Ethical Healthcare Practice Questions
1. A patient threatens to commit suicide and is placed in a different area of the unit so staff can watch them more closely.
What will be limited to protect this patient's safety?
a. Confidentiality
b. Privacy
c. Medication
d. Visitors - ANS -a. Confidentiality
\1. An elderly person who enjoys retirement, playing with grandchildren, and volunteering once a week is exhibiting which
virtue(s)?
a. Benignity
b. Benignity and simplicity
c. Simplicity and wisdom
d. Hilarity - ANS -b. Benignity and simplicity
\1. Consider a patient who is chronically ill and close to death. The treatments left to offer would not provide any
therapeutic benefit for him or her. How would you describe this situation?
a. Futile
b. Medically futile
c. Difficult
d. Unethical - ANS -b. Medically futile
\1. Elderly with what condition have been deemed the "new outcasts of society"?
a. Depression
b. Mental health issues
c. Dementia
d. Cancer - ANS -c. Dementia
\1. Goffman states that people who are stigmatized often have a turning point in their life. What does this mean for their
care?
, a. Nurses must ask about the turning point during assessment of potentially stigmatized patients
b. Nurses must constantly cultivate a humanistic environment to help mental patients grow while under care
c. People will have unique moments of sanity/insanity during this turning point
d. The turning point can always be identified and care can go from there - ANS -b. Nurses must constantly cultivate a
humanistic environment to help mental patients grow while under care
\1. How can nurses influence elders?
a. Care for them compassionately
b. Be empathetic toward them
c. Help them find meaning in their lives
d. Avoid them and not make them feel badly about being elderly - ANS -c. Help them find meaning in their lives
\1. In which activity is a nurse's influence most critical when caring for a mental health patient?
a. Administering medications
b. Providing spiritual and emotional care
c. Providing counseling as an APP
d. Consulting with physicians - ANS -b. Providing spiritual and emotional care
\1. On what was the pure autonomy standard based?
a. The fact that all humans are autonomous
b. A patient that went from competent to incompetent
c. The basic principle of autonomy
d. A patient that went from incompetent to competent - ANS -b. A patient that went from competent to incompetent
\1. The ability to come to a reasonable solution/decision is known as:
a. Intelligence
b. Common sense
c. Decision capacity
d. Competence - ANS -c. Decision capacity
\1. The current state of our media attention on youthful, affluence, beautiful individuals may actually increase what?
a. Elderly suicide
b. Elderly depression
c. Ageism
1. A patient threatens to commit suicide and is placed in a different area of the unit so staff can watch them more closely.
What will be limited to protect this patient's safety?
a. Confidentiality
b. Privacy
c. Medication
d. Visitors - ANS -a. Confidentiality
\1. An elderly person who enjoys retirement, playing with grandchildren, and volunteering once a week is exhibiting which
virtue(s)?
a. Benignity
b. Benignity and simplicity
c. Simplicity and wisdom
d. Hilarity - ANS -b. Benignity and simplicity
\1. Consider a patient who is chronically ill and close to death. The treatments left to offer would not provide any
therapeutic benefit for him or her. How would you describe this situation?
a. Futile
b. Medically futile
c. Difficult
d. Unethical - ANS -b. Medically futile
\1. Elderly with what condition have been deemed the "new outcasts of society"?
a. Depression
b. Mental health issues
c. Dementia
d. Cancer - ANS -c. Dementia
\1. Goffman states that people who are stigmatized often have a turning point in their life. What does this mean for their
care?
, a. Nurses must ask about the turning point during assessment of potentially stigmatized patients
b. Nurses must constantly cultivate a humanistic environment to help mental patients grow while under care
c. People will have unique moments of sanity/insanity during this turning point
d. The turning point can always be identified and care can go from there - ANS -b. Nurses must constantly cultivate a
humanistic environment to help mental patients grow while under care
\1. How can nurses influence elders?
a. Care for them compassionately
b. Be empathetic toward them
c. Help them find meaning in their lives
d. Avoid them and not make them feel badly about being elderly - ANS -c. Help them find meaning in their lives
\1. In which activity is a nurse's influence most critical when caring for a mental health patient?
a. Administering medications
b. Providing spiritual and emotional care
c. Providing counseling as an APP
d. Consulting with physicians - ANS -b. Providing spiritual and emotional care
\1. On what was the pure autonomy standard based?
a. The fact that all humans are autonomous
b. A patient that went from competent to incompetent
c. The basic principle of autonomy
d. A patient that went from incompetent to competent - ANS -b. A patient that went from competent to incompetent
\1. The ability to come to a reasonable solution/decision is known as:
a. Intelligence
b. Common sense
c. Decision capacity
d. Competence - ANS -c. Decision capacity
\1. The current state of our media attention on youthful, affluence, beautiful individuals may actually increase what?
a. Elderly suicide
b. Elderly depression
c. Ageism
