NR 599 FINAL EXAM Question and
Answer 2026 | Mastery Review
Resource | Grade A+
• Ethical Decision Making -✓✓-Process that requires striking a balance between
science and morality
-Making informed choices about ethical dilemmas based on a set of standards
differentiating right from wrong.
• Ethical Decision Making Process -✓✓1. Identify the ethical dilemma
2. Discover alternative actions
3. Decide who might be affected
4. List the probable effects of the alternatives
5. Select the best alternative
• Rational justification -✓✓developed through a logical process of decision making that
gives proper attention to such things as facts, alternative perspectives, consequences to
all stakeholders, and ethical principles.
• American Nurses Association- Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements.
-✓✓provides specific guidance for ethical decision making and provides a valuable
framework that can be used when working with HIT
• issues having an ethical component includes the following -✓✓1. Failure to adopt
technology or use it adeptly
2. Lack of regard for data integrity such as discrepancies. in record information that are
noted but no corrective action is taken.
3. Failure to address threats to privacy and personal health information.
4. Inappropriate access of PHI without a need to know.
5. Failure to keep informed of emerging developments and issues.
6. Failure to recognize and use technology to advance the profession.
7. Failure to engage in policy discussion that impact healthcare delivery.
8. Failure to recall that the patient is their primary focus.
9. Failure to actively participate in the selection use, and/or evaluation of technology
that has the potential to improve healthcare.
• ANAs Code of Ethics for Nurses -✓✓1. Respect for human dignity
2. Respect for individual right to self-determinism
3. Primary commitment is to the patient (individual, family, group or community)
4. Advocacy for the patient
5. Participation in the creation, maintenance, and improvement of healthcare
environments
6. Advancing the Profession
, 7. Collaboration with others to meet health needs
8. Shaping social policy.
• 6 contemporary Bioethical Standards -✓✓Autonomy
freedom
veracity
privacy
beneficence
fidelity
• What is the Husted bioethical decision making model centered on -✓✓healthcare
professionals implicit agreement with the patient
• Virtue Ethics Approach -✓✓moral behavior stems from personal virtues
• Example of virtue ethics approach -✓✓If a manager develops good character traits
and learns to overcome negative traits, he or she will make ethical decisions based on
personal virtue
• Telehealth -✓✓use of technology to deliver health care, health information, or health
education (i.e. telephone, videophone, computer, store and forward imaging, streaming
media, terrestrial and wireless communications)
• telemedicine -✓✓medical information exchange from one site to another via electronic
communications to improve patients health status
• Telehealth tools -✓✓Central stations, web servers, and portals
Peripheral biometric(medical) devices
telephones
videocameras
personal emergency response systems
sensor and activity monitoring
medication management devices
special needs telecommunications ready devices(preprogrammed infusion pumps, peak
flow meters)
• Telemedicine applications types (2) -✓✓Store-and-forward or asynchronous
real-time or synchronous
• Store and forward or asynchronous applications -✓✓exchange prerecorded data
between 2 or more individuals at different times
• real time or synchronous applications -✓✓all involved individuals are present for
immediate exchange of information
Answer 2026 | Mastery Review
Resource | Grade A+
• Ethical Decision Making -✓✓-Process that requires striking a balance between
science and morality
-Making informed choices about ethical dilemmas based on a set of standards
differentiating right from wrong.
• Ethical Decision Making Process -✓✓1. Identify the ethical dilemma
2. Discover alternative actions
3. Decide who might be affected
4. List the probable effects of the alternatives
5. Select the best alternative
• Rational justification -✓✓developed through a logical process of decision making that
gives proper attention to such things as facts, alternative perspectives, consequences to
all stakeholders, and ethical principles.
• American Nurses Association- Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements.
-✓✓provides specific guidance for ethical decision making and provides a valuable
framework that can be used when working with HIT
• issues having an ethical component includes the following -✓✓1. Failure to adopt
technology or use it adeptly
2. Lack of regard for data integrity such as discrepancies. in record information that are
noted but no corrective action is taken.
3. Failure to address threats to privacy and personal health information.
4. Inappropriate access of PHI without a need to know.
5. Failure to keep informed of emerging developments and issues.
6. Failure to recognize and use technology to advance the profession.
7. Failure to engage in policy discussion that impact healthcare delivery.
8. Failure to recall that the patient is their primary focus.
9. Failure to actively participate in the selection use, and/or evaluation of technology
that has the potential to improve healthcare.
• ANAs Code of Ethics for Nurses -✓✓1. Respect for human dignity
2. Respect for individual right to self-determinism
3. Primary commitment is to the patient (individual, family, group or community)
4. Advocacy for the patient
5. Participation in the creation, maintenance, and improvement of healthcare
environments
6. Advancing the Profession
, 7. Collaboration with others to meet health needs
8. Shaping social policy.
• 6 contemporary Bioethical Standards -✓✓Autonomy
freedom
veracity
privacy
beneficence
fidelity
• What is the Husted bioethical decision making model centered on -✓✓healthcare
professionals implicit agreement with the patient
• Virtue Ethics Approach -✓✓moral behavior stems from personal virtues
• Example of virtue ethics approach -✓✓If a manager develops good character traits
and learns to overcome negative traits, he or she will make ethical decisions based on
personal virtue
• Telehealth -✓✓use of technology to deliver health care, health information, or health
education (i.e. telephone, videophone, computer, store and forward imaging, streaming
media, terrestrial and wireless communications)
• telemedicine -✓✓medical information exchange from one site to another via electronic
communications to improve patients health status
• Telehealth tools -✓✓Central stations, web servers, and portals
Peripheral biometric(medical) devices
telephones
videocameras
personal emergency response systems
sensor and activity monitoring
medication management devices
special needs telecommunications ready devices(preprogrammed infusion pumps, peak
flow meters)
• Telemedicine applications types (2) -✓✓Store-and-forward or asynchronous
real-time or synchronous
• Store and forward or asynchronous applications -✓✓exchange prerecorded data
between 2 or more individuals at different times
• real time or synchronous applications -✓✓all involved individuals are present for
immediate exchange of information
