Nursing Ethics Practice Test

Justice requires treating each other fairly and giving persons their due. However problems like limited availability of resources complicate the application of the distribution of justice. To promote justice in this case, nurse may employ the practice of triage to distribute nursing care properly in spite of limited resources. Veracity is duty to tell the truth. Fidelity is the duty to keep promises. Confidentiality is the duty to respect privileged information.

Ethics is the promotion of philosophical and theological study of morality, moral judgments and moral problems. It reflects the principles or standards that govern proper conduct related to professional behavior. A moral belief is the personal conviction that something is absolutely right or wrong in all situations. Values are principles or standards that influence behavior and decision making which are based on experience, religion, education and culture.

Descriptive ethics presents a factual narration of moral behaviors. Metaethics is concerned with theoretical issues of meaning and justification. It is the portion of ethics that centers on the extent to which judgments are reasonable or otherwise justifiable. Normative ethics raises a question about what is right or what to be done in a situation that calls for an ethical decision.

Normative ethics raises questions about what is right or what to be done in a situation that calls for an ethical decision. Descriptive ethics presents a factual narration of moral behaviors.

Veracity is duty to tell the truth. Fidelity is the duty to keep promises. Confidentiality is the duty to respect privileged information. Justice requires treating each other fairly and giving persons their due. However problems like limited availability of resources complicate the application of the distribution of justice. To promote justice in this case, nurse may employ the practice of triage to distribute nursing care properly in spite of limited resources.

A moral belief is the personal conviction that something is absolutely right or wrong in all situations. Values are principles or standards that influence behavior and decision making which are based on experience, religion, education and culture. Ethics is the promotion of philosophical and theological study of morality, moral judgments and moral problems. It reflects the principles or standards that govern proper conduct related to professional behavior.

Accountability means being answerable to one’s own actions. Nonmaleficence is avoiding harm. Veracity is truth telling. Responsibility is the execution of duties associated with nurse’s particular role.

The nurse is accountable to the client who received the drug, the physician who ordered it, the nursing service that set the standards of expected performance and society which demands professional excellence.

Significant trauma is an internal constraint. A, B, and C are all external constraints.

Autonomy is the personal liberty of action and self-determination. Informed consent promotes this ethical principle and respects the client’s decision.

The fundamental responsibility of the nurse is to promote heath, prevent illness, restore health and alleviate (not aggravate) suffering.

Autonomous decision making should be free of internal and external influences. Minors, unconscious and patients in coma have to rely on others for decision-making.

Internal constraints include significant trauma, neurological damage, hypoxia, and other compromised physiological states. Psychological states such as grief, suffering, and anxiety can also limit willingness to participate. External constraints can influence voluntariness which includes coercion, duress, fraud, deceit or undue influence.

Nursing ethics states the duties and obligations of nurses to clients, other health professionals, profession and community.

Values are principles or standards that influence behavior and decision making which are based on experience, religion, education and culture. A moral belief is the personal conviction that something is absolutely right or wrong in all situations. Ethics is the promotion of philosophical and theological study of morality, moral judgments and moral problems. It reflects the principles or standards that govern proper conduct related to professional behavior.

Metaethics is concerned with theoretical issues of meaning and justification. It is the portion of ethics that centers on the extent to which judgments are reasonable or otherwise justifiable. Normative ethics raises a question about what is right or what to be done in a situation that calls for an ethical decision. Descriptive ethics presents a factual narration of moral behaviors.

This is the social context of nursing not a specific obligation of the nurse to the patient/client. a. Considers the dignity of clients – obligation to client b. Retains a commitment of welfare to the client – obligation to client c. Work toward securing and maintaining conditions of employment that satisfy the goals of nursing. – social context of nursing d. Hold confidential all information about a client learned in a health care setting. – obligation to client

Using judgment in relation to individual competence when accepting and delegating responsibilities is a duty of a nurse to his/her practice. Under the international Council of Nurses Code for Nurses the following duties are pertains to specific criteria: a. Uses judgment in relation to individual competence when accepting and delegating responsibilities. – NURSE AND PRACTICE b. Plays a major role in determining and implementation of desirable standards of nursing practice. – NURSE AND PROFESSION c. Active in developing a core of professional knowledge – NURSE AND PROFESSION d. Acts through professional organization and participates in establishing and maintaining equitable social and economic working conditions in nursing. – NURSE AND PROFESSION

Respect for autonomy must be acknowledged when the client disagrees with health care professionals, as well as when the client agrees with the recommendations of the health care team.

Duty to do no harm or nonmaleficence is what Nurse Janine is promoting. This ethical principle is also promoted when nurse avoids deliberate harm, risk of harm and harm that occurs during performance of nursing actions. Autonomy is the personal liberty of action and self-determination. Beneficence is doing good or active promotion of good for the benefit of others.

Responsibility is the execution of duties associated with nurse’s particular role. Accountability means being answerable to one’s own actions. Veracity is truth telling.

A moral belief is the personal conviction that something is absolutely right or wrong in all situations. A person is generally unwilling to change personal opinions on issues of a moral nature. However, when the choice is no longer clear between right and wrong the moral issue becomes an ethical one. For example, a person who morally believes that abortion is wrong but is faced with a pregnancy condition that would cause death of the mother if the fetus is not aborted. The moral issue (abortion) becomes an ethical one in this case. The ethical choice of not aborting the fetus but would end the life of the mother or aborting the fetus that would save the life of the mother would then cause confusion to the person involved.

Responsibility is the execution of duties associated with nurse’s particular role. Accountability means being answerable to one’s own actions. Nonmaleficence is avoiding harm. Veracity is truth telling.

Autonomy not accountability respects the decision made by the client. The purposes of professional accountability are: • To provide basis for ethical decision • To maintain standards of health • To evaluate new professional practices and reassess existing ones

Confidentiality is the duty to respect privileged information. Justice requires treating each other fairly and giving persons their due. However problems like limited availability of resources complicate the application of the distribution of justice. To promote justice in this case, nurse may employ the practice of triage to distribute nursing care properly in spite of limited resources. Veracity is duty to tell the truth.