NURS 2300 LATEST EXAM 2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Implied Consent - ✔✔-Patient is brough to healthcare facility in a state that they are
unable to speak or give consent
-Assume consent is given until the person is able
✔✔Living Will - ✔✔-Patients wishes for healthcare decisions
-Can present legal & ethical dilemmas
✔✔Durable Power of Attorney - ✔✔-Identifies the person with legal authority to make
healthcare decisions for the patient in the event they are unable to on their own
✔✔Right to Refuse - ✔✔- Patient shave the right to change their minds or stop
treatment at any time for any reason, even if they had already consented
-Can be verbal or written
✔✔Restraints - ✔✔overriding a patients right to freedom of movement
-the least restrictive means must be used to ensure
-address underlying causes before using restraints
✔✔Seclusion - ✔✔Isolating a patient by physically restricting their ability to leave a
designated area
✔✔Confidentiality (HIPPA) - ✔✔HIPPA Regulations: fax, phone, computers, electronic
record keeping
✔✔Access to Care - ✔✔Affordable care act of 2010
-Affordable healthcare coverage
-Increase access to care
-Medicare for vulnerable populations
✔✔Safe Environment - ✔✔-Adequate staffing
-Infection prevention
-Risk reduction
-Employees who work within their scope of practice
✔✔Nursing Responsibility - ✔✔Advocacy, Duty to warn 3rd party, Report abuse &
neglect
✔✔Advocacy - ✔✔Nurses must advocate for proper care & treatment for patients
✔✔Duty to Warn - ✔✔Responsibility to warn others of potential harm
, ✔✔Reporting - ✔✔Any suspected abuse or neglect of vulnerable persons MUST be
reported through proper channels
✔✔Ethics - ✔✔The science of proper conduct and character (elements of right and
wrong)
✔✔Values - ✔✔Ideals or concepts that give meaning to one's life
✔✔Morality - ✔✔refers to a persons values
✔✔Ethical Principles - ✔✔A general guide to basic truth
✔✔Principles of Ethics - ✔✔Beneficence
nonmaleficence
autonomy
justice
✔✔ANA Code of Ethics - ✔✔-Written list of a professions values and standards of
conduct
-Framework for decision-making for the professions
✔✔ANA Provisions - ✔✔1. Compassion
2. Commitment
3. Advocacy
4. Authority & accountability
5. Duty of self and others
6. Promote ethical environment
7. Advancement of the profession
8. Professional collaboration
9. Integrity of the profession
✔✔Ethical Dilemma - ✔✔A situation where two moral principles conflict with one
another
✔✔Ethical Theories - ✔✔Systems of thought that attempt to explain how and why
humans should live
✔✔Ethical Issues - ✔✔1) protecting patient's rights & human dignity
2) respecting/ not respecting informed consent to treatment
3) providing care with possible risks to the health of the nurse
4) Using/not using chemical or physical restraints
5) Staffing patterns that limit patient access to nursing car
✔✔Ethics Committees - ✔✔-Hospitals and other agencies typically have an Ethics
Committee established
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Implied Consent - ✔✔-Patient is brough to healthcare facility in a state that they are
unable to speak or give consent
-Assume consent is given until the person is able
✔✔Living Will - ✔✔-Patients wishes for healthcare decisions
-Can present legal & ethical dilemmas
✔✔Durable Power of Attorney - ✔✔-Identifies the person with legal authority to make
healthcare decisions for the patient in the event they are unable to on their own
✔✔Right to Refuse - ✔✔- Patient shave the right to change their minds or stop
treatment at any time for any reason, even if they had already consented
-Can be verbal or written
✔✔Restraints - ✔✔overriding a patients right to freedom of movement
-the least restrictive means must be used to ensure
-address underlying causes before using restraints
✔✔Seclusion - ✔✔Isolating a patient by physically restricting their ability to leave a
designated area
✔✔Confidentiality (HIPPA) - ✔✔HIPPA Regulations: fax, phone, computers, electronic
record keeping
✔✔Access to Care - ✔✔Affordable care act of 2010
-Affordable healthcare coverage
-Increase access to care
-Medicare for vulnerable populations
✔✔Safe Environment - ✔✔-Adequate staffing
-Infection prevention
-Risk reduction
-Employees who work within their scope of practice
✔✔Nursing Responsibility - ✔✔Advocacy, Duty to warn 3rd party, Report abuse &
neglect
✔✔Advocacy - ✔✔Nurses must advocate for proper care & treatment for patients
✔✔Duty to Warn - ✔✔Responsibility to warn others of potential harm
, ✔✔Reporting - ✔✔Any suspected abuse or neglect of vulnerable persons MUST be
reported through proper channels
✔✔Ethics - ✔✔The science of proper conduct and character (elements of right and
wrong)
✔✔Values - ✔✔Ideals or concepts that give meaning to one's life
✔✔Morality - ✔✔refers to a persons values
✔✔Ethical Principles - ✔✔A general guide to basic truth
✔✔Principles of Ethics - ✔✔Beneficence
nonmaleficence
autonomy
justice
✔✔ANA Code of Ethics - ✔✔-Written list of a professions values and standards of
conduct
-Framework for decision-making for the professions
✔✔ANA Provisions - ✔✔1. Compassion
2. Commitment
3. Advocacy
4. Authority & accountability
5. Duty of self and others
6. Promote ethical environment
7. Advancement of the profession
8. Professional collaboration
9. Integrity of the profession
✔✔Ethical Dilemma - ✔✔A situation where two moral principles conflict with one
another
✔✔Ethical Theories - ✔✔Systems of thought that attempt to explain how and why
humans should live
✔✔Ethical Issues - ✔✔1) protecting patient's rights & human dignity
2) respecting/ not respecting informed consent to treatment
3) providing care with possible risks to the health of the nurse
4) Using/not using chemical or physical restraints
5) Staffing patterns that limit patient access to nursing car
✔✔Ethics Committees - ✔✔-Hospitals and other agencies typically have an Ethics
Committee established
