TEST BANK
Ethics and Issues in Contemporary Nursing 3rd Edition
by Margaret A. Burkhardt, Nancy Walton, All Chapters 1 - 20
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I: Guides for Principled Behavior
1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of Nursing
2. Ethical Theory
3. Ethical Principles
Part II: Developing Principled Behavior
4. Values Clarification
5. Values Development
6. Ethics and Professional Nursing
7. Ethical Decision Making
Part III: Principled Behavior in the Professional Domain
8. Legal Issues
9. Professional Relationship Issues
10. Practice Issues Related to Technology
11. Practice Issues Related to Patient Self-Determination
12. Scholarship Issues
Part IV: Global Issues that Interface with Nursing Practice
13. Global Consciousness in the Twenty-First Century
14. Health Policy Issues
15. Economic Issues
16. Social Issues
17. Gender Issues
18. Transcultural and Spiritual Issues
Part V: The Power to Make a Difference
19. Empowerment for Nurses
20. Facilitating Patient Empowerment
,1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of Nursing
Multiple Choice
1. For which of the following is empathy a motive?
a. meeting the needs of others
b. moral reasoning and action
c. becoming a nurse
d. determining right from wrong
ANSWER: b
2. Which of the following is an example of social need as an ethical foundation for nursing?
a. Nurses must determine the health and social needs of society.
b. Nursing finds its origin, purpose, and meaning within the context of perceived social need.
c. Theories of social need in sociology are utilized by nursing scholars, many of whom view them
as conceptual frameworks for nursing practice.
d. Social need determines the boundaries of the ethical principles of distributive justice, beneficence,
and non-maleficence.
ANSWER: b
3. What is the most critical factor that influences nursing practice?
a. the traditional role of healers
b. the role of women in society
c. the religious and spiritual aspects of health care
d. the introduction of male nurses into the profession
ANSWER: b
4. Why does the social status of women affect the status of the nursing profession?
a. Nursing has traditionally been a profession of women.
b. Throughout history, nurses have been afforded higher social status.
c. Women of higher social status rarely become nurses.
d. Women are more skilled than men at nurturing others.
ANSWER: a
5. What historical influences affected nursing as a moral discipline?
a. technology
b. society
c. spirituality
d. oppression
ANSWER: c
6. What is the term that relates to knowledge gained through observation and experience?
a. empirical
b. Cartesian philosophy
, c. values
d. moral thought
ANSWER: a
7. Which aof athe afollowing ais aan aexample aof athe asignificance aof aNursing aduring athe aMiddle aAges a?
a. Religious anursing aorders aand achurch-sanctioned asecular anursing aorders aoffered athe aonly
alegitimate a avenues afor awomen awishing ato abecome anurses.
b. Increasing arespect awas agiven ato anursing aand amidwifery, aas anurses abegan ato apractise
aautonomously.
c. Healing aarts ain aDenmark aand aGreece awere aperformed ain asacred aceremonies aby apriests,
apriestesses, aor a shamans.
d. Most anurses awere awomen aof ahigh asocial astatus aseeking aways ato alegitimize atheir aposition aand
astatus.
ANSWER: a aa
8. What adoes athe aterm aempirical arelate ato?
a. serving aGod aand athy aneighbour athe abest away aone acan
b. knowledge agained athrough aobservation aand aexperience
c. healing athrough areligious aintervention, achanting, aand apraying
d. the aenforcement aof areligious adoctrine arelated ato athe astatus aof awomen ain asociety
ANSWER: a b
9. When awas athe a“Dark aPeriod aof aNursing,” awhen aconvalescent apatients, aprostitutes, aprisoners, aand
adrunkards a provided ahospital anursing acare?
a. during athe aReformation
b. during athe aCrusades
c. during athe aMiddle aAges
d. during athe aearly aChristian aera
ANSWER: a aa
10. Which aof athe afollowing ahad athe agreatest ainfluence aon anursing atraditions ain aCanada?
a. Britain
b. indigenous apersons
c. France
d. Germany
ANSWER: a c
11. Which aof athe afollowing ahad athe agreatest ainfluence aon aestablishing athe afirst ahospital ain athe aNew
aWorld?
a. Marie aRollet aHebert
b. Marguerite ad’Youville
c. Jeanne aMance
d. Renee aDescartes
ANSWER: a c
Ethics and Issues in Contemporary Nursing 3rd Edition
by Margaret A. Burkhardt, Nancy Walton, All Chapters 1 - 20
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I: Guides for Principled Behavior
1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of Nursing
2. Ethical Theory
3. Ethical Principles
Part II: Developing Principled Behavior
4. Values Clarification
5. Values Development
6. Ethics and Professional Nursing
7. Ethical Decision Making
Part III: Principled Behavior in the Professional Domain
8. Legal Issues
9. Professional Relationship Issues
10. Practice Issues Related to Technology
11. Practice Issues Related to Patient Self-Determination
12. Scholarship Issues
Part IV: Global Issues that Interface with Nursing Practice
13. Global Consciousness in the Twenty-First Century
14. Health Policy Issues
15. Economic Issues
16. Social Issues
17. Gender Issues
18. Transcultural and Spiritual Issues
Part V: The Power to Make a Difference
19. Empowerment for Nurses
20. Facilitating Patient Empowerment
,1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of Nursing
Multiple Choice
1. For which of the following is empathy a motive?
a. meeting the needs of others
b. moral reasoning and action
c. becoming a nurse
d. determining right from wrong
ANSWER: b
2. Which of the following is an example of social need as an ethical foundation for nursing?
a. Nurses must determine the health and social needs of society.
b. Nursing finds its origin, purpose, and meaning within the context of perceived social need.
c. Theories of social need in sociology are utilized by nursing scholars, many of whom view them
as conceptual frameworks for nursing practice.
d. Social need determines the boundaries of the ethical principles of distributive justice, beneficence,
and non-maleficence.
ANSWER: b
3. What is the most critical factor that influences nursing practice?
a. the traditional role of healers
b. the role of women in society
c. the religious and spiritual aspects of health care
d. the introduction of male nurses into the profession
ANSWER: b
4. Why does the social status of women affect the status of the nursing profession?
a. Nursing has traditionally been a profession of women.
b. Throughout history, nurses have been afforded higher social status.
c. Women of higher social status rarely become nurses.
d. Women are more skilled than men at nurturing others.
ANSWER: a
5. What historical influences affected nursing as a moral discipline?
a. technology
b. society
c. spirituality
d. oppression
ANSWER: c
6. What is the term that relates to knowledge gained through observation and experience?
a. empirical
b. Cartesian philosophy
, c. values
d. moral thought
ANSWER: a
7. Which aof athe afollowing ais aan aexample aof athe asignificance aof aNursing aduring athe aMiddle aAges a?
a. Religious anursing aorders aand achurch-sanctioned asecular anursing aorders aoffered athe aonly
alegitimate a avenues afor awomen awishing ato abecome anurses.
b. Increasing arespect awas agiven ato anursing aand amidwifery, aas anurses abegan ato apractise
aautonomously.
c. Healing aarts ain aDenmark aand aGreece awere aperformed ain asacred aceremonies aby apriests,
apriestesses, aor a shamans.
d. Most anurses awere awomen aof ahigh asocial astatus aseeking aways ato alegitimize atheir aposition aand
astatus.
ANSWER: a aa
8. What adoes athe aterm aempirical arelate ato?
a. serving aGod aand athy aneighbour athe abest away aone acan
b. knowledge agained athrough aobservation aand aexperience
c. healing athrough areligious aintervention, achanting, aand apraying
d. the aenforcement aof areligious adoctrine arelated ato athe astatus aof awomen ain asociety
ANSWER: a b
9. When awas athe a“Dark aPeriod aof aNursing,” awhen aconvalescent apatients, aprostitutes, aprisoners, aand
adrunkards a provided ahospital anursing acare?
a. during athe aReformation
b. during athe aCrusades
c. during athe aMiddle aAges
d. during athe aearly aChristian aera
ANSWER: a aa
10. Which aof athe afollowing ahad athe agreatest ainfluence aon anursing atraditions ain aCanada?
a. Britain
b. indigenous apersons
c. France
d. Germany
ANSWER: a c
11. Which aof athe afollowing ahad athe agreatest ainfluence aon aestablishing athe afirst ahospital ain athe aNew
aWorld?
a. Marie aRollet aHebert
b. Marguerite ad’Youville
c. Jeanne aMance
d. Renee aDescartes
ANSWER: a c
