Test Bank for
Essentials of Nursing
Leadership &
Management 7th by
Weiss
, Chapter 2: Professional Ethics and Values
1. Which of the following best describes the ethical concept of values?
A. Values are an individual’s feelings about situations.
B. Values are learned through family systems.
C. Values are organized ways of thinking about the meaning of life.
D. Values determine the rightness or wrongness of behavior.
Answer:
2. Which of the following best describes intrinsic values?
A. Intrinsic values are often abstract ideas.
B. Intrinsic values are basic needs for sustaining life.
C. Intrinsic values are qualities patients consider to be important in their private
lives.
D. Intrinsic values are qualities patients consider important for nurses to have.
Answer:
3. Values are learned through which of the following methods?
A. Reading books
B. Formal degrees
C. Continuous reinforcement
D. Meeting diverse individuals
Answer:
4. Which of the following statements about ethical principles and laws is true?
A. The government holds the power to enforce ethics.
B. Laws provide standards that assist in decision making.
C. Ethics are very specific.
D. As a standard for measuring actions, ethical principles may be the basis for laws.
Answer:
5. A registered nurse (RN) is caring for a patient who is one of Jehovah’s Witnesses and has
refused a blood transfusion even though her hemoglobin is dangerously low. After providing
information about all the alternatives available and risks and benefits of each, the health-care
provider allows the patient to determine which course of treatment she would prefer. The RN
knows this is an example of which ethical principle?
A. Autonomy
B. Nonmaleficence
Essentials of Nursing
Leadership &
Management 7th by
Weiss
, Chapter 2: Professional Ethics and Values
1. Which of the following best describes the ethical concept of values?
A. Values are an individual’s feelings about situations.
B. Values are learned through family systems.
C. Values are organized ways of thinking about the meaning of life.
D. Values determine the rightness or wrongness of behavior.
Answer:
2. Which of the following best describes intrinsic values?
A. Intrinsic values are often abstract ideas.
B. Intrinsic values are basic needs for sustaining life.
C. Intrinsic values are qualities patients consider to be important in their private
lives.
D. Intrinsic values are qualities patients consider important for nurses to have.
Answer:
3. Values are learned through which of the following methods?
A. Reading books
B. Formal degrees
C. Continuous reinforcement
D. Meeting diverse individuals
Answer:
4. Which of the following statements about ethical principles and laws is true?
A. The government holds the power to enforce ethics.
B. Laws provide standards that assist in decision making.
C. Ethics are very specific.
D. As a standard for measuring actions, ethical principles may be the basis for laws.
Answer:
5. A registered nurse (RN) is caring for a patient who is one of Jehovah’s Witnesses and has
refused a blood transfusion even though her hemoglobin is dangerously low. After providing
information about all the alternatives available and risks and benefits of each, the health-care
provider allows the patient to determine which course of treatment she would prefer. The RN
knows this is an example of which ethical principle?
A. Autonomy
B. Nonmaleficence
