NUR 471 Exam 2 Practice
Comprehensive Assessment with Exam
Questions and Correct Answers,
Complete A+ Guide.
THIS EXAM FEATURES:ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS & CORRECT ANSWERS.
What is beneficence?
ANSWER✓✓The duty to act to benefit or promote the good of others
What is autonomy?
ANSWER✓✓Respecting the rights of others to make their own decisions
What is justice?
ANSWER✓✓The duty to distribute resources or care equally, regardless of personal attributes
What is fidelity?
ANSWER✓✓Maintaining loyalty and commitment to the patient and doing no wrong to the patient
What is veracity?
ANSWER✓✓The duty to communicate truthfully
What is the code of ethics for nurses?
ANSWER✓✓The Code provides a succinct statement of the ethical obligations and duties of every
individual who enters the nursing profession. It serves as the profession's nonnegotiable ethical
standard. Express a nursing's own understanding of its commitment to society. The Code is particularly
useful to in today's health care environment because it reiterates the fundamental values and
commitments of the nurse
What are some important mental health laws?
ANSWER✓✓Important laws for psychiatric nurses include intentional torts such as assault, battery, false
imprisonment, invasion of privacy, and defamation of character.
,How do nurses release patient information?
ANSWER✓✓Recording, tracking, and verifying the request of information. Retrieving the patient's
information. Safegaurding the information. Releasing the information. Completing and invoicing the
request
What is informal admission?
ANSWER✓✓Sought by patient. Informal admission is another way that you can freely enter a mental
health facility. It is similar to voluntary admission. The difference is that you have the right to a quicker
discharge
What is voluntary admission?
ANSWER✓✓Admission of a patient to a psychiatric hospital or other inpatient unit at his or her own
request, without coercion. Or with the consent of a guardian
What is involuntary admission (commitment)?
ANSWER✓✓Without patient's consent. Used in patients who are acutely mentally ill. Danger to self or
others. Unable to acquire basic necessities
What is an emergency commitment?
ANSWER✓✓Temporary admission. Person confused or demented; emergency admission. Used for
observation, diagnosis and treatment. Generally for 24 to 96 hours. Court hearing before discharge or
next admission
Which individual may need involuntary hospitalization? A person with alcoholism who has been sober
for 6 months but begins drinking again. An individual with schizophrenia who stops taking prescribed
antipsychotic drugs. An individual with bipolar disorder, manic phase, who has not eaten in 4 days.
Someone who repeatedly phones a national TV broadcasting service with news tips
ANSWER✓✓An individual with bipolar disorder, manic phase, who has not eaten in 4 days.
What are intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs?
ANSWER✓✓Intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs are available as a step down from
inpatient care or as a step up from other less restrictive treatment settings.
, What rights do patients have if they voluntarily are admitted?
ANSWER✓✓Patients have the right to quality treatment, the right to refuse treatment, and the right to
informed consent (i.e., knowing their treatment options and voluntarily accepting treatment).
How have past actions relating to ethical practice informed new laws to protect patients?
ANSWER✓✓Restraint and seclusion abuses in the past have resulted in strict laws concerning their use
and documentation of their use.
What is confidentiality?
ANSWER✓✓Confidentiality is one of the most important legal concepts in psychiatry. Only patients can
waive the right to confidentiality.
What rights do patients have if they have court-ordered treatment?
ANSWER✓✓The right to the least restrictive environment. Access to treatment. Right to talk to case
manager/attorney.
What is the right to treatment?
ANSWER✓✓A statutory right, established at varying governmental levels, stipulating that people with
disabilities or disorders, usually persistent or chronic in nature, have the right to receive care and
treatment suited to their needs.
What are the specific rights to treatment?
ANSWER✓✓If individuals do not carry health insurance, they are still entitled to hospital emergency
care, including labor and delivery care, regardless of their ability to pay. The law requires that all
patients who present with an emergency medical condition must receive treatment to the extent that
their emergency condition is medically "stabilized," irrespective of their ability to pay for such
treatment.
What is the right to refuse treatment?
ANSWER✓✓Every competent adult has the right to refuse unwanted medical treatment. This is part of
the right of every individual to choose what will be done to their own body, and it applies even when
refusing treatment means that the person may die. The right to refuse treatment applies to those who
cannot make medical decisions for themselves, as well as to those who can; the only difference is how
we protect the rights of people who cannot make decisions for themselves
Comprehensive Assessment with Exam
Questions and Correct Answers,
Complete A+ Guide.
THIS EXAM FEATURES:ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS & CORRECT ANSWERS.
What is beneficence?
ANSWER✓✓The duty to act to benefit or promote the good of others
What is autonomy?
ANSWER✓✓Respecting the rights of others to make their own decisions
What is justice?
ANSWER✓✓The duty to distribute resources or care equally, regardless of personal attributes
What is fidelity?
ANSWER✓✓Maintaining loyalty and commitment to the patient and doing no wrong to the patient
What is veracity?
ANSWER✓✓The duty to communicate truthfully
What is the code of ethics for nurses?
ANSWER✓✓The Code provides a succinct statement of the ethical obligations and duties of every
individual who enters the nursing profession. It serves as the profession's nonnegotiable ethical
standard. Express a nursing's own understanding of its commitment to society. The Code is particularly
useful to in today's health care environment because it reiterates the fundamental values and
commitments of the nurse
What are some important mental health laws?
ANSWER✓✓Important laws for psychiatric nurses include intentional torts such as assault, battery, false
imprisonment, invasion of privacy, and defamation of character.
,How do nurses release patient information?
ANSWER✓✓Recording, tracking, and verifying the request of information. Retrieving the patient's
information. Safegaurding the information. Releasing the information. Completing and invoicing the
request
What is informal admission?
ANSWER✓✓Sought by patient. Informal admission is another way that you can freely enter a mental
health facility. It is similar to voluntary admission. The difference is that you have the right to a quicker
discharge
What is voluntary admission?
ANSWER✓✓Admission of a patient to a psychiatric hospital or other inpatient unit at his or her own
request, without coercion. Or with the consent of a guardian
What is involuntary admission (commitment)?
ANSWER✓✓Without patient's consent. Used in patients who are acutely mentally ill. Danger to self or
others. Unable to acquire basic necessities
What is an emergency commitment?
ANSWER✓✓Temporary admission. Person confused or demented; emergency admission. Used for
observation, diagnosis and treatment. Generally for 24 to 96 hours. Court hearing before discharge or
next admission
Which individual may need involuntary hospitalization? A person with alcoholism who has been sober
for 6 months but begins drinking again. An individual with schizophrenia who stops taking prescribed
antipsychotic drugs. An individual with bipolar disorder, manic phase, who has not eaten in 4 days.
Someone who repeatedly phones a national TV broadcasting service with news tips
ANSWER✓✓An individual with bipolar disorder, manic phase, who has not eaten in 4 days.
What are intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs?
ANSWER✓✓Intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs are available as a step down from
inpatient care or as a step up from other less restrictive treatment settings.
, What rights do patients have if they voluntarily are admitted?
ANSWER✓✓Patients have the right to quality treatment, the right to refuse treatment, and the right to
informed consent (i.e., knowing their treatment options and voluntarily accepting treatment).
How have past actions relating to ethical practice informed new laws to protect patients?
ANSWER✓✓Restraint and seclusion abuses in the past have resulted in strict laws concerning their use
and documentation of their use.
What is confidentiality?
ANSWER✓✓Confidentiality is one of the most important legal concepts in psychiatry. Only patients can
waive the right to confidentiality.
What rights do patients have if they have court-ordered treatment?
ANSWER✓✓The right to the least restrictive environment. Access to treatment. Right to talk to case
manager/attorney.
What is the right to treatment?
ANSWER✓✓A statutory right, established at varying governmental levels, stipulating that people with
disabilities or disorders, usually persistent or chronic in nature, have the right to receive care and
treatment suited to their needs.
What are the specific rights to treatment?
ANSWER✓✓If individuals do not carry health insurance, they are still entitled to hospital emergency
care, including labor and delivery care, regardless of their ability to pay. The law requires that all
patients who present with an emergency medical condition must receive treatment to the extent that
their emergency condition is medically "stabilized," irrespective of their ability to pay for such
treatment.
What is the right to refuse treatment?
ANSWER✓✓Every competent adult has the right to refuse unwanted medical treatment. This is part of
the right of every individual to choose what will be done to their own body, and it applies even when
refusing treatment means that the person may die. The right to refuse treatment applies to those who
cannot make medical decisions for themselves, as well as to those who can; the only difference is how
we protect the rights of people who cannot make decisions for themselves
