NURSING ETHICS TEST PAPER ALL ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔17. Social media use can have positive benefits including which outcomes? (Select
all that apply)
A. Networking between professionals
B. Reduction in the amount of lateral violence between staff members
C. Provides readily available education opportunities
D. Access to mentoring answer
E. Use of social media is an inexpensive answer - ✔✔A. Networking between
professionals
C. Provides readily available education opportunities
D. Access to mentoring answer
✔✔18. A nurse reported that she did a post on a social media site about her clinical
experiences. The nurse reports she did not use the patient's name. Which information
should be given to the nurse? (Select all that apply)
A. "Names are the only identifiers that are a concern when considering patient privacy"
B. "Any patient information that can aid in the identification of the patient's identity can
be a problematic and a violation
C. "As long as the information is erased there is not a problem"
D. "Any distribution of information regarding the patient or clinical assignment is a
violation of confidentiality "
E. "Personal emails are lesser violations than posting on large websites" - ✔✔B. "Any
patient information that can aid in the identification of the patient's identity can be a
problematic and a violation
D. "Any distribution of information regarding the patient or clinical assignment is a
violation of confidentiality "
✔✔19. Which statement characterizes criminal law?
A. Criminal law applies to conduct that violates a person's rights.
B. Criminal law involves an offense against an individual.
,C. Criminal law applies to conduct that is detrimental to society.
D. The purpose of criminal law is to restitute the victim. - ✔✔C. Criminal law applies to
conduct that is detrimental to society.
Criminal law is concerned with offenses against society in general and applies to
conduct that is detrimental to society as a whole. Civil law deals with personal rights and
applies to conduct that is detrimental to an individual. The purpose of criminal law is to
punish the crime and to deter and prevent further crimes. Civil law's purpose is to make
the aggrieved person whole again.
✔✔20. What is the term for injury to a person or the person's property that gives rise to
a basis for a legal action against the person who caused the damage?
A. Assault
B. Harm
C. Malpractice
D. Negligence - ✔✔B. Harm
Harm is the term for injury to a person or the person's property that gives rise to a basis
for a legal action against the person who caused the damage. Assault is an intentional
threat to cause bodily harm to another. It does not have to include actual bodily contact.
Malpractice is the failure to meet a legal duty that results in harm to another. Negligence
is the commission of an act or omission of an act that a reasonably prudent person
would have done in a similar situation, leading to harm of another person.
✔✔21. What resource would the LPN/LVNs refer to in order to know what they can and
cannot do within their scope of practice?
A.Interstate compact
B. ANA
C. The nurse practice act of their licensing state
D. Their employing institution - ✔✔C. The nurse practice act of their licensing state
The state in which the nurse receives licensing has adopted a nurse practice act that
defines the scope of nursing practice for the LPN/LVN within that state. The interstate
compact is a legal agreement that allows the multistate practice of nursing. ANA is
involved in developing standards of care for nursing practice. The employing institution
may further limit the scope of practice for an LPN/LVN, but it is for that institution only.
✔✔22. The LPN/LVN knows that building the nurse-patient relationship is important in
providing patient care, and a legal relationship is being formed. If there is a breach in
this relationship and harm to the patient has occurred, which legal action can the nurse
be charged with?
A. Assault
B Negligence
, C.Slander
D. Malpractice - ✔✔D. Malpractice
✔✔23. The nurse is caring for a patient who is scheduled for surgery. Before going to
surgery, the nurse would make sure that the patient has been fully informed about the
procedure to be done. What would the patient sign to acknowledge that he or she is
making an intelligent decision?
A. Patient's Bill of Rights
B. Accountability statement
C. Informed consent doctrine
D. Confidentiality statement - ✔✔C. Informed consent doctrine
✔✔24. When caring for patients, the nurse knows that part of the ethical principles
include all patients having the same right to nursing interventions. What is the term for
this principle?
A.Autonomy
B.Nonmaleficence
C.Justice
D.Beneficence - ✔✔C.Justice
Justice in nursing means that nurses must allocate time among all the assigned patients
to meet their needs. Autonomy refers to personal freedom of choice, a right to be
independent and make decisions freely. Nonmaleficence means to do no harm.
Beneficence means doing what is good.
✔✔25. A federal regulation that came into effect April 14, 2003, has impacted the health
care field regarding privacy of a patient's health information. What is this regulation?
A.Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
B.Patient Self-Determination Act
C.Patient's Bill of Rights
D. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - ✔✔D. Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act
✔✔26. As part of their right to refuse treatment, patients may prepare advance
directives specifying what lifesaving treatments they do or do not wish to receive. When
determining the legality of an advance directive, what applicable laws should the nurse
know?
A.Federal
B.State
C.County
D Local - ✔✔B.State
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔17. Social media use can have positive benefits including which outcomes? (Select
all that apply)
A. Networking between professionals
B. Reduction in the amount of lateral violence between staff members
C. Provides readily available education opportunities
D. Access to mentoring answer
E. Use of social media is an inexpensive answer - ✔✔A. Networking between
professionals
C. Provides readily available education opportunities
D. Access to mentoring answer
✔✔18. A nurse reported that she did a post on a social media site about her clinical
experiences. The nurse reports she did not use the patient's name. Which information
should be given to the nurse? (Select all that apply)
A. "Names are the only identifiers that are a concern when considering patient privacy"
B. "Any patient information that can aid in the identification of the patient's identity can
be a problematic and a violation
C. "As long as the information is erased there is not a problem"
D. "Any distribution of information regarding the patient or clinical assignment is a
violation of confidentiality "
E. "Personal emails are lesser violations than posting on large websites" - ✔✔B. "Any
patient information that can aid in the identification of the patient's identity can be a
problematic and a violation
D. "Any distribution of information regarding the patient or clinical assignment is a
violation of confidentiality "
✔✔19. Which statement characterizes criminal law?
A. Criminal law applies to conduct that violates a person's rights.
B. Criminal law involves an offense against an individual.
,C. Criminal law applies to conduct that is detrimental to society.
D. The purpose of criminal law is to restitute the victim. - ✔✔C. Criminal law applies to
conduct that is detrimental to society.
Criminal law is concerned with offenses against society in general and applies to
conduct that is detrimental to society as a whole. Civil law deals with personal rights and
applies to conduct that is detrimental to an individual. The purpose of criminal law is to
punish the crime and to deter and prevent further crimes. Civil law's purpose is to make
the aggrieved person whole again.
✔✔20. What is the term for injury to a person or the person's property that gives rise to
a basis for a legal action against the person who caused the damage?
A. Assault
B. Harm
C. Malpractice
D. Negligence - ✔✔B. Harm
Harm is the term for injury to a person or the person's property that gives rise to a basis
for a legal action against the person who caused the damage. Assault is an intentional
threat to cause bodily harm to another. It does not have to include actual bodily contact.
Malpractice is the failure to meet a legal duty that results in harm to another. Negligence
is the commission of an act or omission of an act that a reasonably prudent person
would have done in a similar situation, leading to harm of another person.
✔✔21. What resource would the LPN/LVNs refer to in order to know what they can and
cannot do within their scope of practice?
A.Interstate compact
B. ANA
C. The nurse practice act of their licensing state
D. Their employing institution - ✔✔C. The nurse practice act of their licensing state
The state in which the nurse receives licensing has adopted a nurse practice act that
defines the scope of nursing practice for the LPN/LVN within that state. The interstate
compact is a legal agreement that allows the multistate practice of nursing. ANA is
involved in developing standards of care for nursing practice. The employing institution
may further limit the scope of practice for an LPN/LVN, but it is for that institution only.
✔✔22. The LPN/LVN knows that building the nurse-patient relationship is important in
providing patient care, and a legal relationship is being formed. If there is a breach in
this relationship and harm to the patient has occurred, which legal action can the nurse
be charged with?
A. Assault
B Negligence
, C.Slander
D. Malpractice - ✔✔D. Malpractice
✔✔23. The nurse is caring for a patient who is scheduled for surgery. Before going to
surgery, the nurse would make sure that the patient has been fully informed about the
procedure to be done. What would the patient sign to acknowledge that he or she is
making an intelligent decision?
A. Patient's Bill of Rights
B. Accountability statement
C. Informed consent doctrine
D. Confidentiality statement - ✔✔C. Informed consent doctrine
✔✔24. When caring for patients, the nurse knows that part of the ethical principles
include all patients having the same right to nursing interventions. What is the term for
this principle?
A.Autonomy
B.Nonmaleficence
C.Justice
D.Beneficence - ✔✔C.Justice
Justice in nursing means that nurses must allocate time among all the assigned patients
to meet their needs. Autonomy refers to personal freedom of choice, a right to be
independent and make decisions freely. Nonmaleficence means to do no harm.
Beneficence means doing what is good.
✔✔25. A federal regulation that came into effect April 14, 2003, has impacted the health
care field regarding privacy of a patient's health information. What is this regulation?
A.Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
B.Patient Self-Determination Act
C.Patient's Bill of Rights
D. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - ✔✔D. Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act
✔✔26. As part of their right to refuse treatment, patients may prepare advance
directives specifying what lifesaving treatments they do or do not wish to receive. When
determining the legality of an advance directive, what applicable laws should the nurse
know?
A.Federal
B.State
C.County
D Local - ✔✔B.State
