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HCR 210 Questions and Correct Answers
nonmaleficence Ans: do no harm
teleologic viewing Ans: thinking in terms of consequences
client centered Ans: concerned with patient/family/nurse
relationship values
peer centered Ans: concerned with actions/interactions that
involve peers, colleagues, and the nursing profession
society centered Ans: concerned with issues that affect the larger
society
the therapeutic nurse-client relationship is based on what Ans:
trust
what two things exist within the context of that trusting
relationship Ans: obligations and rights
what is the essential value within the therapeutic relationship Ans:
respect for human dignity
the nurse functions as _____ ________ Ans: client advocate
confidentiality Ans: the obligation to keep private any information
about the patient, but only shared with those who need to know in
order to provide care to that patient
confidentiality within the professional nurse-client relationship is
justified by what three things Ans: 1. principles of autonomy and
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right to privacy, 2. respect for intimacy within the relationship, 3.
obligation of the professional beyond the basic principle of loyalty
5 exceptions of maintaining confidentiality Ans: emergency
situations, client not competent of making health care decisions,
protection of third party, mandatory reporting of private
information required by law, and requesting psychiatric care of
person who is dangerous to self or others
who is confidentiality most commonly violated by Ans: health care
professionals
what document covers autonomy Ans: Patient Bill of Rights
Patient Bill of Rights Ans: a voluntary document by the American
Hospital Association reflects the importance of patients'
involvement in their health care and their rights and
responsibilities
paternalism Ans: a concept in which a person makes a decision for
a client, without that client's involvement in making the decision
what does paternalism threaten Ans: autonomy
what four concepts are involved in end of life care Ans: medical
futility, double effect, palliative care, and curative/restorative care
medical futility Ans: situation in which interventions have no
expected medical benefits or in which chance for success is low
double effect Ans: situations given in which medication is given in
hopes of controlling pain/maintaining comfort may hasten death,
but the intent has to be to control pain not hasten death
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HCR 210 Questions and Correct Answers
nonmaleficence Ans: do no harm
teleologic viewing Ans: thinking in terms of consequences
client centered Ans: concerned with patient/family/nurse
relationship values
peer centered Ans: concerned with actions/interactions that
involve peers, colleagues, and the nursing profession
society centered Ans: concerned with issues that affect the larger
society
the therapeutic nurse-client relationship is based on what Ans:
trust
what two things exist within the context of that trusting
relationship Ans: obligations and rights
what is the essential value within the therapeutic relationship Ans:
respect for human dignity
the nurse functions as _____ ________ Ans: client advocate
confidentiality Ans: the obligation to keep private any information
about the patient, but only shared with those who need to know in
order to provide care to that patient
confidentiality within the professional nurse-client relationship is
justified by what three things Ans: 1. principles of autonomy and
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right to privacy, 2. respect for intimacy within the relationship, 3.
obligation of the professional beyond the basic principle of loyalty
5 exceptions of maintaining confidentiality Ans: emergency
situations, client not competent of making health care decisions,
protection of third party, mandatory reporting of private
information required by law, and requesting psychiatric care of
person who is dangerous to self or others
who is confidentiality most commonly violated by Ans: health care
professionals
what document covers autonomy Ans: Patient Bill of Rights
Patient Bill of Rights Ans: a voluntary document by the American
Hospital Association reflects the importance of patients'
involvement in their health care and their rights and
responsibilities
paternalism Ans: a concept in which a person makes a decision for
a client, without that client's involvement in making the decision
what does paternalism threaten Ans: autonomy
what four concepts are involved in end of life care Ans: medical
futility, double effect, palliative care, and curative/restorative care
medical futility Ans: situation in which interventions have no
expected medical benefits or in which chance for success is low
double effect Ans: situations given in which medication is given in
hopes of controlling pain/maintaining comfort may hasten death,
but the intent has to be to control pain not hasten death
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