Legal Aspects And Ethics

Question 1

Foundation of ethics is based on?

Answer 1

Expected behavior of a certain group in relationship to what is considered right and wrong

Question 2

What are values and beliefs held by a person on the guide your behavior and decision-making?

Answer 2

Morals

Question 3

Ability of the client to make personal decisions even when those decisions might not be in the clients own best interest & has concepts of freedom?

Answer 3

Autonomy

Question 4

What is care that is in the best interest of your patient / goodness, kindness and charity?

Answer 4

Beneficence

Question 5

Nurses obligation to avoid causing harm to the client?

Answer 5

Nonmalefience

Question 6

You are to keep your promise to your patient about the care that was offered?

Answer 6

Fidelity

Question 7

What is fair treatment and manners related to physical and psychosocial care in the use of resources, also determines how social burdens and benefits ought to be allocated?

Answer 7

Justice

Question 8

Nurses duty to tell the truth, truth telling?

Answer 8

Veracity

Question 9

What are three ways you can make an ethical decision?

Answer 9

Deontological, Telological, & Situational

Question 10

Decision-making based on an obligation of duty and what one considers to be right vs. wrong, respect to the patient/all life is worthy of respect?

Answer 10

Deontological

Question 11

Decision-making based on what provides the greatest good for the greatest number of individuals. That which causes a good outcome is good action. May not always be the happy one?

Answer 11

Teleological

Question 12

Decisions made in one situation cannot be generalized to another situation?

Answer 12

Situational

Question 13

How do I determine who owns the problem?

Answer 13

Determine the facts of the situation and get in there to investigate. After a course of action has been taken, evaluate the outcome. Call in ethics committee

Question 14

Nurse practice act?

Answer 14

Every state must have their own and always know policy and procedures at the hospital you are working at

Question 15

What must you always have posted somewhere in the facility?

Answer 15

Patient Bill of Rights

Question 16

Peer assisted voluntary program we’re nurses who are chemically impaired can go?

Answer 16

Chemically impaired professional

Question 17

Refers to the situation where the nurse moves beyond a professional relationship and becomes personally involved with the patient in their life?

Answer 17

Boundary violations

Question 18

What is the most common boundary violation?

Answer 18

Sexual misconduct

Question 19

Person who practice has deteriorated because of chemical abuse?

Answer 19

Chemically impaired professional

Question 20

Patient Bill of Rights

Answer 20

1. Information disclosure
2. Choice of providers in plans
3. Access to emergency services
4. Participation in treatment decisions
5. Respect and non-discrimination
6. Confidentiality of health information
7. Complaints and appeals

Question 21

Nurses must commit to a virtuous value system and examine their own values

Answer 21

Examining value systems

Question 22

The nurse practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worse, and unique attributes of every person?

Answer 22

Provision 1

Question 23

The nurses primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, group, community, or population?

Answer 23

Provision 2

Question 24

The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights, health, and safety of the patient?

Answer 24

Provision 3

Question 25

The nurse has authority, accountability, and responsibility for nursing practice; makes decisions; and takes actions are consistent with the obligations to promote health and to provide optimal care?

Answer 25

Provision 4

Question 26

The nurse does the same duties to self as to others, including the responsibility to promote health and safety, preserve wholeness of character and integrity, maintain confidence, and continue personal and professional growth?

Answer 26

Provision 5

Question 27

The nurse, through individual and collective effort, establishes, maintains, and improves the ethical environment of the work setting and conditions of employment that are conducive to safe, quality healthcare?

Answer 27

Provision 6

Question 28

The nurse, in all rolls and settings, advances the profession through research and scholarly inquiry, professional standards development, and the generation of both nursing and health policy?

Answer 28

Provision 7

Question 29

The nurse collaborates with other health professionals and the public to protect human rights, promote health diplomacy, and reduce health disparities?

Answer 29

Provision 8

Question 30

The profession of nursing, collectively through it's professional organizations, most articulate nursing values, maintain the integrity of the profession, and integrate principle of social justice into nursing and health policy?

Answer 30

Provision 9