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Test Bank for Ethics and Issues in Contemporary Nursing, 3rd Canadian Edition by Margaret A. Burkhardt, Nancy Walton, and Alvita Nathaniel. This study resource supports nursing students reviewing ethical principles, professional nursing issues, legal considerations, and contemporary challenges in healthcare. Topics include the historical development of nursing, ethical theory, ethical principles, values clarification, values development, professional nursing ethics, ethical decision-making, legal issues, professional relationships, technology in nursing practice, patient self-determination, scholarship issues, global health consciousness, health policy, economic and social issues, gender issues, transcultural and spiritual considerations, nurse empowerment, and patient empowerment. The 3rd edition is organized around principled behavior and the application of ethics to contemporary nursing practice. Useful for nursing students and healthcare learners preparing for quizzes, examinations, classroom discussions, and chapter-by-chapter review.

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TEST BANK
Ethics and Issues in Contemporary Nursing 3rd Edition
by Margaret A. Burkhardt, Nancy Walton, All Chapters 1 -
20




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TABLE OF CONTENTS



Part I: Guides for Principled Behavior
1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development
of Nursing
2. Ethical Theory
3. Ethical Principles
Part II: Developing Principled Behavior
4. Values Clarification
5. Values Development
6. Ethics and Professional Nursing
7. Ethical Decision Making
Part III: Principled Behavior in the Professional Domain
8. Legal Issues
9. Professional Relationship Issues
10. Practice Issues Related to Technology
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11. Practice Issues Related to Patient Self-Determination
12. Scholarship Issues
Part IV: Global Issues that Interface with Nursing Practice
13. Global Consciousness in the Twenty-First Century
14. Health Policy Issues
15. Economic Issues
16. Social Issues
17. Gender Issues
18. Transcultural and Spiritual Issues
Part V: The Power to Make a Difference
19. Empowerment for Nurses
20. Facilitating Patient Empowerment




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1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development
of Nursing

Multiple Choice

1. Forwhich of the following is empathy a motive?
a. meeting the needs of others

b. moral reasoning and action

c. becoming a nurse

d. determining right from wrong

ANSWER: b

2. Which of the following is an example of social need as an ethical foundation for
nursing?
a. Nurses must determine the health and social needs of society.

b. Nursing finds its origin, purpose, and meaning within the context of
perceived social need.
c. Theories of social need in sociology are utilized by nursing scholars,
many of whom view them as conceptual frameworks for nursing
practice.
d. Social need determines the boundaries of the ethical principles of
distributive justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence.
ANSWER: b

3. What is the most critical factor that influences nursing practice?
a. the traditional role of healers

b. the role of women in society

c. the religious and spiritual aspects of health care

d. the introduction of male nurses into the profession

ANSWER: b

4. Why does the social status of women affect the status of the nursing

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Publisher: 2010 ISBN: 9780176105280 Edition: Unknown

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