NURS 215: COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EXAM Questions
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Fundamental values or assumptions about the way individuals should be treated and cared for.
These include autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, fidelity, and veracity. —Answer:
moral or ethical principles
The willingness to do what is right despite the fear of consequences. —Answer: moral courage
Feeling of powerlessness to do what is right and ethical. —Answer: moral distress
A process of considering and selecting approaches to resolve ethical issues. —Answer: moral
reasoning
A situation that exists when the individual is unsure which moral principles or values apply in
a given situation. —Answer: moral uncertainty
Beliefs that are considered very important and frequently influence an individual's behavior. —
Answer: values
autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice —Answer: moral and ethical principles
a patient's right to self-determination without outside control —Answer: autonomy
duty to actively do good for patients —Answer: beneficence
duty to prevent or avoid doing harm, whether intentional or unintentional —Answer:
nonmaleficence
the duty to be faithful to commitments —Answer: fidelity
the duty to treat all patients fairly, without regard to age, socioeconomic status or other
variables —Answer: justice
the duty to tell the truth —Answer: veracity
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,Rules or principles that determine which human actions are right or wrong. —Answer: ethics
1. A situation involving competing rules or principles that appears to have no satisfactory
solution.
2. A choice between two or more equally undesirable alternatives. —Answer: ethical dilemma
Identify which principle of ethics applies to this situation. A patient has advance directives that
clearly indicate no tube feedings. The patient is unconscious and the family is demanding a
feeding tube be placed because the patient has not eaten in 3 days. The nurse gently reminds the
family of the patient's wishes expressed in the advanced directive document.
A. Autonomy
B. Beneficence and nonmaleficence
C. Veracity
D. None of the above —Answer: A. Autonomy
Identify which principle of ethics applies to this situation. A ninety-eight-year-old widowed
female patient is admitted to the ED with pneumonia. The patient has no family, nor advance
directives. The patient goes into cardiac arrest, and no resuscitation efforts are attempted.
A. Autonomy
B. Beneficence and nonmaleficence
C. Veracity
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, D. None of the above —Answer: B. Beneficence and nonmaleficence
A patient has been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer and the prognosis is only 4-6
months to live. The nurse and doctor come to the patient together to inform the patient of the
diagnosis and prognosis.
A. Autonomy
B. Beneficence and nonmaleficence
C. Veracity
D. None of the above —Answer: C. Veracity
List the four concepts of the metaparadigm of nursing. —Answer: nursing, person, health, and
environment
set of correlated concepts, definitions and propositions that present a systemic way of viewing
facts/events by specifying relations among the variables with the purpose of explaining and
predicting the fact event —Answer: theory
includes lectures, online activities, assignments and clinical experiences such as planning,
nursing care, writing a paper on professional ethics, learning steps of a physical examination of
a healthy child, starting an intravenous line, practicing communication skills —Answer: formal
socialization
includes lectures that occur incidentally, such as the unplanned observation of a nurse teaching
a young mother how to care for her premature infant, participating in a student nurse
association or hearing nurses discuss patient care in the nurses' lounge —Answer: informal
socialization
When did Congress first enact legislation to provide support for nursing education ? —Answer:
During World War II
The move toward formal nursing education came after which war? —Answer: The Civil War
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with Answers (100% Correct Answers)
Fundamental values or assumptions about the way individuals should be treated and cared for.
These include autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, fidelity, and veracity. —Answer:
moral or ethical principles
The willingness to do what is right despite the fear of consequences. —Answer: moral courage
Feeling of powerlessness to do what is right and ethical. —Answer: moral distress
A process of considering and selecting approaches to resolve ethical issues. —Answer: moral
reasoning
A situation that exists when the individual is unsure which moral principles or values apply in
a given situation. —Answer: moral uncertainty
Beliefs that are considered very important and frequently influence an individual's behavior. —
Answer: values
autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice —Answer: moral and ethical principles
a patient's right to self-determination without outside control —Answer: autonomy
duty to actively do good for patients —Answer: beneficence
duty to prevent or avoid doing harm, whether intentional or unintentional —Answer:
nonmaleficence
the duty to be faithful to commitments —Answer: fidelity
the duty to treat all patients fairly, without regard to age, socioeconomic status or other
variables —Answer: justice
the duty to tell the truth —Answer: veracity
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,Rules or principles that determine which human actions are right or wrong. —Answer: ethics
1. A situation involving competing rules or principles that appears to have no satisfactory
solution.
2. A choice between two or more equally undesirable alternatives. —Answer: ethical dilemma
Identify which principle of ethics applies to this situation. A patient has advance directives that
clearly indicate no tube feedings. The patient is unconscious and the family is demanding a
feeding tube be placed because the patient has not eaten in 3 days. The nurse gently reminds the
family of the patient's wishes expressed in the advanced directive document.
A. Autonomy
B. Beneficence and nonmaleficence
C. Veracity
D. None of the above —Answer: A. Autonomy
Identify which principle of ethics applies to this situation. A ninety-eight-year-old widowed
female patient is admitted to the ED with pneumonia. The patient has no family, nor advance
directives. The patient goes into cardiac arrest, and no resuscitation efforts are attempted.
A. Autonomy
B. Beneficence and nonmaleficence
C. Veracity
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, D. None of the above —Answer: B. Beneficence and nonmaleficence
A patient has been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer and the prognosis is only 4-6
months to live. The nurse and doctor come to the patient together to inform the patient of the
diagnosis and prognosis.
A. Autonomy
B. Beneficence and nonmaleficence
C. Veracity
D. None of the above —Answer: C. Veracity
List the four concepts of the metaparadigm of nursing. —Answer: nursing, person, health, and
environment
set of correlated concepts, definitions and propositions that present a systemic way of viewing
facts/events by specifying relations among the variables with the purpose of explaining and
predicting the fact event —Answer: theory
includes lectures, online activities, assignments and clinical experiences such as planning,
nursing care, writing a paper on professional ethics, learning steps of a physical examination of
a healthy child, starting an intravenous line, practicing communication skills —Answer: formal
socialization
includes lectures that occur incidentally, such as the unplanned observation of a nurse teaching
a young mother how to care for her premature infant, participating in a student nurse
association or hearing nurses discuss patient care in the nurses' lounge —Answer: informal
socialization
When did Congress first enact legislation to provide support for nursing education ? —Answer:
During World War II
The move toward formal nursing education came after which war? —Answer: The Civil War
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