LEIK Professional Issues Review FNP
Exam Questions And Answers
Beneficence - correct answer ✅The obligation to help the patient.
Remove harm, prevent harm, promote good. ("do no harm"). Acting in
the patient's best interest. Compassionate patient care.
What ethical principle
Educating an obese patient on the harmful effects of obesity and
recommending weight loss. - correct answer ✅Beneficence
What ethical principle
Encouraging a patient to stop smoking and enroll in smoking cessation
programs. - correct answer ✅Beneficence
What ethical principle
: Calling the surgeon to get a prescription for stronger pain med -
correct answer ✅Beneficence
Nonmaleficence - correct answer ✅Nonmaleficence The obligation to
avoid harm. Protecting a patient from harm.
What ethical principle
,LEIK Professional Issues Review FNP
Exam Questions And Answers
A new nurse practitioner (NP) is told to suture a laceration on a
patient's face. The NP tells the physician that she has not been trained
to suture facial area lacerations and therefore is unable to do it. -
correct answer ✅Nonmaleficence
What ethical principle
The NP discusses a new anticancer drug that may be more effective in
treating a patient's cancer. The NP discusses the known risk versus the
benefits of the new drug. The patient declines the treatment - correct
answer ✅Nonmaleficence
Utilitarianism - correct answer ✅The outcome of the action is what
matters with utilitarianism. It also means to use a resource for the
benefit of most (e.g., tax money). It may resemble justice, but it is not
the same concept (see below).
What ethical principle
The Women, Infants, and Children food (WIC) program - correct answer
✅Not only for pregnancy
and children.
, LEIK Professional Issues Review FNP
Exam Questions And Answers
It is not open to adults and elderly males. The reason may be that it
would cost society more if women (and their fetuses), infants, and
children are harmed by inadequate food intake (affects the brain
growth, etc.).
Justice - correct answer ✅The lack of bias. The right to fair and
equitable treatment. The fair and equitable distribution of societal
resources.
What ethical principle
Low-income individuals do not pay some types of taxes to the
government, but they still have equal access to the postal service and
other public services that are supported by taxes. - correct answer
✅Justice
What ethical principle
A homeless alcoholic male without health insurance presents to the ED
for abdominal pain. The patient is triaged and treated in the same
manner as the other patients who have health insurance. - correct
answer ✅Justice
Exam Questions And Answers
Beneficence - correct answer ✅The obligation to help the patient.
Remove harm, prevent harm, promote good. ("do no harm"). Acting in
the patient's best interest. Compassionate patient care.
What ethical principle
Educating an obese patient on the harmful effects of obesity and
recommending weight loss. - correct answer ✅Beneficence
What ethical principle
Encouraging a patient to stop smoking and enroll in smoking cessation
programs. - correct answer ✅Beneficence
What ethical principle
: Calling the surgeon to get a prescription for stronger pain med -
correct answer ✅Beneficence
Nonmaleficence - correct answer ✅Nonmaleficence The obligation to
avoid harm. Protecting a patient from harm.
What ethical principle
,LEIK Professional Issues Review FNP
Exam Questions And Answers
A new nurse practitioner (NP) is told to suture a laceration on a
patient's face. The NP tells the physician that she has not been trained
to suture facial area lacerations and therefore is unable to do it. -
correct answer ✅Nonmaleficence
What ethical principle
The NP discusses a new anticancer drug that may be more effective in
treating a patient's cancer. The NP discusses the known risk versus the
benefits of the new drug. The patient declines the treatment - correct
answer ✅Nonmaleficence
Utilitarianism - correct answer ✅The outcome of the action is what
matters with utilitarianism. It also means to use a resource for the
benefit of most (e.g., tax money). It may resemble justice, but it is not
the same concept (see below).
What ethical principle
The Women, Infants, and Children food (WIC) program - correct answer
✅Not only for pregnancy
and children.
, LEIK Professional Issues Review FNP
Exam Questions And Answers
It is not open to adults and elderly males. The reason may be that it
would cost society more if women (and their fetuses), infants, and
children are harmed by inadequate food intake (affects the brain
growth, etc.).
Justice - correct answer ✅The lack of bias. The right to fair and
equitable treatment. The fair and equitable distribution of societal
resources.
What ethical principle
Low-income individuals do not pay some types of taxes to the
government, but they still have equal access to the postal service and
other public services that are supported by taxes. - correct answer
✅Justice
What ethical principle
A homeless alcoholic male without health insurance presents to the ED
for abdominal pain. The patient is triaged and treated in the same
manner as the other patients who have health insurance. - correct
answer ✅Justice
