Nursing Ethics and Legal Issues
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Nursing Ethics and Legal Issues examines the ethical principles and legal frameworks that guide nursing practice. The course explores topics such as patient rights, informed consent, confidentiality, professional boundaries, and end-of-life care within the healthcare setting. Through the analysis of real-world scenarios and relevant case law, students learn to identify and resolve ethical dilemmas while ensuring compliance with current laws and professional standards. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking, ethical decision-making, and understanding the nurses role in advocating for patients and upholding justice in healthcare environments.
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Professional Nursing Concepts and Challenges 7th Edition by Beth Black RN MSN PhD
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Chapter 1: Nursing Today: A Time of Transformation
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Q1) Which of the following statements is correct about community health nursing (CHN)?
A) Prevention and community education are the cornerstones of CHN.
B) Nursing care is rapidly moving from the home setting to the institutional setting.
C) High-tech care such as ventilators and total parenteral nutrition cannot be handled in the home.
D) Assessment skills are less important in CHN because patients are not acutely ill.
Answer: A
Q2) Despite the variety of work settings available to the RN, data from 2008 indicate that the primary work site for RNs is
A) ambulatory care settings.
B) community health settings.
C) long-term care facilities.
D) acute care hospitals.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The History and Social Context of Nursing
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Q1) Which early nursing leader founded the first training school for nurses that would later become a model for early nursing education?
A) Dorothea Dix
B) Florence Nightingale
C) Clara Barton
D) Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Answer: B
Q2) Despite the caring efforts of early public health nurses in the Henry Street Settlement, racial disparity left many people underserved. Which of the following African-American public health nurses was instrumental in providing excellent nursing care to underserved families despite these social challenges?
A) Jessie Sleet Scales
B) Margaret Sanger
C) Lavinia Lloyd Dock
D) Anita M. McGee
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Nursing's Pathway to Professionalism
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Q1) An important aspect of professionalism is collegiality. Which of the following demonstrates collegiality? (Select all that apply.)
A) Assisting a nurse researcher with data collection related to measuring stress levels in hospitalized children
B) Reporting a nursing assistant to the nurse manager when heart rate was not recorded in a patient
C) Participating in weekly patient care conferences with physicians, social workers, and other therapists
D) Sharing with another nurse that you heard the nurse manager is dating the new physical therapist on the unit
E) Serving as a preceptor to a nurse completing a refresher course to reactivate her nursing license.
Answer: A, C, E
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Chapter 4: Legal Aspects of Nursing
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Q1) A child is tested for genetic abnormalities. After the test results are delivered from the laboratory, a representative of the parents' medical insurance company calls the nurse's station and asks for the results of the tests. The nurse's best response to this request is to
A) refuse to give the information.
B) tell the representative the status of the tests is unknown.
C) give the results as reported because the insurance company is paying for the tests.
D) tell the representative that the test results will need to be obtained from the physician who ordered them.
Q2) Which of the following falls under the jurisdiction of the state board of nursing?
A) Approving or reject applications for new nursing education programs
B) Expanding the provisions of the nurse practice act
C) Reducing the provisions of the nurse practice act
D) Right to suspend the need for licensure of registered nurses (RNs) in times of extreme shortage
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Chapter 5: Ethics: Basic Concepts for Nursing Practice
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Q1) According to Kohlberg's theory of moral development, individuals who act "because it is the rule of society" are operating in which level of moral development?
A) Preconventional
B) Conventional
C) Postconventional
D) Developmental
Q2) Gilligan's theory on moral development differed from Kohlberg's theory because Gilligan considered which population not addressed by Kohlberg?
A) Children
B) Men
C) Women
D) Adolescents
Q3) Respecting an elderly woman's decision to stay in her own home is based on a belief in the ethical principle of A) justice.
B) autonomy.
C) nonmaleficence.
D) death with dignity.
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Chapter 6: Becoming a Nurse: Defining Nursing and
Socialization into Professional Practice
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Q1) The legal definition of nursing for any particular state can be found in the
A) state legislature's official newsletter.
B) state board of nursing's bylaws.
C) governor's official papers.
D) state's nurse practice act.
Q2) Which of the following behaviors of a student indicate that the student has taken responsibility for his or her own professional socialization? (Select all that apply.)
A) Projecting a professional appearance in class
B) Attending class, quietly listening to the lectures
C) Taking responsibility to request alternative dates for examinations in order to work
D) Taking responsibility to learn the expectations of the faculty in each course
E) Accepting constructive criticism without becoming defensive
Q3) Which of the following is an example of Henderson's definition of nursing?
A) Performing a hearing screening in preschool children
B) Interacting with depressed men to learn new strategies for reducing their symptoms
C) Setting goals for weight loss with a patient
D) Teaching a person with frequent constipation about high-fiber foods
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Chapter 7: The Education of Nurses: On the Leading Edge of Transformation
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Q1) The earliest type of formal nursing education program was the A) diploma program.
B) associate degree program.
C) bachelor's degree program.
D) grandfathered acceptance as registered nurse (RN).
Q2) The single most important reason for the decline in the number of hospital-based diploma programs was
A) shift in hospital occupancy from acute care to home care.
B) increase in hospital-based medical residency programs competing for educational dollars.
C) beginning of associate degree programs that were shorter in length.
D) diploma education's position outside the mainstream of higher education.
Q3) Who is credited with developing the model of associate degree nursing education?
A) Esther Lucille Brown
B) Annie W. Goodrich
C) Mildred Montag
D) National League for Nursing
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Chapter 8: Critical Thinking, the Nursing Process, and Clinical Judgment
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Q1) Which of the following statements describes the purpose of the nursing process?
A) Process of documentation designed to decrease liability
B) Process designed to maximize reimbursement potential
C) A sophisticated time-management strategy
D) Process used to identify and solve patient problems
Q2) A nurse is admitting a non-English speaking patient to the hospital unit. Which is the best method of obtaining data from the patient?
A) Asking the other family members to help interpret
B) Performing a physical examination on the patient
C) Interviewing the patient using a professional interpreter
D) Attempting to obtain past medical records for this patient
Q3) A patient is admitted with the diagnosis of bronchitis, congestive heart failure, and fever. The nurse's assessment finds a temperature of 101° F, peripheral edema, and rhonchi. Which of the following is the best etiology to support the nursing diagnosis of ineffective airway clearance?
A) Peripheral edema
B) Retained secretions
C) Bronchitis
D) Congestive heart failure
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Chapter 9: Communication and Collaboration in Nursing
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Q1) The nurse plans to teach a patient about the care of her mastectomy site. The nurse finds the patient crying. The best response by the nurse is,
A) "It is time to discuss how to care for the surgical site."
B) "You seem upset. You should start looking forward to going home and being a wife and mother again."
C) "I see you are upset. Is there something on your mind you'd like to talk about?"
D) "Dr. Abrams said you can go home tomorrow, and we need to talk about the care of your surgical site."
Q2) Which behaviors help patients develop trust in the nurse?
A) Answering questions with authority
B) Sharing personal information to indicate openness
C) Conveying acceptance of the patient and a nonjudgmental attitude
D) Meeting with the patient spontaneously because that indicates caring
Q3) How would a nurse's use of the technique of reflection help a person?
A) Showing an awareness of the person's feelings
B) Causing the person to answer more fully than yes or no
C) Showing knowledge the person is not expected to know
D) Encouraging the person to think through problems for himself or herself
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Chapter 10: Illness, Culture, and Caring: Impact on
Families, and Nurses
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Q1) When planning for patient teaching, the nurse is aware that which of the following factors create(s) a barrier to learning?
A) Mild anxiety
B) Pain and fatigue
C) Family presence
D) Patient autonomy
Q2) Which of the following is an appropriate intervention for the nursing diagnosis of spiritual distress?
A) Never pray with patients or share readings that can have a religious connection.
B) Inform patients of the prevalent religious beliefs that exist in the locale where they are being treated.
C) Consider patients' religious beliefs when planning care.
D) Reassure patients that they should not blame God for their illness.
Q3) Which illness has the characteristics of a chronic illness?
A) Lupus
B) Bronchitis
C) Chicken Pox
D) Gastroenteritis
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Chapter 11: The Science of Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
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Q1) Dissemination of findings may involve which of the following activities? (Select all that apply.)
A) Manuscript reviewed by peers
B) Oral presentation of findings at annual conference of the Society of Pediatric Nurses
C) Poster presentation at regional conference of Sigma Theta Tau International
D) Publication of findings in Western Journal of Nursing Research
E) PowerPoint slides developed showing charts and graphs of the statistical results
Q2) Which of the following must be included in the informed consent in research?
A) Participants relinquish the right to privacy.
B) Once participants agree to participate, they must complete the study.
C) Participants need to know the funding source for the research.
D) Participants must be informed of risks associated with participation.
Q3) The discovery of oxygen would be called pure science because this information
A) was obtained for the sake of obtaining new knowledge of the world.
B) had an immediate use for humans.
C) would be useful in curing, managing, or preventing disease.
D) could direct further research at the bedside.
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Chapter 12: Conceptual and Philosophical Bases of Nursing
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Q1) An 18-month-old child has been in three foster homes within the past 9 months. When the child is seen for a well-child visit, the nurse notices the child vigilantly watches everyone. This child may not have which of Maslow's basic needs met?
A) Basic physiologic needs
B) Safety needs
C) Love and belonging needs
D) Self-actualization
Q2) A homeless man sleeps on a park bench and eats one meal a day at a shelter. Which is the lowest level of Maslow's basic needs he does not meet?
A) Basic physiologic needs
B) Safety needs
C) Love and belonging needs
D) Esteem needs
Q3) What is an advantage of the holistic view of health valued by nurses?
A) Altering an individual's health beliefs to promote health
B) Identifying a state of optimal role functioning
C) Focusing on the interrelationship of all parts of a whole person
D) Emphasizing the environment
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Chapter 13: Nursing Theory: The Basis for Professional Nursing
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Q1) Watson's 10 caritas processes include which of the following? (Select all that apply.)
A) The promotion of interpersonal teaching-learning
B) The participation in recreation
C) The instillation of faith-hope
D) Avoidance of injuring others
E) Assistance with the gratification of human needs
Q2) Which contemporary nursing theorist is best known for her definition of nursing that describes the nurse's role as a substitute for the patient and as a helper and partner to the patient?
A) Orem
B) Henderson
C) Watson
D) King
Q3) Which component of nursing theory describes a testable outcome?
A) Conceptual model
B) Proposition
C) Framework
D) Metaparadigm
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Chapter 14: Health Care in the United States
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Q1) A contributing factor to health care disparities may be A) genetic factors.
B) provider bias.
C) standard treatment options.
D) diagnostic differences.
Q2) Differences between treatment outcomes for different populations are known as A) health care outcomes.
B) population variability.
C) treatment choices.
D) health care disparities.
Q3) A health care agency that uses its profits to better the institution rather than paying stockholders would be classified as a
A) for-profit agency.
B) not-for-profit agency.
C) voluntary agency.
D) private agency.
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Q1) The American Nurses Association (ANA) serves as the A) clearinghouse of standards set by clinical specialty organizations.
B) regulatory agency setting the guidelines for the scope of practice.
C) source of dissemination of nursing research.
D) professional organization for all nurses regardless of practice setting or level of practice.
Q2) The most critical aspect of nurses becoming personally "political" is
A) financially supporting political action committees (PACs).
B) being informed of social and political issues.
C) communicating with legislators.
D) running for office.
Q3) A nurse was appointed to a governing board of a governmental agency and then ran for an elective office. The nurse is known as a
A) nurse citizen.
B) nurse activist.
C) nurse politician.
D) nurse clinician.
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Chapter 16: Nursing's Challenge: The Call for Transformation
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Q1) What is the focus of the Truth About Nursing Campaign?
A) Educating high school students about the nature of nursing
B) Increasing interdisciplinary collaboration by highlighting nursing achievements
C) Changing how the world thinks of nursing and protecting its image
D) Defending nurses against malpractice by supplying expert witnesses at trial
Q2) A nurse manager wants to cut costs and eliminate expensive latex-free gloves. Which response by the chief nursing officer (CNO) is best?
A) Allowing the change because it will save substantial money
B) Allowing the change because the manager is in charge of the unit's budget
C) Not allowing the change because latex allergy is fairly common
D) Not allowing the change until the next vendor bidding cycle occurs
Q3) A nurse sees an advertisement for work shoes that include a sexualizing image of a nurse wearing them. Which action by the nurse is best?
A) Buying the shoes and complaining to the store manager
B) Refusing to buy the shoes and writing a letter of complaint to the company
C) Looking around to see if there are other shoes that fit and are appropriate for work
D) Asking co-workers what they think about this advertisement campaign
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