Correct Questions & Detailed Rationales
veracity - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----obligation to tell truth and not lie or deceive
others
fidelity - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----obligation to others or to organizations
(ANA code of ethics)
autonomy - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----right of individual to choose
beneficence - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----duty to promote good and prevent harm
nonmalificence - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----duty to cause no harm to others
justice - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----obligation to be fair
law - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----human-made rules designed to help people
maintain order in their society/settle their problems in a nondestructive manner
,statutory law - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----established through legislative process
common law - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----established by previous court decisions
public law - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----between government and individuals
(constitutional, administrative, criminal law)
private law - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----between individuals (contract, tort law)
administrative law in nursing - ---✔✔✔ANSWER-----Nurse Practice Acts
-state boards of nursing
-licensure and protection of health, safety, and welfare of citizens (entry to
practice, multistate license/telehealth, advanced practice nurses, control over
nursing practice, delegation in nursing practice)
regulatory power - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----rules and regulations for licensure,
education and practice
adjudicatory power - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----investigate, hear and decide on
outcomes of complaints
(Boards of Nursing can only limit/deny a nursing license)
, Nurse Practice Acts (NPA) - ---✔✔✔ANSWER-----commonalities among
states
-must know requirement for state (or incompact) you practice in and obtain a copy
-boundaries, definition of practice, area for discipline on practice, procedures in
place to protect nurse for challenges for licensure)
-consumers depend on healthcare professionals
Americans with Disabilities Act - ---✔✔✔ANSWER-----nurses with
disabilities (confidentiality as long as consistent with client safety; treatment; self-
reporting)
-access to practice
contract law - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----a promissory agreement between or
among two or more parties that creates a legal relationship
-express contract written or verbally (implied contract)
-enforceable contract
legal termination of a contract - ---✔✔✔ANSWER-----completely
performed: terms met
-both parties agree to a change or annul
-become impossible (death)
-breach
breach - ---✔✔✔ANSWER-----one party fails to meet the terms of
agreement