Test Bank for Ethical & Legal Issues in
Canadian Nursing (Updated 2026) | Solved
Questions and Answers | 100% Accurate
• Purpose of Competencies for entry-level RN Practice: CNO -
✓✓Outlines competencies such as knowledge, skill, ability, and
judgment required for safe and ethical nursing practice
• How do the Professional Standards from the CNO guide professional
behaviour? -✓✓Outlines expectations and provides examples
• What are values? -✓✓Someones own personal believes
Examples: honesty, accountability
• Morals -✓✓Morals are what a society expects
Morals guide right from wrong
• What is the code of ethics? -✓✓Formal statement of profession's ideals
and values
• 7 Primary Values of the CNO Code of Ethics -✓✓Providing safe,
compassionate, competent, and ethical care
Promoting health and well-being
Promoting and respecting informed decision making
Preserving dignity
Maintaining privacy and confidentiality
Promoting justice
Being accountable
• Utilitarianism -✓✓"greatest good for the greatest number"
• Deontology -✓✓defines actions as right or wrong
, • feminist argument -✓✓traditional theories, based on the male
perspective, are problematic for women.
women undergo moral development differently than men.
women's views are marginalized or unrecognized.
Social and political oppression of women is a major concern
Goal is to eliminate the subordination of woman
• Ethics of care -✓✓Evolved from feminine ethics.
Values "feelings, emotions, empathy and care".
Ensures all dimensions of a situation are addressed
Starting point is the person's circumstance or personal story
Aims to understand the context and complexity of relationships.
Recognizes the unique needs of each person.
• Social Justice -✓✓Focus is on equity, opportunity and privilege within
a society
Grounds advocacy that influences the well-being of persons within a
society.
Theories focus on responsibilities towards those most disadvantaged
Guides policy and action
Principle of Equal Opportunity
• Autonomy -✓✓Respect for an individuals right to make their own
decisions
• Beneficence -✓✓The quality of doing good
• Fidelity -✓✓The quality of doing good
• Justice -✓✓Fair and equal treatment for all
• Non-maleficence -✓✓Never doing harm to anyone
Canadian Nursing (Updated 2026) | Solved
Questions and Answers | 100% Accurate
• Purpose of Competencies for entry-level RN Practice: CNO -
✓✓Outlines competencies such as knowledge, skill, ability, and
judgment required for safe and ethical nursing practice
• How do the Professional Standards from the CNO guide professional
behaviour? -✓✓Outlines expectations and provides examples
• What are values? -✓✓Someones own personal believes
Examples: honesty, accountability
• Morals -✓✓Morals are what a society expects
Morals guide right from wrong
• What is the code of ethics? -✓✓Formal statement of profession's ideals
and values
• 7 Primary Values of the CNO Code of Ethics -✓✓Providing safe,
compassionate, competent, and ethical care
Promoting health and well-being
Promoting and respecting informed decision making
Preserving dignity
Maintaining privacy and confidentiality
Promoting justice
Being accountable
• Utilitarianism -✓✓"greatest good for the greatest number"
• Deontology -✓✓defines actions as right or wrong
, • feminist argument -✓✓traditional theories, based on the male
perspective, are problematic for women.
women undergo moral development differently than men.
women's views are marginalized or unrecognized.
Social and political oppression of women is a major concern
Goal is to eliminate the subordination of woman
• Ethics of care -✓✓Evolved from feminine ethics.
Values "feelings, emotions, empathy and care".
Ensures all dimensions of a situation are addressed
Starting point is the person's circumstance or personal story
Aims to understand the context and complexity of relationships.
Recognizes the unique needs of each person.
• Social Justice -✓✓Focus is on equity, opportunity and privilege within
a society
Grounds advocacy that influences the well-being of persons within a
society.
Theories focus on responsibilities towards those most disadvantaged
Guides policy and action
Principle of Equal Opportunity
• Autonomy -✓✓Respect for an individuals right to make their own
decisions
• Beneficence -✓✓The quality of doing good
• Fidelity -✓✓The quality of doing good
• Justice -✓✓Fair and equal treatment for all
• Non-maleficence -✓✓Never doing harm to anyone
