BSNC 1020 FINAL COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS STUDY GUIDE
●● What is the 4 Principle of Bioethics
a. Autonomy, Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, Justice
b. Self-awareness, Autonomous, personal identity
c. All of the above
d. None of the above
Answer: a. Autonomy, Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, Justice
●● What is the 7 Nursing Value?
Answer: 1. Providing safe, compassionate, competent, and ethical care
2. promoting health and well-being
3. Promoting and respecting informed decision-making
4. Honouring dignity
5. maintaining privacy and confidentiality
6. Promoting justice
7. Being accountable
●● What is ethical distress?
,a. Arise when there are equally compelling reasons for and against two
or more possible courses of action, and where choosing one course of
action means that something else is relinquished or let go.
b. Can occur when nurses normalize the disregard of their ethical
commitments
c. Arises when nurses are unable to act according to their moral
judgment
d. A situation where there are conflicts between one or more values and
uncertainty about the correct course of action.
Answer: c. Arises when nurses are unable to act according to their moral
judgment
●● What is Ethical Dilemma?
a. Arise when there are equally compelling reasons for and against two
or more possible courses of action, and where choosing one course of
action means that something else is relinquished or let go.
b. Can occur when nurses normalize the disregard of their ethical
commitments
c. Arises when nurses are unable to act according to their moral
judgment
d. A situation where there are conflicts between one or more values and
uncertainty about the correct course of action.
Answer: a. Arise when there are equally compelling reasons for and
against two or more possible courses of action, and where choosing one
course of action means that something else is relinquished or let go.
, ●● What is ethical indifference?
a. Implies a failure to assume the ethical responsibilities of the
profession, leaving one in a passive state that calls into question the
moral integrity of the nurse as well as imperiling the obligation to
protect the vulnerable patient
b. Can occur when nurses normalize the disregard of their ethical
commitments
c. Arises when nurses are unable to act according to their moral
judgment
d. A situation where there are conflicts between one or more values and
uncert
Answer: a. Implies a failure to assume the ethical responsibilities of the
profession, leaving one in a passive state that calls into question the
moral integrity of the nurse as well as imperiling the obligation to
protect the vulnerable patient
●● What is ethical disengagement?
a. Arise when there are equally compelling reasons for and against two
or more possible courses of action, and where choosing one course of
action means that something else is relinquished or let go.
b. Can occur when nurses normalize the disregard of their ethical
commitments
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS STUDY GUIDE
●● What is the 4 Principle of Bioethics
a. Autonomy, Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, Justice
b. Self-awareness, Autonomous, personal identity
c. All of the above
d. None of the above
Answer: a. Autonomy, Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, Justice
●● What is the 7 Nursing Value?
Answer: 1. Providing safe, compassionate, competent, and ethical care
2. promoting health and well-being
3. Promoting and respecting informed decision-making
4. Honouring dignity
5. maintaining privacy and confidentiality
6. Promoting justice
7. Being accountable
●● What is ethical distress?
,a. Arise when there are equally compelling reasons for and against two
or more possible courses of action, and where choosing one course of
action means that something else is relinquished or let go.
b. Can occur when nurses normalize the disregard of their ethical
commitments
c. Arises when nurses are unable to act according to their moral
judgment
d. A situation where there are conflicts between one or more values and
uncertainty about the correct course of action.
Answer: c. Arises when nurses are unable to act according to their moral
judgment
●● What is Ethical Dilemma?
a. Arise when there are equally compelling reasons for and against two
or more possible courses of action, and where choosing one course of
action means that something else is relinquished or let go.
b. Can occur when nurses normalize the disregard of their ethical
commitments
c. Arises when nurses are unable to act according to their moral
judgment
d. A situation where there are conflicts between one or more values and
uncertainty about the correct course of action.
Answer: a. Arise when there are equally compelling reasons for and
against two or more possible courses of action, and where choosing one
course of action means that something else is relinquished or let go.
, ●● What is ethical indifference?
a. Implies a failure to assume the ethical responsibilities of the
profession, leaving one in a passive state that calls into question the
moral integrity of the nurse as well as imperiling the obligation to
protect the vulnerable patient
b. Can occur when nurses normalize the disregard of their ethical
commitments
c. Arises when nurses are unable to act according to their moral
judgment
d. A situation where there are conflicts between one or more values and
uncert
Answer: a. Implies a failure to assume the ethical responsibilities of the
profession, leaving one in a passive state that calls into question the
moral integrity of the nurse as well as imperiling the obligation to
protect the vulnerable patient
●● What is ethical disengagement?
a. Arise when there are equally compelling reasons for and against two
or more possible courses of action, and where choosing one course of
action means that something else is relinquished or let go.
b. Can occur when nurses normalize the disregard of their ethical
commitments
