NURN 129 Nursing Ethics Exam Questions With
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What are the five most frequently-occurring ethical issues? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-1. protecting patients rights | | |
2. autonomy and informed consent to treatment
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3. staffing patterns
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4. advanced care planning
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5. surrogate decision-making
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Most common unethical practices of health care professionals? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-1. breaches of patients confidentiality or privacy
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2. end of life decision making
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True or false: Younger nurses and those fewer years of experience encountered
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ethical issues more frequently and reported higher levels of stress - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-duh...true
True or false: Nurses are the most trusted profession - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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True
Who wrote the nursing code of ethics? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-American
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Nursing Association (ANA)
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International Council of Nurses (ICN) | | | |
, Nursing care should be based on what..? list them. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1.
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EBP
2. strong sense of what is right and wrong
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3. strong sense of what we should be doing, and what we shouldn't be doing
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4. strong sense of our priorities
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Explain Nursing Decisions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Nurses should be able to
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explain/account for the decisions that they make | | | | | |
True or false: Ethical Dilemmas require debates and time - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-true
What is an ethical issue? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. when you judge what is right
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and wrong
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2. having to choose between two options (both may be wrong)
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3. deciding whether to do something or nothing
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4. weighing up your potential impact of your decisions/action
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Define dilemma - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-making a difficult choice without a clear
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cut option
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True or False: Ethical issues in Health care are not always about the "big" issues -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-true |
Correct Answers
What are the five most frequently-occurring ethical issues? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-1. protecting patients rights | | |
2. autonomy and informed consent to treatment
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3. staffing patterns
| |
4. advanced care planning
| | |
5. surrogate decision-making
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Most common unethical practices of health care professionals? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-1. breaches of patients confidentiality or privacy
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2. end of life decision making
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True or false: Younger nurses and those fewer years of experience encountered
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ethical issues more frequently and reported higher levels of stress - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-duh...true
True or false: Nurses are the most trusted profession - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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True
Who wrote the nursing code of ethics? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-American
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Nursing Association (ANA)
| |
International Council of Nurses (ICN) | | | |
, Nursing care should be based on what..? list them. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1.
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EBP
2. strong sense of what is right and wrong
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3. strong sense of what we should be doing, and what we shouldn't be doing
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
4. strong sense of our priorities
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Explain Nursing Decisions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Nurses should be able to
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explain/account for the decisions that they make | | | | | |
True or false: Ethical Dilemmas require debates and time - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-true
What is an ethical issue? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. when you judge what is right
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and wrong
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2. having to choose between two options (both may be wrong)
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3. deciding whether to do something or nothing
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4. weighing up your potential impact of your decisions/action
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Define dilemma - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-making a difficult choice without a clear
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cut option
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True or False: Ethical issues in Health care are not always about the "big" issues -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-true |
