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NR222 EXAM 3 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2025
Autonomy - The ethical tenet that physician has the responsibility to respect patient's
choices about their own health care.
Right to choose, self-freedom
Confidentiality - protection of privacy without diminishing access to quality of care.
A legal and ethical concept that establishes the healthcare providers responsibility for
protecting health records and other personal and private information from unauthorized
use or disclosure.
Governed by HIPPA (Health Insurance Probability and Accountability Act) in 1996
Veracity - Right to know the whole truth
Violations: Dishonesty, Willful omission.
Example: Nurse applied wrong topical ointment on patients left arm. Nurse
acknowledges, documents, reports to Risk Managements, and tells her patient about error.
Fidelity - Faithfulness; loyalty
Nonmaleficence - Actively seeing to do NO harm.
Not to cause, prevent, and remove harm.
More binding than beneficence
Example: Fall risk assessment, Hand washing.
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Beneficence (goodness) - Take active steps for doing what is best for patient.
Duty to maximize the benefits of actions while minimizing harm
Example: Vaccinations, different options for treatment, second opinion, involving others
to help.
Ethics - study of conduct and character.
concerned with what is morally good and bad, right and wrong.
Provides a set of standards for making choices for own behavior/action
Bioethics - Applied ethics to medicine and health care.
Results of advances in medicine/medical technology.
Life/death, Advanced directives, organ donation, genetics, medical research.
Descriptive Theory - Describes how people act toward each other and their environments
and what people seem to believe are good/moral actions.
Normative Theory - provide general rules and principles of behavior.
Self-determination - right to determine/choose what is in their own best interest
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NR222 EXAM 3 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2025
Autonomy - The ethical tenet that physician has the responsibility to respect patient's
choices about their own health care.
Right to choose, self-freedom
Confidentiality - protection of privacy without diminishing access to quality of care.
A legal and ethical concept that establishes the healthcare providers responsibility for
protecting health records and other personal and private information from unauthorized
use or disclosure.
Governed by HIPPA (Health Insurance Probability and Accountability Act) in 1996
Veracity - Right to know the whole truth
Violations: Dishonesty, Willful omission.
Example: Nurse applied wrong topical ointment on patients left arm. Nurse
acknowledges, documents, reports to Risk Managements, and tells her patient about error.
Fidelity - Faithfulness; loyalty
Nonmaleficence - Actively seeing to do NO harm.
Not to cause, prevent, and remove harm.
More binding than beneficence
Example: Fall risk assessment, Hand washing.
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Beneficence (goodness) - Take active steps for doing what is best for patient.
Duty to maximize the benefits of actions while minimizing harm
Example: Vaccinations, different options for treatment, second opinion, involving others
to help.
Ethics - study of conduct and character.
concerned with what is morally good and bad, right and wrong.
Provides a set of standards for making choices for own behavior/action
Bioethics - Applied ethics to medicine and health care.
Results of advances in medicine/medical technology.
Life/death, Advanced directives, organ donation, genetics, medical research.
Descriptive Theory - Describes how people act toward each other and their environments
and what people seem to believe are good/moral actions.
Normative Theory - provide general rules and principles of behavior.
Self-determination - right to determine/choose what is in their own best interest
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