PVC – Test 5, 2026 – Study guide and practice material
The licensed practical/vocational nurse is caring for a client at the end stages of terminal cancer.
Which is the best way to involve the family with the client's care? - correct answer ✔✔ Involve
the family in providing comfort measures for the loved one
The licensed practical/vocational nurse's neighbor and friend stops the nurse as he is walking in
to his house after work. She says she heard that another neighbor across the street was in the
hospital where the nurse works with a heart attack and is not doing very well. She asks the
nurse if that is true. The nurse knows that the neighbor across the street is in cardiac care and
has a poor prognosis. Which is the best response to the friend's question? - correct answer ✔✔
"I'm sorry but I can't share confidential client information."
During his last shift, a nurse realized that he made a medication error by administering a
medication to the wrong client. Which nurse's subsequent action best demonstrates
accountability? - correct answer ✔✔ Writing up an incident report and taking action to review
correct medication administration
The licensed practical/vocational nurse was working on a neurological unit. A client with
Parkinson's disease (PD) was informed of a new treatment, which required
autologous stem cell therapy to increase the levels of dopamine-producing cells to lessen the
symptoms of PD. The client and family asked the nurse if this presents an ethical dilemma
because they don't want to use human fetal stem cells. How should the nurse respond? -
correct answer ✔✔ "The term 'autologous' means from the same individual, so the procedure
involves using the client's stem cells and not cells from a human fetus."
A licensed practical/vocational nurse has been employed in a hospital short procedure unit for 3
years. The hospital was recently sold and the new owners have hired a doctor who will be
performing outpatient elective abortions. The nurse's religious convictions forbid the nurse to
be involved in any way in elective abortion procedures. What should the nurse do? - correct
answer ✔✔ Submit a resignation and look for another job
, The licensed practical/vocational nurse was caring for a client in a nursing home who has end-
stage cancer and recently had a debilitating stroke (brain attack). On several occasions, nurses
reported the client stated he wished he was dead. One night the client arrested. The client was
a full code. When the licensed practical/vocational nurse found him, she called a code blue. The
staff took their time to respond and
even longer to call "911." Which exemplifies the third step in the process of ethical decision
making for this situation? - correct answer ✔✔ Is a slow code acceptable when the client stated
he wished he was dead, or should he have made the choice known and secured an order for
"do
not resuscitate," and since he did not, the nurses are bound to resuscitate quickly?
The licensed practical/vocational nurse is working with a team of nurses from the hospital to
secure funding for free mammograms for the homeless population. The licensed
practical/vocational nurse posed this potential ethical issue: What happens if a homeless
woman has a positive mammogram, but travels from center to center and is hard to find, or has
no insurance or way to pay for follow-up, or treatments for breast cancer? Is it appropriate to
diagnose but not communicate the results, or not be able to treat a life-threatening disease?
Which is the best action for the team to take next? - correct answer ✔✔ Create an ethical plan
of action and a detailed follow-up plan to communicate the results to women who travel from
center to center
Create an ethical plan of action and a detailed follow up plan to communicate the results to
women who travel from center to center - correct answer ✔✔ Religious beliefs: sanctity of life;
no abortion; personal values—follow teachings of the church and provide the best quality of life
for an
individual; personal moral principles—it is not right to take a life of an unborn child; laws: not
illegal for abortion; society's beliefs—both right to life and right to choose.
A middle-aged man has just died in a motorcycle accident and his wife has been informed by
the care team. According to Dr. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, what is the first stage of grief that the
client's wife will likely experience? - correct answer ✔✔ Denial
The licensed practical/vocational nurse is caring for a client at the end stages of terminal cancer.
Which is the best way to involve the family with the client's care? - correct answer ✔✔ Involve
the family in providing comfort measures for the loved one
The licensed practical/vocational nurse's neighbor and friend stops the nurse as he is walking in
to his house after work. She says she heard that another neighbor across the street was in the
hospital where the nurse works with a heart attack and is not doing very well. She asks the
nurse if that is true. The nurse knows that the neighbor across the street is in cardiac care and
has a poor prognosis. Which is the best response to the friend's question? - correct answer ✔✔
"I'm sorry but I can't share confidential client information."
During his last shift, a nurse realized that he made a medication error by administering a
medication to the wrong client. Which nurse's subsequent action best demonstrates
accountability? - correct answer ✔✔ Writing up an incident report and taking action to review
correct medication administration
The licensed practical/vocational nurse was working on a neurological unit. A client with
Parkinson's disease (PD) was informed of a new treatment, which required
autologous stem cell therapy to increase the levels of dopamine-producing cells to lessen the
symptoms of PD. The client and family asked the nurse if this presents an ethical dilemma
because they don't want to use human fetal stem cells. How should the nurse respond? -
correct answer ✔✔ "The term 'autologous' means from the same individual, so the procedure
involves using the client's stem cells and not cells from a human fetus."
A licensed practical/vocational nurse has been employed in a hospital short procedure unit for 3
years. The hospital was recently sold and the new owners have hired a doctor who will be
performing outpatient elective abortions. The nurse's religious convictions forbid the nurse to
be involved in any way in elective abortion procedures. What should the nurse do? - correct
answer ✔✔ Submit a resignation and look for another job
, The licensed practical/vocational nurse was caring for a client in a nursing home who has end-
stage cancer and recently had a debilitating stroke (brain attack). On several occasions, nurses
reported the client stated he wished he was dead. One night the client arrested. The client was
a full code. When the licensed practical/vocational nurse found him, she called a code blue. The
staff took their time to respond and
even longer to call "911." Which exemplifies the third step in the process of ethical decision
making for this situation? - correct answer ✔✔ Is a slow code acceptable when the client stated
he wished he was dead, or should he have made the choice known and secured an order for
"do
not resuscitate," and since he did not, the nurses are bound to resuscitate quickly?
The licensed practical/vocational nurse is working with a team of nurses from the hospital to
secure funding for free mammograms for the homeless population. The licensed
practical/vocational nurse posed this potential ethical issue: What happens if a homeless
woman has a positive mammogram, but travels from center to center and is hard to find, or has
no insurance or way to pay for follow-up, or treatments for breast cancer? Is it appropriate to
diagnose but not communicate the results, or not be able to treat a life-threatening disease?
Which is the best action for the team to take next? - correct answer ✔✔ Create an ethical plan
of action and a detailed follow-up plan to communicate the results to women who travel from
center to center
Create an ethical plan of action and a detailed follow up plan to communicate the results to
women who travel from center to center - correct answer ✔✔ Religious beliefs: sanctity of life;
no abortion; personal values—follow teachings of the church and provide the best quality of life
for an
individual; personal moral principles—it is not right to take a life of an unborn child; laws: not
illegal for abortion; society's beliefs—both right to life and right to choose.
A middle-aged man has just died in a motorcycle accident and his wife has been informed by
the care team. According to Dr. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, what is the first stage of grief that the
client's wife will likely experience? - correct answer ✔✔ Denial
