LEIK Professional Issues Review FNP (with solutions)

Beneficence correct answers The obligation to help the patient. Remove harm, prevent harm, promote good. ("do no harm"). Acting in the patient's best interest. Compassionate patient care. What ethical principle Educating an obese patient on the harmful effects of obesity and recommending weight loss. correct answers Beneficence What ethical principle Encouraging a patient to stop smoking and enroll in smoking cessation programs. correct answers Beneficence What ethical principle : Calling the surgeon to get a prescription for stronger pain med correct answers Beneficence Nonmaleficence correct answers Nonmaleficence The obligation to avoid harm. Protecting a patient from harm. What ethical principle A new nurse practitioner (NP) is told to suture a laceration on a patient's face. The NP tells the physician that she has not been trained to suture facial area lacerations and therefore is unable to do it. correct answers Nonmaleficence What ethical principle The NP discusses a new anticancer drug that may be more effective in treating a patient's cancer. The NP discusses the known risk versus the benefits of the new drug. The patient declines the treatment correct answers Nonmaleficence Utilitarianism correct answers The outcome of the action is what matters with utilitarianism. It also means to use a resource for the benefit of most (e.g., tax money). It may resemble justice, but it is not the same concept (see below). What ethical principle The Women, Infants, and Children food (WIC) program correct answers Not only for pregnancy and children. It is not open to adults and elderly males. The reason may be that it would cost society more if women (and their fetuses), infants, and children are harmed by inadequate food intake (affects the brain growth, etc.).