NUR 170 MODULE 6 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |
GRADED A+ | NEW UPDATE 2025-2026
What are ethics? - ANSWERS A system of moral principles or standards
governing behaviors and relationships that is based on professional nursing
beliefs, values.
Ethical standards are based on? - ANSWERS Values of the group that holds
those standards
What are values? - ANSWERS What we believe to be important, good, and
meaningful drives our behavior. Understanding personal values and those of
clients provides clarification of each other's perceptions and plays an important
role in professional nursing.
Values Essential for the Professional nurse.
Altruism
Autonomy
Human dignity
Integrity
Social justice - ANSWERS Altruism = concern for welfare & wellbeing of others
Autonomy = right to self-determination
Human dignity = inherent worth and uniqueness of individuals and populations
Integrity = acting in accordance with appropriate code of ethics & accepted
standards of practice
,Social Justice = upholding of justice, on a social scale. Treat all patients the same
How to assist patients with clarifying values? - ANSWERS List alternatives
(providing options)
Examine possible consequences of choices
Freely choose a course of action
Feel good about the choice
Affirm the choice
Act on the choice
Act with a pattern
How to assist patients with clarifying values, continued. - ANSWERS Nurses
should help patients think each question through but not impose nurse's own
values
Nurse rarely, if ever, offers an opinion, when patient asks
Redirect question back to the patient
Purpose of ANA code of ethics - ANSWERS 1) Statement of ethical obligations
and duties of nurse
2) Profession's nonnegotiable ethical standard
3) Nursing profession's statement of commitment to society
What are the principles of ethical decision making? - ANSWERS Autonomy
Beneficence
Veracity
,Justice
Fidelity
What is autonomy? - ANSWERS Patients have right to determine own care
What is Beneficence? - ANSWERS Actions guided by compassion and love.
Includes principle of nonmaleficence. Nurses must do no harm, must safeguard
patients
-Can be risk of harm in performing interventions intended for good
-Patients decide after being informed of potential benefits, risks
What is veracity? - ANSWERS Telling the truth
What is justice? - ANSWERS Treating all patients fairly, in accordance with
honor, standards, or law.
What is fidelity? - ANSWERS Keeping promises or commitments
Strategies to enhance ethical decisions in practice. Ethical decision making -
ANSWERS 1) Become aware of own values
2) Be familiar with nursing code of ethics
3) Seek continuing education opportunities
4) Respect values, opinions, responsibilities of other healthcare professionals
5) Strive for collaborative practice
6) Participate in or establish ethics rounds
, 7) Serve on institutional ethics committees
Ethical decision making, applying the principles. What is the goal of ethical
reasoning? - ANSWERS Goal is to arrive at a decision that is in patient's best
interest, preserves integrity of all people involved
Nurses must weigh competing factors when making ethical decisions
Responsible ethical decision making is rational, systemic, based on ethical
principles and codes of ethics
Not based on emotions, intuition, fixed policies, or precedent
Several individual's besides nurses are usually involves (Patient, Family, Other
healthcare members)
Collaboration, communication, and compromise are needed
Ethical decision making. Determine whether moral dilemma exists.
Moral dilemma meets these criteria. - ANSWERS Difficult choice exists
between actions that conflict with needs of one or more individuals
There are moral principles or frameworks that can be used to provide justification
for one or more of the actions
Choice is guided by a process of weighing reasons
Decision is freely, consciously chosen
Choice is affected by personal feeling, particular context of situation
When conditions are met, nurse should - ANSWERS proceed with ethical
reasoning
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |
GRADED A+ | NEW UPDATE 2025-2026
What are ethics? - ANSWERS A system of moral principles or standards
governing behaviors and relationships that is based on professional nursing
beliefs, values.
Ethical standards are based on? - ANSWERS Values of the group that holds
those standards
What are values? - ANSWERS What we believe to be important, good, and
meaningful drives our behavior. Understanding personal values and those of
clients provides clarification of each other's perceptions and plays an important
role in professional nursing.
Values Essential for the Professional nurse.
Altruism
Autonomy
Human dignity
Integrity
Social justice - ANSWERS Altruism = concern for welfare & wellbeing of others
Autonomy = right to self-determination
Human dignity = inherent worth and uniqueness of individuals and populations
Integrity = acting in accordance with appropriate code of ethics & accepted
standards of practice
,Social Justice = upholding of justice, on a social scale. Treat all patients the same
How to assist patients with clarifying values? - ANSWERS List alternatives
(providing options)
Examine possible consequences of choices
Freely choose a course of action
Feel good about the choice
Affirm the choice
Act on the choice
Act with a pattern
How to assist patients with clarifying values, continued. - ANSWERS Nurses
should help patients think each question through but not impose nurse's own
values
Nurse rarely, if ever, offers an opinion, when patient asks
Redirect question back to the patient
Purpose of ANA code of ethics - ANSWERS 1) Statement of ethical obligations
and duties of nurse
2) Profession's nonnegotiable ethical standard
3) Nursing profession's statement of commitment to society
What are the principles of ethical decision making? - ANSWERS Autonomy
Beneficence
Veracity
,Justice
Fidelity
What is autonomy? - ANSWERS Patients have right to determine own care
What is Beneficence? - ANSWERS Actions guided by compassion and love.
Includes principle of nonmaleficence. Nurses must do no harm, must safeguard
patients
-Can be risk of harm in performing interventions intended for good
-Patients decide after being informed of potential benefits, risks
What is veracity? - ANSWERS Telling the truth
What is justice? - ANSWERS Treating all patients fairly, in accordance with
honor, standards, or law.
What is fidelity? - ANSWERS Keeping promises or commitments
Strategies to enhance ethical decisions in practice. Ethical decision making -
ANSWERS 1) Become aware of own values
2) Be familiar with nursing code of ethics
3) Seek continuing education opportunities
4) Respect values, opinions, responsibilities of other healthcare professionals
5) Strive for collaborative practice
6) Participate in or establish ethics rounds
, 7) Serve on institutional ethics committees
Ethical decision making, applying the principles. What is the goal of ethical
reasoning? - ANSWERS Goal is to arrive at a decision that is in patient's best
interest, preserves integrity of all people involved
Nurses must weigh competing factors when making ethical decisions
Responsible ethical decision making is rational, systemic, based on ethical
principles and codes of ethics
Not based on emotions, intuition, fixed policies, or precedent
Several individual's besides nurses are usually involves (Patient, Family, Other
healthcare members)
Collaboration, communication, and compromise are needed
Ethical decision making. Determine whether moral dilemma exists.
Moral dilemma meets these criteria. - ANSWERS Difficult choice exists
between actions that conflict with needs of one or more individuals
There are moral principles or frameworks that can be used to provide justification
for one or more of the actions
Choice is guided by a process of weighing reasons
Decision is freely, consciously chosen
Choice is affected by personal feeling, particular context of situation
When conditions are met, nurse should - ANSWERS proceed with ethical
reasoning
