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Part I: Guides for Principled Behavior
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1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of Nursing
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2. Ethical Theory ml
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Part II: Developing Principled Behavior
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4. Values Clarification ml
5. Values Development ml
6. Ethics and Professional Nursing
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7. Ethical Decision Making
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Part III: Principled Behavior in the Professional Domain
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8. Legal Issuesml
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10. Practice Issues Related to Technology ml ml ml ml
11. Practice Issues Related to Patient Self-Determination
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Part IV: Global Issues that Interface with Nursing Practice
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13. Global Consciousness in the Twenty-First Century
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14. Health Policy Issues ml ml
15. Economic Issues ml
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18. Transcultural and Spiritual Issues ml ml ml
Part V: The Power to Make a Difference
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19. Empowerment for Nurses ml ml
20. Facilitating Patient Empowerment ml ml
,1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of Nursing
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1. For which of the following is empathy a motive?
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a. meeting the needs of others ml ml ml ml
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2. Which of the following is an example of social need as an ethical foundation for nursing?
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a. Nurses must determine the health and social needs of society.
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b. Nursing finds its origin, purpose, and meaning within the context of perceived social need.
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c. Theories of social need in sociology are utilized by nursing scholars, many of whom view them as c
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d. Social need determines the boundaries of the ethical principles of distributive justice, beneficence,
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3. What is the most critical factor that influences nursing practice?
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a. the traditional role of healers
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b. the role of women in society
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c. the religious and spiritual aspects of health care
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d. the introduction of male nurses into the profession
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4. Why does the social status of women affect the status of the nursing profession?
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a. Nursing has traditionally been a profession of women.
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c. Women of higher social status rarely become nurses.
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d. Women are more skilled than men at nurturing others.
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5. What historical influences affected nursing as a moral discipline?
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a. technology
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d. oppression
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6. What is the term that relates to knowledge gained through observation and experience?
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7. Which of the following is an example of the significance of Nursing during the Middle Ages ?
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sanctioned secular nursing orders offered the only legitimate avenues for women wishing to beco
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b. Increasing respect was given to nursing and midwifery, as nurses began to practise autonomously.
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c. Healing arts in Denmark and Greece were performed in sacred ceremonies by priests, priestesses, or
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d. Most nurses were women of high social status seeking ways to legitimize their position and status.
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8. What does the term empirical relate to?
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a. serving God and thy neighbour the best way one can
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c. healing through religious intervention, chanting, and praying
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d. the enforcement of religious doctrine related to the status of women in society
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9. When was the“Dark Period of Nursing,” when convalescent patients, prostitutes, prisoners, and drunkards
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provided hospital nursing care?
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10. Which of the following had the greatest influence on nursing traditions in Canada?
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11. Which of the following had the greatest influence on establishing the first hospital in the New World?
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a. Marie Rollet Hebert ml ml
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