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EthicsandIssuesinContemporaryNursing3rdEdition
byMargaretA.Burkhardt, NancyWalton,AllChapters 1-20
,TABLEOFCONTENTS
Part I: Guides for Principled Behavior
1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of Nursing
2. Ethical Theory
3. Ethical Principles
Part II: Developing Principled Behavior
4. Values Clarification
5. Values Development
6. Ethics and Professional Nursing
7. Ethical Decision Making
Part III: Principled Behavior in the Professional Domain
8. Legal Issues
9. Professional Relationship Issues
10. Practice Issues Related to Technology
11. Practice Issues Related to Patient Self-Determination
12. Scholarship Issues
Part IV: Global Issues that Interface withNursing Practice
13. Global Consciousness in the Twenty-First Century
14. Health Policy Issues
15. Economic Issues
16. Social Issues
17. Gender Issues
18. Transcultural andSpiritual Issues
Part V: The Power toMake a Difference
19. Empowerment for Nurses
20. Facilitating Patient Empowerment
,1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of Nursing
Multiple Choice
1. For which ofthe following is empathy a motive?
a. meetingthe needs ofothers
b. moralreasoningandaction
c. becominganurse
d. determining rightfromwrong
ANSWER: b
2. Whichofthe following isanexample ofsocial need as anethical foundation fornursing?
a. Nursesmustdetermine thehealthand social needs ofsociety.
b. Nursingfindsitsorigin,purpose,andmeaningwithinthecontextofperceivedsocialneed.
c. Theoriesofsocial needinsociology areutilizedbynursingscholars, manyofwhomviewthemas conceptual
frameworks for nursing practice.
d. Socialneeddeterminestheboundaries oftheethicalprinciples ofdistributivejustice,beneficence, and non-
maleficence.
ANSWER: b
3. Whatis themostcritical factorthat influences nursing practice?
a. the traditional roleofhealers
b. the role ofwomen in society
c. thereligious andspiritual aspectsofhealth care
d. the introduction ofmale nurses into the profession
ANSWER: b
4. Whydoes the socialstatusofwomen affect thestatus ofthe nursing profession?
a. Nursinghas traditionallybeenaprofessionofwomen.
b. Throughouthistory,nurseshavebeenaffordedhighersocialstatus.
c. Womenofhighersocialstatus rarelybecomenurses.
d. Womenaremore skilled thanmen at nurturing others.
ANSWER: a
5. Whathistoricalinfluences affectednursingasamoral discipline?
a. technology
b. society
c. spirituality
d. oppression
ANSWER: c
6. Whatis thetermthat relates toknowledge gainedthroughobservation andexperience?
a. empirical
b. Cartesianphilosophy
, c. values
d. moralthought
ANSWER: a
7. Whichofthe followingisanexampleofthe significanceofNursing during the Middle Ages ?
a. Religiousnursingordersandchurch-sanctionedsecularnursingordersofferedtheonlylegitimate avenues
for women wishing to become nurses.
b. Increasingrespectwasgiventonursingandmidwifery,asnurses begantopractiseautonomously.
c. HealingartsinDenmarkandGreecewereperformedinsacredceremonies bypriests,priestesses,or shamans.
d. Mostnurses werewomen ofhighsocialstatusseekingways tolegitimizetheir positionand status.
ANSWER: a
8. Whatdoes thetermempiricalrelate to?
a. servingGod and thy neighbourthe best way onecan
b. knowledgegainedthroughobservationandexperience
c. healingthroughreligiousintervention,chanting,andpraying
d. theenforcement ofreligious doctrinerelated to the status ofwomen in society
ANSWER: b
9. Whenwasthe“DarkPeriodofNursing,”whenconvalescentpatients,prostitutes,prisoners,anddrunkards provided
hospital nursing care?
a. during the Reformation
b. during the Crusades
c. duringthe Middle Ages
d. during theearly Christian era
ANSWER: a
10. Whichofthe followinghadthe greatest influenceonnursing traditions inCanada?
a. Britain
b. indigenouspersons
c. France
d. Germany
ANSWER: c
11. Whichofthefollowing hadthegreatest influence onestablishing thefirst hospital intheNewWorld?
a. MarieRollet Hebert
b. Marguerited’Youville
c. JeanneMance
d. ReneeDescartes
ANSWER: c
EthicsandIssuesinContemporaryNursing3rdEdition
byMargaretA.Burkhardt, NancyWalton,AllChapters 1-20
,TABLEOFCONTENTS
Part I: Guides for Principled Behavior
1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of Nursing
2. Ethical Theory
3. Ethical Principles
Part II: Developing Principled Behavior
4. Values Clarification
5. Values Development
6. Ethics and Professional Nursing
7. Ethical Decision Making
Part III: Principled Behavior in the Professional Domain
8. Legal Issues
9. Professional Relationship Issues
10. Practice Issues Related to Technology
11. Practice Issues Related to Patient Self-Determination
12. Scholarship Issues
Part IV: Global Issues that Interface withNursing Practice
13. Global Consciousness in the Twenty-First Century
14. Health Policy Issues
15. Economic Issues
16. Social Issues
17. Gender Issues
18. Transcultural andSpiritual Issues
Part V: The Power toMake a Difference
19. Empowerment for Nurses
20. Facilitating Patient Empowerment
,1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of Nursing
Multiple Choice
1. For which ofthe following is empathy a motive?
a. meetingthe needs ofothers
b. moralreasoningandaction
c. becominganurse
d. determining rightfromwrong
ANSWER: b
2. Whichofthe following isanexample ofsocial need as anethical foundation fornursing?
a. Nursesmustdetermine thehealthand social needs ofsociety.
b. Nursingfindsitsorigin,purpose,andmeaningwithinthecontextofperceivedsocialneed.
c. Theoriesofsocial needinsociology areutilizedbynursingscholars, manyofwhomviewthemas conceptual
frameworks for nursing practice.
d. Socialneeddeterminestheboundaries oftheethicalprinciples ofdistributivejustice,beneficence, and non-
maleficence.
ANSWER: b
3. Whatis themostcritical factorthat influences nursing practice?
a. the traditional roleofhealers
b. the role ofwomen in society
c. thereligious andspiritual aspectsofhealth care
d. the introduction ofmale nurses into the profession
ANSWER: b
4. Whydoes the socialstatusofwomen affect thestatus ofthe nursing profession?
a. Nursinghas traditionallybeenaprofessionofwomen.
b. Throughouthistory,nurseshavebeenaffordedhighersocialstatus.
c. Womenofhighersocialstatus rarelybecomenurses.
d. Womenaremore skilled thanmen at nurturing others.
ANSWER: a
5. Whathistoricalinfluences affectednursingasamoral discipline?
a. technology
b. society
c. spirituality
d. oppression
ANSWER: c
6. Whatis thetermthat relates toknowledge gainedthroughobservation andexperience?
a. empirical
b. Cartesianphilosophy
, c. values
d. moralthought
ANSWER: a
7. Whichofthe followingisanexampleofthe significanceofNursing during the Middle Ages ?
a. Religiousnursingordersandchurch-sanctionedsecularnursingordersofferedtheonlylegitimate avenues
for women wishing to become nurses.
b. Increasingrespectwasgiventonursingandmidwifery,asnurses begantopractiseautonomously.
c. HealingartsinDenmarkandGreecewereperformedinsacredceremonies bypriests,priestesses,or shamans.
d. Mostnurses werewomen ofhighsocialstatusseekingways tolegitimizetheir positionand status.
ANSWER: a
8. Whatdoes thetermempiricalrelate to?
a. servingGod and thy neighbourthe best way onecan
b. knowledgegainedthroughobservationandexperience
c. healingthroughreligiousintervention,chanting,andpraying
d. theenforcement ofreligious doctrinerelated to the status ofwomen in society
ANSWER: b
9. Whenwasthe“DarkPeriodofNursing,”whenconvalescentpatients,prostitutes,prisoners,anddrunkards provided
hospital nursing care?
a. during the Reformation
b. during the Crusades
c. duringthe Middle Ages
d. during theearly Christian era
ANSWER: a
10. Whichofthe followinghadthe greatest influenceonnursing traditions inCanada?
a. Britain
b. indigenouspersons
c. France
d. Germany
ANSWER: c
11. Whichofthefollowing hadthegreatest influence onestablishing thefirst hospital intheNewWorld?
a. MarieRollet Hebert
b. Marguerited’Youville
c. JeanneMance
d. ReneeDescartes
ANSWER: c
