C HAPTER 6: A DVOCACY , E THICAL , AND
L EGAL C ONSIDERATIONS
Community Health Nursing A Canadian Perspective 5th Edition Stamler
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which statement provides the best definition of ethics?
a. Universally held theory on how the world evolved
b. A set of rules that apply only to health care professionals in the practice
setting
c. Values, norms, moral principles, virtues, and traditions that guide human
conduct
d. A specialized area of philosophy
Correct Answer: c (page 88)
2. Jack, 14 years old, presents at the community health nurses office requesting an
initial immunization series. His parents have never immunized him because they
do not believe in immunization. Jack’s parents did not sign the immun ization
consent form sent home from school. What does this situation present for the
nurse?
a. Something that never happens in Canada
b. An issue for feminist decision-making
c. An ethical dilemma
d. A course of action that is easily decided and recognized
Correct Answer: c (page 90)
,3. What is an example of social control?
a. Smoking cessation program
b. Influenza immunization clinics
c. Request to stay at home when ill with the flu
d. Seatbelt law
Correct Answer: d (page 91)
4. Which scenario represents the principle of reciprocity in ethical decision -making
about public health interventions?
a. All stakeholders are involved with developing policy on how to manage a
particular infectious disease
b. An individual is committed under the Mental Health Act to protect and
prevent harm to others
c. A person who is exposed to a communicable disease is provided
instructions on how to quarantine at home
d. The public health department is providing financial compensation to a
person who is quarantined
Correct Answer: d (page 92)
5. What does the concept of social justice assume?
a. There is a limit to collective action
b. All societies experience broad, systematic oppression and inequities
c. The individual is valued over the collective
d. It is better to benefit the few than the disadvantaged many
Correct Answer: b (page 89)
,6. Which situation has undergone medicalization?
a. Menopause
b. Breast cancer
c. Homosexuality
d. Hyperthyroidism
Correct Answer: c (page 91)
7. What statement is congruent with capacity building?
a. Equitable sharing of rights, roles, and responsibilities among institutions
and individuals
b. Just or fair treatment of all individuals, including equitable access to meet
health needs
c. Democracy and civil rights defining a social state in which all have equal
rights
d. Strengthening of individual and institutional core skills, capabilities and
knowledge
Correct Answer: d (page 95)
8. What term describes the way that nurses approach their practice and refle ct on
their ethical commitment to their clients and colleagues?
a. Committed ethics
b. Situational autonomy
c. Empowering a community
d. Everyday ethics
Correct answer: d (page 90)
, 9. What nursing action best demonstrates professional responsibility and
accountability?
a. Respecting a client’s wishes not to inform her boyfriend that she has
gonorrhea
b. Keeping a confidential client’s repeated statements that she wants to kill
her husband
c. Documenting home visit notes in a timely and thorough manner
d. Protecting the identity of a child who reveals that she has been abused
Correct answer: c (page 97)
10. Which Canadian Community Health Nursing Standard of Practice is being used
when advocating for appropriate resource allocation?
a. Facilitating access and equity
b. Practice setting safety
c. Empowering communities
d. Maintaining professional boundaries
Correct answer: a (page 96)
11. Which statement reflects the World Health Organization’s (2013) definition of
empowerment?
a. A professional process in which communities are allowed to become self-
directed
b. A static process that provides people with power
c. A nurse-driven process whereby people are given what they need
d. A process where people and communities move toward increased control
Correct answer: d (page 95)
L EGAL C ONSIDERATIONS
Community Health Nursing A Canadian Perspective 5th Edition Stamler
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which statement provides the best definition of ethics?
a. Universally held theory on how the world evolved
b. A set of rules that apply only to health care professionals in the practice
setting
c. Values, norms, moral principles, virtues, and traditions that guide human
conduct
d. A specialized area of philosophy
Correct Answer: c (page 88)
2. Jack, 14 years old, presents at the community health nurses office requesting an
initial immunization series. His parents have never immunized him because they
do not believe in immunization. Jack’s parents did not sign the immun ization
consent form sent home from school. What does this situation present for the
nurse?
a. Something that never happens in Canada
b. An issue for feminist decision-making
c. An ethical dilemma
d. A course of action that is easily decided and recognized
Correct Answer: c (page 90)
,3. What is an example of social control?
a. Smoking cessation program
b. Influenza immunization clinics
c. Request to stay at home when ill with the flu
d. Seatbelt law
Correct Answer: d (page 91)
4. Which scenario represents the principle of reciprocity in ethical decision -making
about public health interventions?
a. All stakeholders are involved with developing policy on how to manage a
particular infectious disease
b. An individual is committed under the Mental Health Act to protect and
prevent harm to others
c. A person who is exposed to a communicable disease is provided
instructions on how to quarantine at home
d. The public health department is providing financial compensation to a
person who is quarantined
Correct Answer: d (page 92)
5. What does the concept of social justice assume?
a. There is a limit to collective action
b. All societies experience broad, systematic oppression and inequities
c. The individual is valued over the collective
d. It is better to benefit the few than the disadvantaged many
Correct Answer: b (page 89)
,6. Which situation has undergone medicalization?
a. Menopause
b. Breast cancer
c. Homosexuality
d. Hyperthyroidism
Correct Answer: c (page 91)
7. What statement is congruent with capacity building?
a. Equitable sharing of rights, roles, and responsibilities among institutions
and individuals
b. Just or fair treatment of all individuals, including equitable access to meet
health needs
c. Democracy and civil rights defining a social state in which all have equal
rights
d. Strengthening of individual and institutional core skills, capabilities and
knowledge
Correct Answer: d (page 95)
8. What term describes the way that nurses approach their practice and refle ct on
their ethical commitment to their clients and colleagues?
a. Committed ethics
b. Situational autonomy
c. Empowering a community
d. Everyday ethics
Correct answer: d (page 90)
, 9. What nursing action best demonstrates professional responsibility and
accountability?
a. Respecting a client’s wishes not to inform her boyfriend that she has
gonorrhea
b. Keeping a confidential client’s repeated statements that she wants to kill
her husband
c. Documenting home visit notes in a timely and thorough manner
d. Protecting the identity of a child who reveals that she has been abused
Correct answer: c (page 97)
10. Which Canadian Community Health Nursing Standard of Practice is being used
when advocating for appropriate resource allocation?
a. Facilitating access and equity
b. Practice setting safety
c. Empowering communities
d. Maintaining professional boundaries
Correct answer: a (page 96)
11. Which statement reflects the World Health Organization’s (2013) definition of
empowerment?
a. A professional process in which communities are allowed to become self-
directed
b. A static process that provides people with power
c. A nurse-driven process whereby people are given what they need
d. A process where people and communities move toward increased control
Correct answer: d (page 95)
