NCLEX STYLE REVIEW QUESTIONS FOR NURSE PROCESS, LEGAL, PROFESSIONALISM, AND ETHICS 2022/23 Practice Exam Questions with COMPLETE SOLUTION

A nurse informs the patient's health care provider that the patient is refusing potentially life saving surgery. In this situation, which ethical principle is the nurse using? Beneficence Nonmaleficence Autonomy Justice - Autonomy Using the principle of autonomy allows individuals to have the right to determine their own actions and make their own choices. Calling the health care provider to report the patient's refusal of surgery demonstrates the nurse's use of autonomy to guide practice. Beneficence is frequently described as "the doing of good." Nonmaleficence is the duty to do no harm. A description of justice includes patients with the same diagnosis and health care needs receiving the same care. On a medical unit, several patients are being treated for Hepatitis B infection. One of the patients contracted Hepatitis B through using infected needles associated with heroin use. Another of the patients contracted Hepatitis B through a blood transfusion following a car accident. Several of the employees on the unit treat the patient who used heroin rudely and delay their attention to the patient's requests. The nurse intervenes and reminds the staff to use which ethical principle?