NUR 301 EXAM 1 2026/2027 – STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Criteria are used to define registered nursing as a profession - correct answer ✔✔-specified body of
unique knowledge
-a code of ethics
-formal education and training
-credentialing system to ensure confidence
-specialization to the profession for considerable amount of time
-Control and authority over education and training
-altruistic service to community or society
The nursing aims - correct answer ✔✔To promote health
To prevent illness
To restore health
To facilitate coping with disability or death
What is discipline - correct answer ✔✔A branch of knowledge organized by theories and methodologies
based on multiple world views of the phenomenon of concern
Values - correct answer ✔✔set of beliefs that are meaningful in life and guide one's behavior
Ethics - correct answer ✔✔Systems of beliefs that are meaningful in life and guide one's behavior
How values are developed? - correct answer ✔✔Values are not innate but are formed and learned
throughout life from the environment, family, culture, and other contexts and experiences
Value transmission - correct answer ✔✔1. Role modeling from parents, peers, significant others and
authority figures
2. Moralizing- taught historically by authority figures or organizations
3. Laissez-faire- individuals discover on their own without external guidance
4. Rewards and punishments- from authority figures
5. Responsible-choice- individuals discover
Ethical dilemma - correct answer ✔✔an individual is being forced to choose between two or more
undesirable alternatives or difficult choices; "right" decision is not clear
Ethical distress - correct answer ✔✔knowing the right thing to do but not being unable to act because of
personal or institutional constraints
Deontological - correct answer ✔✔actions are right or wrong, regardless of consequences, based on
reasoning (duty-based, right based, case by case)
Rights-based reasoning - correct answer ✔✔some actions are due to a person (individual has basic
rights, claims, or entitlements). Rights are different from needs, wants, and desires; right to participate in
decision making
Criteria are used to define registered nursing as a profession - correct answer ✔✔-specified body of
unique knowledge
-a code of ethics
-formal education and training
-credentialing system to ensure confidence
-specialization to the profession for considerable amount of time
-Control and authority over education and training
-altruistic service to community or society
The nursing aims - correct answer ✔✔To promote health
To prevent illness
To restore health
To facilitate coping with disability or death
What is discipline - correct answer ✔✔A branch of knowledge organized by theories and methodologies
based on multiple world views of the phenomenon of concern
Values - correct answer ✔✔set of beliefs that are meaningful in life and guide one's behavior
Ethics - correct answer ✔✔Systems of beliefs that are meaningful in life and guide one's behavior
How values are developed? - correct answer ✔✔Values are not innate but are formed and learned
throughout life from the environment, family, culture, and other contexts and experiences
Value transmission - correct answer ✔✔1. Role modeling from parents, peers, significant others and
authority figures
2. Moralizing- taught historically by authority figures or organizations
3. Laissez-faire- individuals discover on their own without external guidance
4. Rewards and punishments- from authority figures
5. Responsible-choice- individuals discover
Ethical dilemma - correct answer ✔✔an individual is being forced to choose between two or more
undesirable alternatives or difficult choices; "right" decision is not clear
Ethical distress - correct answer ✔✔knowing the right thing to do but not being unable to act because of
personal or institutional constraints
Deontological - correct answer ✔✔actions are right or wrong, regardless of consequences, based on
reasoning (duty-based, right based, case by case)
Rights-based reasoning - correct answer ✔✔some actions are due to a person (individual has basic
rights, claims, or entitlements). Rights are different from needs, wants, and desires; right to participate in
decision making
