CONCERNS COMPLETE ANSWER GUIDE 2026
◉ General Guidelines for Ethical Decision-Making. Answer: Collect
the facts.
◉ General Guidelines for Ethical Decision-Making. Answer: Ask
questions about behavior.
◉ General Guidelines for Ethical Decision-Making. Answer: Discuss
concerns with an authority.
◉ General Guidelines for Ethical Decision-Making. Answer:
Understand your motivation and choose course of action.
◉ General Guidelines for Ethical Decision-Making. Answer: Prepare
to accept consequences.
◉ Ethical Issues in Nursing #1. Answer: Dilemmas exist when there
is the belief that appropriate and safe care cannot be provided.
◉ Ethical Issues in Nursing #1. Answer: Choosing between the
employer's requirements and what the patient needs.
, ◉ Ethical Issues in Nursing #1. Answer: Staffing shortages, excessive
paperwork and administrative tasks, cost-containment measures,
managed care, mandatory overtime, risks to personal health and
safety.
◉ Ethical Issues in Nursing #2. Answer: Right to refuse to assist with
a procedure you believe is morally or ethically wrong.
◉ Ethical Issues in Nursing #2. Answer: Cannot refuse to provide
nursing care for a patient.
◉ Bioethics #1. Answer: Implications of biologic research and
applications.
◉ Bioethics Committees. Answer: Bring all available information
and points of view to a bioethical dilemma.
◉ Bioethics Committees. Answer: Task is to make a decision about
action to be taken.
◉ Contemporary Bioethical Dilemmas. Answer: Reproductive Issues
such as birth control, abortion, alternative fertilization, womb
transplant.