Deck 3: Nursing Theory and Ethics

Question 1

The healthy newborn who demonstrates a positive sucking reflex is at which stage of Piaget's theory of cognitive development ?

A) Sensorimotor
B) Preoperational
C) Concrete Operations
D) Representational Thought

Answer 1

Sensorimotor

Question 2

Which of the following nursing models views nursing as an external regulatory force to restore equilibrium?

A) Goal Attainment
B) Human Becoming
C) Behavioral Systems
D) Unitary Human Beings
E) Culture Care Diversity and Universality

Answer 2

Behavioral Systems

Question 3

Pender's Health Promotion Model focuses on which of the following?

A) Caring
B) Adaptation
C) Human Becoming
D) Holistic Human Functioning
E) Culture Care Diversity and Universality

Answer 3

Holistic Human Functioning

Question 4

Case situation #1: Barbara needs more time to tell her father that he cannot return home and live alone after his stroke. He needs to go to a skilled nursing facility for care and rehabilitation. She had promised 5 years ago when her mother died that he could come and live with her. But that was before becoming a single parent to two school-age children. Her father keeps asking the nurse when he can go home. Identify the ethical issue involved for each of the following individuals.

-Barbara is faced with the dilemma of

A) Justice.
B) Privacy.
C) Veracity.
D) Autonomy.
E) Consistency.

Question 5

Case situation #1: Barbara needs more time to tell her father that he cannot return home and live alone after his stroke. He needs to go to a skilled nursing facility for care and rehabilitation. She had promised 5 years ago when her mother died that he could come and live with her. But that was before becoming a single parent to two school-age children. Her father keeps asking the nurse when he can go home. Identify the ethical issue involved for each of the following individuals.

-Barbara's father is faced with the dilemma of

A) Justice.
B) Fidelity.
C) Full-disclosure.
D) Confidentiality.

Question 6

The nurse is faced with which of the following ethical dilemmas?

A) Veracity
B) Autonomy
C) Determination
D) Conditional consent

Question 7

John is working in the ICU and notices that Mr. Jones has no advance directives. Mr. Jones is recovering from a myocardial infarction and is stable, but his family is noticeably anxious about his recovery. Mrs. Jones has been sent home to get some rest but has left instructions that Mr. Jones not be "worried" about his condition or that his insurance has been cancelled. The physician informed Mr. and Mrs. Jones that he should be able to return to work in the future but should consider a job less strenuous than that as a house roofer.

-Mrs. Jones is faced with the dilemma of

A) Justice.
B) Privacy.
C) Fatigue.
D) Full-disclosure.

Question 8

John is working in the ICU and notices that Mr. Jones has no advance directives. Mr. Jones is recovering from a myocardial infarction and is stable, but his family is noticeably anxious about his recovery. Mrs. Jones has been sent home to get some rest but has left instructions that Mr. Jones not be "worried" about his condition or that his insurance has been cancelled. The physician informed Mr. and Mrs. Jones that he should be able to return to work in the future but should consider a job less strenuous than that as a house roofer.

-Mr. Jones is faced with the dilemma of

A) Beneficence.
B) Confidentiality.
C) Nonmaleficence.
D) Self-determination.

Question 9

John is working in the ICU and notices that Mr. Jones has no advance directives. Mr. Jones is recovering from a myocardial infarction and is stable, but his family is noticeably anxious about his recovery. Mrs. Jones has been sent home to get some rest but has left instructions that Mr. Jones not be "worried" about his condition or that his insurance has been cancelled. The physician informed Mr. and Mrs. Jones that he should be able to return to work in the future but should consider a job less strenuous than that as a house roofer.

-The nurse John is faced with which of the following ethical dilemmas?

A) Fidelity.
B) Veracity.
C) Beneficence.
D) Confidentiality.