Test Bank Brunner & Suddarths Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing 13th
Edition
Test Bank Brunner & Suddarth’s
Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing
13th Edition
Sample Test
Chapter 03
1. A nurse has been offered a position on an obstetric unit and has
learned that t which contradicts the nurse’s personal beliefs. What
the nurse’s ethical oblig
A) The nurse should adhere to professional standards of
practice and
B) The nurse should make the choice to decline this position
and purs
C) The nurse should decline to care for the patients
considering aborti
D) The nurse should express alternatives to women
considering termin
Ans: B
Feedback:
To avoid facing ethical dilemmas, nurses can follow certain
strategies. For exa questions regarding the patient population. If a
nurse is uncomfortable with a p
,Test Bank Brunner & Suddarths Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing 13th
Edition
would be the best option. The nurse is only required by law (and
practice stan accepts; the nurse may not discriminate between
patients and the nurse expre option is inappropriate.
A terminally ill patient you are caring for is complaining of pain. Th
physician
2. continuous infusion. You know that one of the adverse effects of
this medicine patient’s respiratory status, you find that the rate ha
decreased from 16 breat
should you take?
A) Decrease the rate of IV infusion.
B) Stimulate the patient in order to increase respiratory rate
C) Report the decreased respiratory rate to the physician.
D) Allow the patient to rest comfortably.
Ans: C
Feedback:
End-of life issues that often involve ethical dilemmas include pa
control, “do administration of food and fluids. The risk of respirato
depression is not the i depression should not be used as an excu
to withhold pain medication for a should be carefully monitored a
any changes should be reported to the phys
An adult patient has requested a “do not resuscitate” (DNR) order
light of hi
3. The patient’s son and daughter-in-law are strongly opposed to the
patient’s re nurse in this situation?
A) Perform a “slow code” until a decision is made.
,Test Bank Brunner & Suddarths Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing 13th
Edition
B) Honor the request of the patient.
, Test Bank Brunner & Suddarths Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing 13th
Edition
C) Contact a social worker or mediator to intervene.
D) Temporarily withhold nursing care until the physician
talks to the fa Ans: B
Feedback:
The nurse must honor the patient’s wishes and continue to provide
required nu physician may lead to further communication with the
family, during which the normally appropriate for the nurse to seek
the assistance of a social worker or
4. An elderly patient is admitted to your unit with a diagnosis of
community-acqui states, “I have a living will.” What implication of
this should the nurse recognize
A) This document is always honored, regardless of
circumstances.
B) This document specifies the patient’s wishes before
hospitalization.
C) This document that is binding for the duration of the
patient’s life.
D) This document has been drawn up by the patient’s family
to determ
Ans: B
Feedback:
A living will is one type of advance directive. In most situation
living wills are condition is deemed terminal. The other answers ar
incorrect because living for the duration of the patient’s life, an
they are not drawn up by the patient’s
Edition
Test Bank Brunner & Suddarth’s
Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing
13th Edition
Sample Test
Chapter 03
1. A nurse has been offered a position on an obstetric unit and has
learned that t which contradicts the nurse’s personal beliefs. What
the nurse’s ethical oblig
A) The nurse should adhere to professional standards of
practice and
B) The nurse should make the choice to decline this position
and purs
C) The nurse should decline to care for the patients
considering aborti
D) The nurse should express alternatives to women
considering termin
Ans: B
Feedback:
To avoid facing ethical dilemmas, nurses can follow certain
strategies. For exa questions regarding the patient population. If a
nurse is uncomfortable with a p
,Test Bank Brunner & Suddarths Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing 13th
Edition
would be the best option. The nurse is only required by law (and
practice stan accepts; the nurse may not discriminate between
patients and the nurse expre option is inappropriate.
A terminally ill patient you are caring for is complaining of pain. Th
physician
2. continuous infusion. You know that one of the adverse effects of
this medicine patient’s respiratory status, you find that the rate ha
decreased from 16 breat
should you take?
A) Decrease the rate of IV infusion.
B) Stimulate the patient in order to increase respiratory rate
C) Report the decreased respiratory rate to the physician.
D) Allow the patient to rest comfortably.
Ans: C
Feedback:
End-of life issues that often involve ethical dilemmas include pa
control, “do administration of food and fluids. The risk of respirato
depression is not the i depression should not be used as an excu
to withhold pain medication for a should be carefully monitored a
any changes should be reported to the phys
An adult patient has requested a “do not resuscitate” (DNR) order
light of hi
3. The patient’s son and daughter-in-law are strongly opposed to the
patient’s re nurse in this situation?
A) Perform a “slow code” until a decision is made.
,Test Bank Brunner & Suddarths Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing 13th
Edition
B) Honor the request of the patient.
, Test Bank Brunner & Suddarths Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing 13th
Edition
C) Contact a social worker or mediator to intervene.
D) Temporarily withhold nursing care until the physician
talks to the fa Ans: B
Feedback:
The nurse must honor the patient’s wishes and continue to provide
required nu physician may lead to further communication with the
family, during which the normally appropriate for the nurse to seek
the assistance of a social worker or
4. An elderly patient is admitted to your unit with a diagnosis of
community-acqui states, “I have a living will.” What implication of
this should the nurse recognize
A) This document is always honored, regardless of
circumstances.
B) This document specifies the patient’s wishes before
hospitalization.
C) This document that is binding for the duration of the
patient’s life.
D) This document has been drawn up by the patient’s family
to determ
Ans: B
Feedback:
A living will is one type of advance directive. In most situation
living wills are condition is deemed terminal. The other answers ar
incorrect because living for the duration of the patient’s life, an
they are not drawn up by the patient’s
