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NU-317 Study (Mid-term & FInal)
Questions and Answers
Nurses must collaborate effectively with patients to find treatment methods that are congruent with the
patients' belief systems and that promote healthy outcomes. This approach requires: - Ans:✔✔-listening
carefully to how the patient's beliefs impact their health beliefs.
Four patients in labor request epidural analgesia to manage their pain at the same time. Which ethical
principle is compromised when only one nurse anesthetist is on call? - Ans:✔✔-Justice
A nurse's use of ethical responsibility can best be seen in which of the following nursing actions? -
Ans:✔✔-delivery of competent care
The five rights of delegation include: - Ans:✔✔-right task, right circumstance, right person, right
direction, and right supervision
A nursing student is preparing study notes from a recent lecture in nursing history. The student would
credit Florence Nightingale for which definition of nursing? - Ans:✔✔-The imbalance between the
patient and the environment decreases the capacity for health.
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Each state has a nurse practice act that establishes the standards of care required for legal nursing
practice. In order to protect herself/himself from litigation, the nurse should understand that: - Ans:✔✔-
keeping current with changing laws can protect the nurse.
The Code of Ethics for Nurses is: - Ans:✔✔-a succinct statement of ethical obligations.
Starting an intravenous (IV) infusion line on a patient against his will may be classified as: - Ans:✔✔-
battery.
Which of the following statements indicates an appropriate understanding by the student nurse (SN)? -
Ans:✔✔-"I will be held to the same ethical standards as professional nurses."
Which of the following is NOT one of the AACN Standards for Establishing and Sustaining Healthy Work
Environments? - Ans:✔✔-Interdisciplinary Collaboration
"First, do no harm" defines what ethical principle? - Ans:✔✔-Nonmaleficence
Which concept means that the nurse is responsible, professionally and legally, for the type and quality of
nursing care provided? - Ans:✔✔-Accountability
Who is ultimately responsible for explaining the content of the informed consent? - Ans:✔✔-The
provider of the procedure
The AACN Standards for Establishing and Sustaining Healthy Work Environments were developed as a
result of all of the following EXCEPT:
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