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

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




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,LE 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
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

,t 1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of Nursing
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1. For which of the following is empathy a motive?
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a. meeting the needs of others t t t t




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c. becoming a nurse t t




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ANSWER: b t




2. Which of the following is an example of social need as an ethical foundation for nursing?
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a. Nurses must determine the health and social needs of society.
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b. Nursingfinds its origin, purpose, and meaning within the context of perceived social need.
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c. Theories of social need in sociology are utilized by nursing scholars, many of whom view them as conce
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ptual frameworks for nursing practice.
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d. Social need determines the boundaries of the ethicalprinciples of distributive justice, beneficence, an
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d non-maleficence.
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ANSWER: b t




3. What is the most critical factor that influences nursing practice?
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a. the traditional role of healers
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b. the role of women in society
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c. the religious and spiritual aspects of health care
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d. the introduction of male nurses into the profession
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ANSWER: b t




4. Why does the social status of women affect the status of the nursing profession?
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b. Throughouthistory, nurses have been afforded higher social status. t t t t t t t t




c. Women of higher social status rarely become nurses. t t t t t t t




d. Women are more skilled than men at nurturing others. t t t t t t t t




ANSWER: a t




5. What historical influences affected nursing as a moral discipline?
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a. technology
b. society
c. spirituality
d. oppression
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6. What is the term that relates to knowledge gained through observation and experience?
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a. empirical
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, c. values
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ANSWER: a t




7. Which of the following is an example of the significance of Nursing during the Middle Ages ?
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a. Religious nursing ordersand church- t t t t




sanctioned secularnursing ordersoffered theonlylegitimate avenues for women wishing to become
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nurses.
b. Increasing respect was given to nursing and midwifery, as nurses began to practise autonomously.
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c. Healing arts inDenmark and Greece were performed in sacred ceremonies bypriests, priestesses, or sha
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mans.
d. Mostnurses were women of high social status seeking ways to legitimize their position and status.
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ANSWER: a t




8. What does the term empirical relate to?
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a. serving God and thy neighbour the best way one can
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b. knowledge gained through observation and experience t t t t t




c. healingthrough religious intervention, chanting, and praying
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d. the enforcement of religious doctrine related to the status of women in society
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ANSWER: b t




9. When was the“Dark Period of Nursing,” when convalescent patients, prostitutes, prisoners, and drunkards pro
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vided hospital nursing care?
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a. during the Reformation t t




b. during the Crusades t t




c. during the Middle Ages t t t




d. during the early Christian era t t t t




ANSWER: a t




10. Which of the following had the greatest influence on nursing traditions in Canada?
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a. Britain
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c. France
d. Germany
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11. Which of the following had the greatest influence on establishing the first hospital in the New World?
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a. Marie Rollet Hebert t t




b. Marguerited’Youville t




c. Jeanne Mance t




d. Renee Descartes t




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