COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
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1. What are some of the current trends in Canadian
healthcare? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ Trends in
Canadian healthcare include the growing number of
infectious diseases, rising healthcare costs, increasing
disparities between economic classes, changing
demographics, advances in technology, the use of
unregulated healthcare providers, evidence-based
practice, and a shift towards shorter hospital stays and a
customer-service approach.
2. What is the history of the Canadian healthcare system? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ The Canadian healthcare
system has a history that dates back to 1867, with
provincial governments responsible for managing
hospitals and charities. The federal government has
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, jurisdiction over marine hospitals and quarantine.
Significant developments include the introduction of
medicare and the establishment of the Canadian Health
Care Act in the 1960s and 1980s. There have been
challenges, such as the Tainted Blood
Scandal and the impact of diseases like SARS.
3. What are values in the context of nursing? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔ Values are strong personal beliefs that
influence behavior and are formed through upbringing,
culture, and experiences.
4. What is the definition of ethics in healthcare? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ Ethics, also known as
morality, involves the study of good conduct, character,
and motives. It determines what is good or valuable for
individuals and society.
5. What are the principles of bioethics? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔ The principles of bioethics include
autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice.
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,6. What are the seven important values in nursing
identified by the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO)? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ The values are client well-
being, client choice, privacy and confidentiality, respect
for life and quality of life, maintaining commitments,
truthfulness, and fairness.
7. What is an ethical dilemma in nursing practice? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ Ethical dilemmas are common
in nursing practice and may involve decisions about life-
prolonging treatment, initiation or termination of life
support or treatment, and medical assistance in dying
(MAID).
8. What distinguishes a nursing profession from an
occupation? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ Factors such as
expertise, extended education, a theoretical body of
knowledge, individual accountability, and the presence of
values, beliefs, and ethics.
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, 9. .What are the professional standards established by the
College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO)? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔ The standards include accountability,
continuing competence, ethics, knowledge, knowledge
application, leadership, and relationships.
10. 18.What legislation affects practicing nurses in Ontario?
- CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔ The legislation includes the Regulated Health
Professions Act, the Nursing Act, and federal and
provincial laws.
11. 19. What is the role of the College of Nurses of Ontario
(CNO)? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ The CNO is a
statutory governing body that protects the public's
interest in the nursing profession, establishing
requirements for entry to practice, promoting practice
and professional standards, and administering a Quality
Assurance
Program.
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