CEN Professional Issues Review: Emergency Nursing Ethics, Leadership, Legal Standards &
Certification Prep
Ethics - correct answer ✔✔Principles, professional standards, and behavior
Autonomy - correct answer ✔✔Right to make one's own choices and have those choices
respected.
Beneficence - correct answer ✔✔Duty to help others by providing care to improve health or
quality of life.
Nonmaleficence - correct answer ✔✔Duty to do no harm and not risk harm to others.
Justice - correct answer ✔✔To be fair and impartial.
Cultural Considerations - correct answer ✔✔Cultural assessment:
- Healthcare benefits
- Decision-making process
Cultural competence:
- Become aware of own bias
- Identify culturally diverse groups in community
- Identify core cultural issues and practices
- Develop trust with empathy and respect
- Communicate with the patient and family regarding needs and wishes.
Communication:
, - Language barriers
- Determine patient's preferred language
- Translate with a professional interpreter; not family members
Family presence:
- Variations in definition of family
- Support policies and guidelines to promote presence
Grief and Loss:
- Cultural differences and preferences may be more significant with grief and loss.
- Obtain appropriate support for family
Evidence-Based Practice - correct answer ✔✔Definition:
- Conscious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the
care of patients.
- Based on clinical experience and research.
Research into practice:
- Problem identification: ID the problem that will require research.
- Literature review: Critiquing and summarizing other studies.
- Research question or hypothesis
- Research question: a statement that identifies the phenomenon to be studied (eg. Does years
of experience influence triage decisions made by emergency RNs?)
Certification Prep
Ethics - correct answer ✔✔Principles, professional standards, and behavior
Autonomy - correct answer ✔✔Right to make one's own choices and have those choices
respected.
Beneficence - correct answer ✔✔Duty to help others by providing care to improve health or
quality of life.
Nonmaleficence - correct answer ✔✔Duty to do no harm and not risk harm to others.
Justice - correct answer ✔✔To be fair and impartial.
Cultural Considerations - correct answer ✔✔Cultural assessment:
- Healthcare benefits
- Decision-making process
Cultural competence:
- Become aware of own bias
- Identify culturally diverse groups in community
- Identify core cultural issues and practices
- Develop trust with empathy and respect
- Communicate with the patient and family regarding needs and wishes.
Communication:
, - Language barriers
- Determine patient's preferred language
- Translate with a professional interpreter; not family members
Family presence:
- Variations in definition of family
- Support policies and guidelines to promote presence
Grief and Loss:
- Cultural differences and preferences may be more significant with grief and loss.
- Obtain appropriate support for family
Evidence-Based Practice - correct answer ✔✔Definition:
- Conscious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the
care of patients.
- Based on clinical experience and research.
Research into practice:
- Problem identification: ID the problem that will require research.
- Literature review: Critiquing and summarizing other studies.
- Research question or hypothesis
- Research question: a statement that identifies the phenomenon to be studied (eg. Does years
of experience influence triage decisions made by emergency RNs?)
