NURS 215: COMPREHENSIVE FINAL
EXAM WITH CORRECCT
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
Fundamental values or assumptions about the way individuals should
be treated and cared for. These include autonomy, beneficence,
nonmaleficence, justice, fidelity, and veracity. - CORRECT-
ANSWERSmoral or ethical principles
The willingness to do what is right despite the fear of consequences. -
CORRECT-ANSWERSmoral courage
Feeling of powerlessness to do what is right and ethical. - CORRECT-
ANSWERSmoral distress
A process of considering and selecting approaches to resolve ethical
issues. - CORRECT-ANSWERSmoral reasoning
A situation that exists when the individual is unsure which moral
principles or values apply in a given situation. - CORRECT-
ANSWERSmoral uncertainty
Beliefs that are considered very important and frequently influence an
individual's behavior. - CORRECT-ANSWERSvalues
autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice - CORRECT-
ANSWERSmoral and ethical principles
a patient's right to self-determination without outside control -
CORRECT-ANSWERSautonomy
duty to actively do good for patients - CORRECT-
ANSWERSbeneficence
duty to prevent or avoid doing harm, whether intentional or
unintentional - CORRECT-ANSWERSnonmaleficence
the duty to be faithful to commitments - CORRECT-ANSWERSfidelity
, the duty to treat all patients fairly, without regard to age,
socioeconomic status or other variables - CORRECT-ANSWERSjustice
the duty to tell the truth - CORRECT-ANSWERSveracity
Rules or principles that determine which human actions are right or
wrong. - CORRECT-ANSWERSethics
A situation involving competing rules or principles that appears to have
no satisfactory solution.
A choice between two or more equally undesirable alternatives. -
CORRECT-ANSWERSethical dilemma
Identify which principle of ethics applies to this situation. A patient has
advance directives that clearly indicate no tube feedings. The patient
is unconscious and the family is demanding a feeding tube be placed
because the patient has not eaten in 3 days. The nurse gently reminds
the family of the patient's wishes expressed in the advanced directive
document.
- Autonomy
- Beneficence and nonmaleficence
- Veracity
- None of the above - CORRECT-ANSWERSA. Autonomy
Identify which principle of ethics applies to this situation. A ninety-
eight-year-old widowed female patient is admitted to the ED with
pneumonia. The patient has no family, nor advance directives. The
patient goes into cardiac arrest, and no resuscitation efforts are
attempted.
Autonomy
Beneficence and nonmaleficence
Veracity
, None of the above - CORRECT-ANSWERSB. Beneficence and
nonmaleficence
A patient has been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer and the
prognosis is only 4-6 months to live. The nurse and doctor come to the
patient together to inform the patient of the diagnosis and prognosis.
Autonomy
Beneficence and nonmaleficence
Veracity
None of the above - CORRECT-ANSWERSC. Veracity
List the four concepts of the metaparadigm of nursing. - CORRECT-
ANSWERSnursing, person, health, and environment
set of correlated concepts, definitions and propositions that present a
systemic way of viewing facts/events by specifying relations among
the variables with the purpose of explaining and predicting the fact
event - CORRECT-ANSWERStheory
includes lectures, online activities, assignments and clinical
experiences such as planning, nursing care, writing a paper on
professional ethics, learning steps of a physical examination of a
healthy child, starting an intravenous line, practicing communication
skills - CORRECT-ANSWERSformal socialization
includes lectures that occur incidentally, such as the unplanned
observation of a nurse teaching a young mother how to care for her
premature infant, participating in a student nurse association or
hearing nurses discuss patient care in the nurses' lounge - CORRECT-
ANSWERSinformal socialization
When did Congress first enact legislation to provide support for nursing
education ? - CORRECT-ANSWERSDuring World War II
The move toward formal nursing education came after which war? -
CORRECT-ANSWERSThe Civil War
EXAM WITH CORRECCT
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
Fundamental values or assumptions about the way individuals should
be treated and cared for. These include autonomy, beneficence,
nonmaleficence, justice, fidelity, and veracity. - CORRECT-
ANSWERSmoral or ethical principles
The willingness to do what is right despite the fear of consequences. -
CORRECT-ANSWERSmoral courage
Feeling of powerlessness to do what is right and ethical. - CORRECT-
ANSWERSmoral distress
A process of considering and selecting approaches to resolve ethical
issues. - CORRECT-ANSWERSmoral reasoning
A situation that exists when the individual is unsure which moral
principles or values apply in a given situation. - CORRECT-
ANSWERSmoral uncertainty
Beliefs that are considered very important and frequently influence an
individual's behavior. - CORRECT-ANSWERSvalues
autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice - CORRECT-
ANSWERSmoral and ethical principles
a patient's right to self-determination without outside control -
CORRECT-ANSWERSautonomy
duty to actively do good for patients - CORRECT-
ANSWERSbeneficence
duty to prevent or avoid doing harm, whether intentional or
unintentional - CORRECT-ANSWERSnonmaleficence
the duty to be faithful to commitments - CORRECT-ANSWERSfidelity
, the duty to treat all patients fairly, without regard to age,
socioeconomic status or other variables - CORRECT-ANSWERSjustice
the duty to tell the truth - CORRECT-ANSWERSveracity
Rules or principles that determine which human actions are right or
wrong. - CORRECT-ANSWERSethics
A situation involving competing rules or principles that appears to have
no satisfactory solution.
A choice between two or more equally undesirable alternatives. -
CORRECT-ANSWERSethical dilemma
Identify which principle of ethics applies to this situation. A patient has
advance directives that clearly indicate no tube feedings. The patient
is unconscious and the family is demanding a feeding tube be placed
because the patient has not eaten in 3 days. The nurse gently reminds
the family of the patient's wishes expressed in the advanced directive
document.
- Autonomy
- Beneficence and nonmaleficence
- Veracity
- None of the above - CORRECT-ANSWERSA. Autonomy
Identify which principle of ethics applies to this situation. A ninety-
eight-year-old widowed female patient is admitted to the ED with
pneumonia. The patient has no family, nor advance directives. The
patient goes into cardiac arrest, and no resuscitation efforts are
attempted.
Autonomy
Beneficence and nonmaleficence
Veracity
, None of the above - CORRECT-ANSWERSB. Beneficence and
nonmaleficence
A patient has been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer and the
prognosis is only 4-6 months to live. The nurse and doctor come to the
patient together to inform the patient of the diagnosis and prognosis.
Autonomy
Beneficence and nonmaleficence
Veracity
None of the above - CORRECT-ANSWERSC. Veracity
List the four concepts of the metaparadigm of nursing. - CORRECT-
ANSWERSnursing, person, health, and environment
set of correlated concepts, definitions and propositions that present a
systemic way of viewing facts/events by specifying relations among
the variables with the purpose of explaining and predicting the fact
event - CORRECT-ANSWERStheory
includes lectures, online activities, assignments and clinical
experiences such as planning, nursing care, writing a paper on
professional ethics, learning steps of a physical examination of a
healthy child, starting an intravenous line, practicing communication
skills - CORRECT-ANSWERSformal socialization
includes lectures that occur incidentally, such as the unplanned
observation of a nurse teaching a young mother how to care for her
premature infant, participating in a student nurse association or
hearing nurses discuss patient care in the nurses' lounge - CORRECT-
ANSWERSinformal socialization
When did Congress first enact legislation to provide support for nursing
education ? - CORRECT-ANSWERSDuring World War II
The move toward formal nursing education came after which war? -
CORRECT-ANSWERSThe Civil War
