Ethicsand Issues inContemporaryNursing3rd Edition
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by Margaret A. Burkhardt, Nancy Walton,All Chapters1 - 20
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,TABLEOFCONTENTS V V V
Part I: Guides for Principled Behavior
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1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of Nursing
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2. Ethical Theory V
3. Ethical Principles V
Part II: Developing Principled Behavior
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4. Values Clarification V
5. Values Development V
6. Ethics and Professional Nursing
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7. Ethical Decision Making V V
Part III: Principled Behavior in the Professional Domain
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8. Legal Issues V
9. Professional Relationship Issues V V
10. Practice Issues Related to Technology V V V V
11. Practice Issues Related to Patient Self-Determination
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12. Scholarship Issues V
Part IV: Global Issues that Interface with Nursing Practice
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13. Global Consciousness in the Twenty-First CenturyV V V V V
14. Health Policy Issues V V
15. Economic Issues V
16. Social Issues V
17. Gender Issues V
18. Transcultural and Spiritual Issues V V V
Part V: The Power to Make a Difference
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19. Empowerment for Nurses V V
20. Facilitating Patient Empowerment V V
,1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of Nursing
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Multiple Choice V
1. For which of the following is empathy a motive?
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a. meeting the needs of others V V V V
b. moral reasoning and action V V V
c. becoming a nurse V V
d. determining right from wrong V V V
ANSWER: b V
2. Which of the following is an example of social need as an ethical foundation for nursing?
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a. Nurses must determine the health and social needs of society.
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b. Nursing finds its origin, purpose, and meaning within the context of perceived social need.
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c. Theories of social need in sociology are utilized by nursing scholars, many of whom view them as
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conceptual frameworks for nursing practice.
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d. Social need determines the boundaries of the ethical principles of distributive justice, beneficence, and
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non-maleficence.
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ANSWER: b V
3. What is the most critical factor that influences nursing practice?
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a. the traditional role of healers
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b. the role of women in society
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c. the religious and spiritual aspects of health care
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d. the introduction of male nurses into the profession
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ANSWER: b V
4. Why does the social status of women affect the status of the nursing profession?
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a. Nursing has traditionally been a profession of women. V V V V V V V
b. Throughout history, nurses have been afforded higher social status. V V V V V V V V
c. Women of higher social status rarely become nurses. V V V V V V V
d. Women are more skilled than men at nurturing others. V V V V V V V V
ANSWER: a V
5. What historical influences affected nursing as a moral discipline?
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a. technology
b. society
c. spirituality
d. oppression
ANSWER: c V
6. What is the term that relates to knowledge gained through observation and experience?
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a. empirical
b. Cartesian philosophy V
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d. moral thought V
ANSWER: a VV
7. Which of the following is an example of the significance of Nursing during the Middle Ages ?
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a. Religious nursing orders and church-sanctioned secular nursing orders offered the only legitimate
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Vavenues for women wishing to become nurses. V V V V V V
b. Increasing respect was given to nursing and midwifery, as nurses began to practise autonomously.
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c. Healing arts in Denmark and Greece were performed in sacred ceremonies by priests, priestesses, or
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V shamans.
d. Most nurses were women of high social status seeking ways to legitimize their position and status.
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ANSWER: a VV
8. What does the term empirical relate to?
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a. serving God and thy neighbour the best way one can
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b. knowledge gained through observation and experience V V V V V
c. healing through religious intervention, chanting, and praying
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d. the enforcement of religious doctrine related to the status of women in society
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ANSWER: b V
9. When was the “Dark Period of Nursing,” when convalescent patients, prostitutes, prisoners, and drunkards
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V provided hospital nursing care?
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a. during the Reformation V V
b. during the Crusades V V
c. during the Middle Ages V V V
d. during the early Christian era V V V V
ANSWER: a VV
10. Which of the following had the greatest influence on nursing traditions in Canada?
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a. Britain
b. indigenous persons V
c. France
d. Germany
ANSWER: c V
11. Which of the following had the greatest influence on establishing the first hospital in the New World?
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a. Marie Rollet Hebert V V
b. Marguerited’Youville V
c. Jeanne Mance V
d. ReneeDescartes V
ANSWER: c V