NURSING ETHICS COMPREHENSIVE ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Negligence - ✔✔Absence of due care , being careless
Failure to act in a manner demonstrating the care and knowledge any prudent individual
would.
Medication errors
Patient falls
Use of restraints
Equipment injuries
✔✔Malpractice - ✔✔professional negligence
Nursing responsibilities include actions taken and those omitted
4 key elements:
1. Duty: established relationship between patient and nurse
2. Breach: duty if failure to perform the duty in a reasonable, prudent manner
3. Harm: has occurred, this not have to be physical injury
4. The breach of duty was the proximate cause of the harm. The occurrence of the
breach
✔✔liable - ✔✔legally responsible
✔✔Deposition - ✔✔a witness's testimony given under oath
✔✔Abandonment of care - ✔✔Wrongful termination of providing patient care
✔✔Assault - ✔✔threat or attempt to injure
✔✔Battery - ✔✔unlawful touching of another person without consent
✔✔Defamation - ✔✔the action of damaging the good reputation of someone; slander or
libel.
,✔✔Libel - ✔✔A written defamation of a person's character, reputation, business, or
property rights.
✔✔Slander - ✔✔spoken defamation
✔✔tort - ✔✔Type of civil law that involves wrongs against a person or property
✔✔Accountability - ✔✔Willingness to take credit and blame for actions.
✔✔liability - ✔✔legal responsibility
✔✔Nursing Liability - ✔✔Breaches of standard care, practice, monitoring and
communication
✔✔Patient Rights - ✔✔1. Access to health care without any prejudice
2. Treatment with respect and dignity at all times
3. Privacy and confidentiality
4. Personal safety
5. Complete information about one's own condition and treatment
✔✔Minors under the age of 18 - ✔✔-marriage
-court approved emancipation
-living apart from parents or guardian for at least 60 days and independent of prenatal
support
-service in the armed forces
-treatment for STD infections
-drug or alcohol abuse
-sexual assault
-family planning
✔✔Avoid a lawsuit - ✔✔provide competent, compassionate care, communicate openly
for therapeutic relationship, nurse- patient relationship must be based on trust
✔✔Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) - ✔✔A federal law that mandates that every
individual has the right to make decisions regarding medical care, including the right to
refuse treatment and the right-to-die
✔✔Ethical Principles - ✔✔1. Respect for persons
2. Autonomy
3. Beneficence
4. Nonmaleficence
5. Justice
✔✔Code of Ethics for Nurses - ✔✔NFLPN developed a code for LPN/LVN
, ✔✔1. What are the four elements required for a claim of malpractice?
a. Duty, causation, damages, defense
b. Liability, negligence, duty, damages
c. Breach of duty, duty, liability, negligence
d. Duty, breach of duty, causation, damages. - ✔✔Duty, breach of duty, causation,
damages
✔✔1. Which of the four elements of malpractice occurs when the jury or judge decides
the punishment?
a. Duty
b. Breach of duty
c. Causation
d. Damages - ✔✔d. Damages
✔✔1. Which of the following is not a strategy used to decrease a nurse's chance of
being involved in a malpractice case?
a. Generosity
b. Documentation
c. Improved communication
d. Assess and monitor the patient - ✔✔
✔✔✔✔10. The LPN/LVN is reviewing the patient's medical record. The nurse notes the
presence of an advance directive. The nurse recognizes that the purpose of this
documentation is to:
A. Help every person exercise the right to die with dignity
B. Encourage a person to determine how he or she will die
C. Allow a patient to exercise the right of autonomy
D. Provide a means to prevent medical treatment - ✔✔B. Encourage a person to
determine how he or she will die
✔✔11. The nurse knows that all patients have the right to nursing interventions
regardless of their race, religion, or gender. The ethical principle that best describes this
concept is:
A. Nonmaleficence
B. Justice
C. Autonomy
D. Beneficence - ✔✔B. Justice
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Negligence - ✔✔Absence of due care , being careless
Failure to act in a manner demonstrating the care and knowledge any prudent individual
would.
Medication errors
Patient falls
Use of restraints
Equipment injuries
✔✔Malpractice - ✔✔professional negligence
Nursing responsibilities include actions taken and those omitted
4 key elements:
1. Duty: established relationship between patient and nurse
2. Breach: duty if failure to perform the duty in a reasonable, prudent manner
3. Harm: has occurred, this not have to be physical injury
4. The breach of duty was the proximate cause of the harm. The occurrence of the
breach
✔✔liable - ✔✔legally responsible
✔✔Deposition - ✔✔a witness's testimony given under oath
✔✔Abandonment of care - ✔✔Wrongful termination of providing patient care
✔✔Assault - ✔✔threat or attempt to injure
✔✔Battery - ✔✔unlawful touching of another person without consent
✔✔Defamation - ✔✔the action of damaging the good reputation of someone; slander or
libel.
,✔✔Libel - ✔✔A written defamation of a person's character, reputation, business, or
property rights.
✔✔Slander - ✔✔spoken defamation
✔✔tort - ✔✔Type of civil law that involves wrongs against a person or property
✔✔Accountability - ✔✔Willingness to take credit and blame for actions.
✔✔liability - ✔✔legal responsibility
✔✔Nursing Liability - ✔✔Breaches of standard care, practice, monitoring and
communication
✔✔Patient Rights - ✔✔1. Access to health care without any prejudice
2. Treatment with respect and dignity at all times
3. Privacy and confidentiality
4. Personal safety
5. Complete information about one's own condition and treatment
✔✔Minors under the age of 18 - ✔✔-marriage
-court approved emancipation
-living apart from parents or guardian for at least 60 days and independent of prenatal
support
-service in the armed forces
-treatment for STD infections
-drug or alcohol abuse
-sexual assault
-family planning
✔✔Avoid a lawsuit - ✔✔provide competent, compassionate care, communicate openly
for therapeutic relationship, nurse- patient relationship must be based on trust
✔✔Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) - ✔✔A federal law that mandates that every
individual has the right to make decisions regarding medical care, including the right to
refuse treatment and the right-to-die
✔✔Ethical Principles - ✔✔1. Respect for persons
2. Autonomy
3. Beneficence
4. Nonmaleficence
5. Justice
✔✔Code of Ethics for Nurses - ✔✔NFLPN developed a code for LPN/LVN
, ✔✔1. What are the four elements required for a claim of malpractice?
a. Duty, causation, damages, defense
b. Liability, negligence, duty, damages
c. Breach of duty, duty, liability, negligence
d. Duty, breach of duty, causation, damages. - ✔✔Duty, breach of duty, causation,
damages
✔✔1. Which of the four elements of malpractice occurs when the jury or judge decides
the punishment?
a. Duty
b. Breach of duty
c. Causation
d. Damages - ✔✔d. Damages
✔✔1. Which of the following is not a strategy used to decrease a nurse's chance of
being involved in a malpractice case?
a. Generosity
b. Documentation
c. Improved communication
d. Assess and monitor the patient - ✔✔
✔✔✔✔10. The LPN/LVN is reviewing the patient's medical record. The nurse notes the
presence of an advance directive. The nurse recognizes that the purpose of this
documentation is to:
A. Help every person exercise the right to die with dignity
B. Encourage a person to determine how he or she will die
C. Allow a patient to exercise the right of autonomy
D. Provide a means to prevent medical treatment - ✔✔B. Encourage a person to
determine how he or she will die
✔✔11. The nurse knows that all patients have the right to nursing interventions
regardless of their race, religion, or gender. The ethical principle that best describes this
concept is:
A. Nonmaleficence
B. Justice
C. Autonomy
D. Beneficence - ✔✔B. Justice
