Nurs 250 Quiz 1 Questions and Answers
Provision 1 ✔✔The nurse practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth,
and unique attributes of every person.
Provision 2 ✔✔The nurse's primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family,
group, community, or population.
Provision 3 ✔✔The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights, health, and safety of
the patient.
Provision 4 ✔✔The nurse has authority, accountability, and responsibility for nursing practice;
makes decisions; and takes action consistent with the obligation to promote health and to
provide optimal care.
Provision 5 ✔✔The nurse owes the same duties to self as to others, including the responsibility
to promote health and safety, preserve wholeness of character and integrity, maintain
competence, and continue personal and professional growth.
Provision 6 ✔✔The nurse, through individual and collective effort, establishes, maintains, and
improves the ethical environment of the work setting and conditions of employment that are
conducive to safe, quality health care.
Provision 7 ✔✔The nurse, in all roles and settings, advances the profession through research
and scholarly inquiry, professional standards development, and the generation of both nursing
and health policy.
Provision 8 ✔✔The nurse collaborates with other health professionals and the public to protect
human rights, promote health diplomacy, and reduce health disparities.
, Provision 9 ✔✔The profession of nursing, collectively through its professional organizations,
must articulate nursing values, maintain the integrity of the profession, and integrate principles
of social justice into nursing and health policy.
Code of ethics ✔✔establishes ethical standards and guide for nurses to use
Define ethics ✔✔-Evaluating human action
-Science or study of moral values
Autonomy ✔✔right to self-determination
Example of autonomy ✔✔Informed consent, respecting refusal of medication
Beneficence ✔✔Obligation to do good, not harm
Example of beneficence ✔✔Provide timely care for a patient in shock, report a threat of suicide
Nonmaleficence ✔✔Prohibition of intentional harm
Example of nonmaleficence ✔✔Nurse reporting a coworker that has drug/alcohol impairment
Justice ✔✔fairness and being equitable
Example of justice ✔✔Who gets a transplant or transfusion in a shortage?
Fidelity ✔✔Obligation to be faithful to agreements, commitments and responsibilities
Provision 1 ✔✔The nurse practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth,
and unique attributes of every person.
Provision 2 ✔✔The nurse's primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family,
group, community, or population.
Provision 3 ✔✔The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights, health, and safety of
the patient.
Provision 4 ✔✔The nurse has authority, accountability, and responsibility for nursing practice;
makes decisions; and takes action consistent with the obligation to promote health and to
provide optimal care.
Provision 5 ✔✔The nurse owes the same duties to self as to others, including the responsibility
to promote health and safety, preserve wholeness of character and integrity, maintain
competence, and continue personal and professional growth.
Provision 6 ✔✔The nurse, through individual and collective effort, establishes, maintains, and
improves the ethical environment of the work setting and conditions of employment that are
conducive to safe, quality health care.
Provision 7 ✔✔The nurse, in all roles and settings, advances the profession through research
and scholarly inquiry, professional standards development, and the generation of both nursing
and health policy.
Provision 8 ✔✔The nurse collaborates with other health professionals and the public to protect
human rights, promote health diplomacy, and reduce health disparities.
, Provision 9 ✔✔The profession of nursing, collectively through its professional organizations,
must articulate nursing values, maintain the integrity of the profession, and integrate principles
of social justice into nursing and health policy.
Code of ethics ✔✔establishes ethical standards and guide for nurses to use
Define ethics ✔✔-Evaluating human action
-Science or study of moral values
Autonomy ✔✔right to self-determination
Example of autonomy ✔✔Informed consent, respecting refusal of medication
Beneficence ✔✔Obligation to do good, not harm
Example of beneficence ✔✔Provide timely care for a patient in shock, report a threat of suicide
Nonmaleficence ✔✔Prohibition of intentional harm
Example of nonmaleficence ✔✔Nurse reporting a coworker that has drug/alcohol impairment
Justice ✔✔fairness and being equitable
Example of justice ✔✔Who gets a transplant or transfusion in a shortage?
Fidelity ✔✔Obligation to be faithful to agreements, commitments and responsibilities
