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Test Bank For Ethics and Issues in Contemporary Nursing. 3rd Edition
by Burkhardt, Walton, Nathaniel
All Chapters Covered| 100% Verified Answers| Updated 2025
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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
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Part III: Principled Behavior in the Professional Domain
8. Legal Issues LE
9. Professional Relationship Issues
10. Practice Issues Related to Technology
11. Practice Issues Related to Patient Self-Determination
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12. Scholarship Issues
Part IV: Global Issues that Interface with Nursing Practice
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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. For which 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
CORRECT ANSWER: b
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2.
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Which of the following is an example of social need as an ethical foundation for nursing?
Nurses must determine the health and social needs of society.
b. Nursing finds its origin, purpose, and meaning within the context of perceived social
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need.
c. Theories of social need in sociology are utilized by nursing scholars, many of whom view
them as conceptual frameworks for nursing practice.
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d. Social need determines the boundaries of the ethical principles of distributive justice,
beneficence, and non-maleficence.
CORRECT 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
CORRECT ANSWER: b
4. Why does the social status of women affect the status of the nursing profession?
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a. Nursing has traditionally been a profession of women.
b. Throughout history, nurses have been afforded higher social status.
c. Women of higher social status rarely become nurses.
d. Women are more skilled than men at nurturing others.
CORRECT ANSWER: a
5. What historical influences affected nursing as a moral discipline?
a. technology
b. society
c. spirituality
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d. oppression
CORRECT ANSWER: c LE
6. What is the term that relates to knowledge gained through observation and experience?
a. empirical
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b. Cartesian philosophy
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c. values
d. moral thought
CORRECT ANSWER: a
7. Which of the following is an example of the significance of Nursing during the Middle
Ages ?
a. Religious nursing orders and church-sanctioned secular nursing orders offered the only
legitimate avenues for women wishing to become nurses.
b. Increasing respect was given to nursing and midwifery, as nurses began to practise
autonomously.
c. Healing arts in Denmark and Greece were performed in sacred ceremonies by priests,
priestesses, or shamans.
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Test Bank For Ethics and Issues in Contemporary Nursing. 3rd Edition
by Burkhardt, Walton, Nathaniel
All Chapters Covered| 100% Verified Answers| Updated 2025
C
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TEST BANK
ST
BE
1
,TEST BANK
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
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Part III: Principled Behavior in the Professional Domain
8. Legal Issues LE
9. Professional Relationship Issues
10. Practice Issues Related to Technology
11. Practice Issues Related to Patient Self-Determination
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12. Scholarship Issues
Part IV: Global Issues that Interface with Nursing Practice
BE
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. For which 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
CORRECT ANSWER: b
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2.
a.
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Which of the following is an example of social need as an ethical foundation for nursing?
Nurses must determine the health and social needs of society.
b. Nursing finds its origin, purpose, and meaning within the context of perceived social
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need.
c. Theories of social need in sociology are utilized by nursing scholars, many of whom view
them as conceptual frameworks for nursing practice.
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d. Social need determines the boundaries of the ethical principles of distributive justice,
beneficence, and non-maleficence.
CORRECT 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
CORRECT ANSWER: b
4. Why does the social status of women affect the status of the nursing profession?
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a. Nursing has traditionally been a profession of women.
b. Throughout history, nurses have been afforded higher social status.
c. Women of higher social status rarely become nurses.
d. Women are more skilled than men at nurturing others.
CORRECT ANSWER: a
5. What historical influences affected nursing as a moral discipline?
a. technology
b. society
c. spirituality
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d. oppression
CORRECT ANSWER: c LE
6. What is the term that relates to knowledge gained through observation and experience?
a. empirical
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b. Cartesian philosophy
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c. values
d. moral thought
CORRECT ANSWER: a
7. Which of the following is an example of the significance of Nursing during the Middle
Ages ?
a. Religious nursing orders and church-sanctioned secular nursing orders offered the only
legitimate avenues for women wishing to become nurses.
b. Increasing respect was given to nursing and midwifery, as nurses began to practise
autonomously.
c. Healing arts in Denmark and Greece were performed in sacred ceremonies by priests,
priestesses, or shamans.
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