MCN Lec - Module 9 Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
are interrelated and affect all of nursing. -
correct answer ✅Law and ethics
Professional nurses must understand their __________________,
____________________, ___________________________, and
______________________. -
correct answer ✅scope of practice, standards of care, institutional
or agency policies, and government laws
All nurses are responsible for knowing current information
regarding ________ and _______ related to their practice. -
correct answer ✅Ethics and Laws Law and ethics
Maternal and child health nursing carries some legal concerns
because care is often given to patients who are not of
________________ for giving consent. The issues require specific
attention when caring for expectant families. New technologies can
lead to potential legal action, especially if the parents are
uninformed about the reason or medical necessity for these
procedures. -
correct answer ✅legal age
,MCN Lec - Module 9 Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
Nurses are also legally responsible for
______________________________, including
_________________, and are accountable for the quality of their
individual nursing care and that of other members of the health
team. -
correct answer ✅protecting the rights of their patients,
confidentiality
Understanding the
______________________________________________ can help
nurses practice within appropriate legal parameters. -
correct answer ✅scope of practice and standards of care
-basic units of heredity that determine both the physical and
cognitive characteristics of people -
correct answer ✅Genes
- anything to do with understanding, making or adapting genetic
material -
correct answer ✅Genetic technology
,MCN Lec - Module 9 Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
-the study of all genes and includes interactions among genes as
well as interactions between genes and the environment -
correct answer ✅Genomics
- the limits of nursing practice set forth in state statutes -
correct answer ✅Scopes of practice
- minimum criteria for competent, proficient delivery of nursing
care -
correct answer ✅Standards of practice
- defined as the limits of nursing practice set forth in state statutes.
A nurse must practice function within the
_________________________ or risk being accused of practicing
medicine without a license. -
correct answer ✅Scope of Practice
- minimum criteria for competent, proficient delivery of nursing
care; such standards are designed to protect the public and are
used to judge the quality of care provided. Legal interpretation of
actions within standards of care is based on what a reasonably
prudent nurse with similar education and experience would do in
, MCN Lec - Module 9 Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
similar circumstances. -
correct answer ✅Standards of Nursing Care
An act that stipulates the scope of nursing practice. It includes
provisions on nurse's responsibility in maternal, newborn, and child
care stated as follows: "A person shall be deemed to be practicing
nursing within the meaning of this Act when he/she singly or in
collaboration with another, initiates and performs nursing services
to individuals, families and communities in any health care setting.
It includes, but not limited to, nursing care during conception, labor,
delivery, infancy, childhood, toddler, preschool, school age,
adolescence, adulthood, and old age." -
correct answer ✅R.A. 9173, Scope 28 (The "Philippine Nursing Act
of 2002")
The State shall adopt an integrated and comprehensive approach to
health development which shall endeavor to make essential goods,
health and other social services available to all the people at
affordable cost. There shall be priority for the needs of the under-
privileged, sick, elderly, disabled, women, and children. The State
shall endeavor to provide free medical care to paupers. -
correct answer ✅1987 Philippine Constitution, Article 13Section
11:
Questions and Answers 2026
are interrelated and affect all of nursing. -
correct answer ✅Law and ethics
Professional nurses must understand their __________________,
____________________, ___________________________, and
______________________. -
correct answer ✅scope of practice, standards of care, institutional
or agency policies, and government laws
All nurses are responsible for knowing current information
regarding ________ and _______ related to their practice. -
correct answer ✅Ethics and Laws Law and ethics
Maternal and child health nursing carries some legal concerns
because care is often given to patients who are not of
________________ for giving consent. The issues require specific
attention when caring for expectant families. New technologies can
lead to potential legal action, especially if the parents are
uninformed about the reason or medical necessity for these
procedures. -
correct answer ✅legal age
,MCN Lec - Module 9 Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
Nurses are also legally responsible for
______________________________, including
_________________, and are accountable for the quality of their
individual nursing care and that of other members of the health
team. -
correct answer ✅protecting the rights of their patients,
confidentiality
Understanding the
______________________________________________ can help
nurses practice within appropriate legal parameters. -
correct answer ✅scope of practice and standards of care
-basic units of heredity that determine both the physical and
cognitive characteristics of people -
correct answer ✅Genes
- anything to do with understanding, making or adapting genetic
material -
correct answer ✅Genetic technology
,MCN Lec - Module 9 Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
-the study of all genes and includes interactions among genes as
well as interactions between genes and the environment -
correct answer ✅Genomics
- the limits of nursing practice set forth in state statutes -
correct answer ✅Scopes of practice
- minimum criteria for competent, proficient delivery of nursing
care -
correct answer ✅Standards of practice
- defined as the limits of nursing practice set forth in state statutes.
A nurse must practice function within the
_________________________ or risk being accused of practicing
medicine without a license. -
correct answer ✅Scope of Practice
- minimum criteria for competent, proficient delivery of nursing
care; such standards are designed to protect the public and are
used to judge the quality of care provided. Legal interpretation of
actions within standards of care is based on what a reasonably
prudent nurse with similar education and experience would do in
, MCN Lec - Module 9 Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
similar circumstances. -
correct answer ✅Standards of Nursing Care
An act that stipulates the scope of nursing practice. It includes
provisions on nurse's responsibility in maternal, newborn, and child
care stated as follows: "A person shall be deemed to be practicing
nursing within the meaning of this Act when he/she singly or in
collaboration with another, initiates and performs nursing services
to individuals, families and communities in any health care setting.
It includes, but not limited to, nursing care during conception, labor,
delivery, infancy, childhood, toddler, preschool, school age,
adolescence, adulthood, and old age." -
correct answer ✅R.A. 9173, Scope 28 (The "Philippine Nursing Act
of 2002")
The State shall adopt an integrated and comprehensive approach to
health development which shall endeavor to make essential goods,
health and other social services available to all the people at
affordable cost. There shall be priority for the needs of the under-
privileged, sick, elderly, disabled, women, and children. The State
shall endeavor to provide free medical care to paupers. -
correct answer ✅1987 Philippine Constitution, Article 13Section
11:
