Nursing 304 Exam 1 – Study Guide and Exam Review Material
Beneficence - correct answer ✔✔Active goodness or kindness
Fidelity - correct answer ✔✔Something that is promised
Justice - correct answer ✔✔Fair
Nonmalfeciance - correct answer ✔✔Do no harm
Veracity - correct answer ✔✔Truthfulness
Autonomy - correct answer ✔✔Self governing
Code of Ethics - correct answer ✔✔Guide for carrying out nursing responsibilities in a manner
consistent with quality in nursing care and the ethical obligations of the profession
Informed Consent - correct answer ✔✔Is a process for getting permission before conducting a
healthcare intervention on a person. The Doctor is the only one to get informed consent for the
procedure to be preformed. The nurse may witness. The patient or their POA/guardian nut be
awake, alert and oriented.
Ethical Principles - correct answer ✔✔Autonomy
Nonmaleficence
Beneficence
Justice
Fidelity
, Veracity
Physicians Orders - correct answer ✔✔With accountability the nurse has the right to not follow
physicians orders if the nurse feels it is detrimental to the patient. The nurse has the
responsibility to make the doctor aware. If the doctor is not aware the nurse manager/
supervisor must be aware.
Ethics - correct answer ✔✔When a client is in need of care the nurse does not have the right to
refuse care gloving, unless the risk to the nurse is higher than the responsibility
Assault - correct answer ✔✔Threat of violence is enough to constitute assault; no physical
contact is necessary.
Battery - correct answer ✔✔Physical contact is mandatory
Slander - correct answer ✔✔Oral defamation, in which someone tells one or more persons an
untruth about another
Negligence - correct answer ✔✔A failure to behave with the level of care that someone of
ordinary prudence would have exercised under the same circumstances.
Libel - correct answer ✔✔The act of publishing or BROADCASTING facts that are not true and
damage a persons reputation
LAW - correct answer ✔✔Patients have the right to make their own decisions
As a nurse you are responsible to report any actions by anyone that would cause harm to any
patient
Beneficence - correct answer ✔✔Active goodness or kindness
Fidelity - correct answer ✔✔Something that is promised
Justice - correct answer ✔✔Fair
Nonmalfeciance - correct answer ✔✔Do no harm
Veracity - correct answer ✔✔Truthfulness
Autonomy - correct answer ✔✔Self governing
Code of Ethics - correct answer ✔✔Guide for carrying out nursing responsibilities in a manner
consistent with quality in nursing care and the ethical obligations of the profession
Informed Consent - correct answer ✔✔Is a process for getting permission before conducting a
healthcare intervention on a person. The Doctor is the only one to get informed consent for the
procedure to be preformed. The nurse may witness. The patient or their POA/guardian nut be
awake, alert and oriented.
Ethical Principles - correct answer ✔✔Autonomy
Nonmaleficence
Beneficence
Justice
Fidelity
, Veracity
Physicians Orders - correct answer ✔✔With accountability the nurse has the right to not follow
physicians orders if the nurse feels it is detrimental to the patient. The nurse has the
responsibility to make the doctor aware. If the doctor is not aware the nurse manager/
supervisor must be aware.
Ethics - correct answer ✔✔When a client is in need of care the nurse does not have the right to
refuse care gloving, unless the risk to the nurse is higher than the responsibility
Assault - correct answer ✔✔Threat of violence is enough to constitute assault; no physical
contact is necessary.
Battery - correct answer ✔✔Physical contact is mandatory
Slander - correct answer ✔✔Oral defamation, in which someone tells one or more persons an
untruth about another
Negligence - correct answer ✔✔A failure to behave with the level of care that someone of
ordinary prudence would have exercised under the same circumstances.
Libel - correct answer ✔✔The act of publishing or BROADCASTING facts that are not true and
damage a persons reputation
LAW - correct answer ✔✔Patients have the right to make their own decisions
As a nurse you are responsible to report any actions by anyone that would cause harm to any
patient
