NUR 2048 – Medical-Surgical Nursing | Exam 4 Study Guide
What is an ethical dilemma? - correct answer The collision of two ethical principles
What is autonomy? - correct answer right to self-determination
What is beneficence? - correct answer Actions should promote good
What is nonmaleficence? - correct answer Do no harm
What is veracity? - correct answer Telling the truth
What is justice? - correct answer Equal treatment
What is paternalism? - correct answer Belief that healthcare provider knows best, information
is provided or withheld based on this belief
What is fidelity? - correct answer Keeping a promise
What is respect for others? - correct answer Allowing patients and families the rights to make
decisions and to live by these decisions
What is an advanced directive? - correct answer Living will
Who can make an advanced directive besides the patient? - correct answer Chaplin
What are the 3 attributes of the nurse advocate? - correct answer 1. Safeguard patients'
autonomy
2. Acting on behalf of patients
3. Championing social justice in the provision of health care
What are the 5 aspects of empowerment (the patient)? - correct answer 1. Self-Efficacy
2. Self-Awareness
3. Confidence
4. Coping skills
5. Health literacy
What are advocacy interventions & assessments? - correct answer - Educating patients about
their legal rights regarding informed decision making
- Ensuring patients have a voice
- Monitoring patients' care to safeguard patient rights.
, - Evaluating Policies and Procedures to ensure the protection of patients' right
- Intervening if the care given is unsafe, against the patients' wishes, or the patient is not
competent
- Assess the patients' ability to make decisions
- Assess the reliability of the information being given
What are the 12 patient rights? - correct answer 1. Talk about informed consent
2. Find different consent forms in different languages
3. Get info that meets sensory needs
4. Make Decisions about your care
5. Refuse care-medications treatments
6. Know the names of your caregivers
7. Safe care
8. have your pain addressed
9. Know when something goes wrong
10. Get a list of all medications
11. Courtesy and respect
12. Personal representative
What is an autocratic leader? - correct answer one person with absolute power
What is a democratic leader? - correct answer participative/shared leadership, group involved
What is laissez-faire leader? - correct answer letting things take their own course without
interfering
What is bureaucratic leadership? - correct answer concerned with procedure at expense of
efficiency
What is situational leadership? - correct answer leader adapts their style to current
environment
What is charismatic leadership? - correct answer uses communication skills, persuasive, and
charms others
What is a transactional leader? - correct answer focuses on specific tasks & uses rewards &
punishments
What is an ethical dilemma? - correct answer The collision of two ethical principles
What is autonomy? - correct answer right to self-determination
What is beneficence? - correct answer Actions should promote good
What is nonmaleficence? - correct answer Do no harm
What is veracity? - correct answer Telling the truth
What is justice? - correct answer Equal treatment
What is paternalism? - correct answer Belief that healthcare provider knows best, information
is provided or withheld based on this belief
What is fidelity? - correct answer Keeping a promise
What is respect for others? - correct answer Allowing patients and families the rights to make
decisions and to live by these decisions
What is an advanced directive? - correct answer Living will
Who can make an advanced directive besides the patient? - correct answer Chaplin
What are the 3 attributes of the nurse advocate? - correct answer 1. Safeguard patients'
autonomy
2. Acting on behalf of patients
3. Championing social justice in the provision of health care
What are the 5 aspects of empowerment (the patient)? - correct answer 1. Self-Efficacy
2. Self-Awareness
3. Confidence
4. Coping skills
5. Health literacy
What are advocacy interventions & assessments? - correct answer - Educating patients about
their legal rights regarding informed decision making
- Ensuring patients have a voice
- Monitoring patients' care to safeguard patient rights.
, - Evaluating Policies and Procedures to ensure the protection of patients' right
- Intervening if the care given is unsafe, against the patients' wishes, or the patient is not
competent
- Assess the patients' ability to make decisions
- Assess the reliability of the information being given
What are the 12 patient rights? - correct answer 1. Talk about informed consent
2. Find different consent forms in different languages
3. Get info that meets sensory needs
4. Make Decisions about your care
5. Refuse care-medications treatments
6. Know the names of your caregivers
7. Safe care
8. have your pain addressed
9. Know when something goes wrong
10. Get a list of all medications
11. Courtesy and respect
12. Personal representative
What is an autocratic leader? - correct answer one person with absolute power
What is a democratic leader? - correct answer participative/shared leadership, group involved
What is laissez-faire leader? - correct answer letting things take their own course without
interfering
What is bureaucratic leadership? - correct answer concerned with procedure at expense of
efficiency
What is situational leadership? - correct answer leader adapts their style to current
environment
What is charismatic leadership? - correct answer uses communication skills, persuasive, and
charms others
What is a transactional leader? - correct answer focuses on specific tasks & uses rewards &
punishments
