with Nursing Practice
13. Global Consciousness in the Twenty-First Century
14. Health Policy Issues
15. Economic Issues
16. Social Issues
17. Gender Issues
18. Transcultural and Spiritual Issues
Part V: The Power to Make a Difference
19. Empowerment for Nurses
20. Facilitating Patient Empowerment
,1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of
Nursing
Multiple Choice
1. For which of the following is empathy a motive?
a. meeting the needs of others
b. moral reasoning and action
c. becoming a nurse
d. determining right from wrong
ANSWER: b
2. Which of the following is an example of social need as an ethical foundation for nursing?
a. Nurses must determine the health and social needs of society.
b. Nursing finds its origin, purpose, and meaning within the context of perceived social need.
c. Theories of social need in sociology are utilized by nursing scholars, many of whom view them as
conceptual frameworks for nursing practice.
d. Social need determines the boundaries of the ethical principles of distributive justice, beneficence, and
non-maleficence.
ANSWER: b
3. What is the most critical factor that influences nursing practice?
a. the traditional role of healers
b. the role of women in society
c. the religious and spiritual aspects of health care
d. the introduction of male nurses into the profession
ANSWER: b
4. Why does the social status of women affect the status of the nursing profession?
a. Nursing has traditionally been a profession of women.
b. Throughout history, nurses have been afforded higher social status.
c. Women of higher social status rarely become nurses.
d. Women are more skilled than men at nurturing others.
ANSWER: a
5. What historical influences affected nursing as a moral discipline?
a. technology
b. society
c. spirituality
d. oppression
ANSWER: c
6. What is the term that relates to knowledge gained through observation and experience?
a. empirical
b. Cartesian philosophy
, c. values
d. moral thought
ANSWER: a
7. Which of the following is an example of the significance of Nursing during the Middle Ages ?
a. Religious nursing orders and church-sanctioned secular nursing orders offered the only legitimate
avenues for women wishing to become nurses.
b. Increasing respect was given to nursing and midwifery, as nurses began to practise autonomously.
c. Healing arts in Denmark and Greece were performed in sacred ceremonies by priests, priestesses, or
shamans.
d. Most nurses were women of high social status seeking ways to legitimize their position and status.
ANSWER: a
8. What does the term empirical relate to?
a. serving God and thy neighbour the best way one can
b. knowledge gained through observation and experience
c. healing through religious intervention, chanting, and praying
d. the enforcement of religious doctrine related to the status of women in society
ANSWER: b
9. When was the “Dark Period of Nursing,” when convalescent patients, prostitutes, prisoners, and drunkards
provided hospital nursing care?
a. during the Reformation
b. during the Crusades
c. during the Middle Ages
d. during the early Christian era
ANSWER: a
10. Which of the following had the greatest influence on nursing traditions in Canada?
a. Britain
b. indigenous persons
c. France
d. Germany
ANSWER: c
11. Which of the following had the greatest influence on establishing the first hospital in the New World?
a. Marie Rollet Hebert
b. Marguerite d’Youville
c. Jeanne Mance
d. Renee Descartes
ANSWER: c
