Question 1

What are standards for decision-making that endure for a significant time in one's life?

Accepted Answer

Values are standards for decision-making that endure for a significant time in one's life.

Question 2

Socialization into the nursing profession may have the most significant effect on:

Accepted Answer

Values that the nurse will need to balance include truth, harmony, duty, and responsibility.

Question 3

A nursing student's attitude is defined as:

Accepted Answer

An attitude is one's disposition toward an object or a situation; it can be a mental or emotional mindset, and it can be positive or negative.

Question 4

A hospice nurse is caring for a client with terminal cancer. The family would like the client to continue aggressive therapy to treat the cancer, but the client has voiced to the nurse that, after much thought, the client does not want to pursue any further treatment. The nurse speaks to the family about the client's wishes, condition, and terminal state. This action is most likely derived from which nursing obligation?

Accepted Answer

Moral values involve correct behavior, such as having some sense of right and wrong. Moral values help direct nurses to deal with human interactions that involve the integrity of life or health.

Question 5

The differences between the pro-life and abortion rights movement are an example of:

Accepted Answer

Values inquiry is a method of examining social issues and the values that motivate human choices.

Question 6

The purpose of a values inquiry discussion with a group of nursing students is to:

Accepted Answer

Values inquiry is a method of examining social issues and the values that motivate human choices.

Question 7

The nurse is engaged in dialogue with a client in an effort to identify the client's values. Value systems are often formally embedded and integrated into:

Accepted Answer

Values are often codified and embedded into religion. This phenomenon is not noted in relation to nature, treatment, and activity.

Question 8

During adolescence, the process of value formation is profoundly influenced by:

Accepted Answer

In adolescence, peer groups are a major source of value formation. The attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that grow out of peer group relationships are powerful. It is generally accepted that the influence of peers exceeds that of school administration, work life, or the awareness of other cultures.

Question 9

A nurse is contributing to the analysis of an ethical dilemma. Ethics is best defined as the branch of philosophy that addresses:

Accepted Answer

Ethics is the branch of philosophy dealing with standards of conduct and moral judgment. It does not directly address law. It includes, but is not limited to, decision-making and competing priorities.

Question 10

A nurse believes that abortion is an acceptable option if a pregnancy results from a situation of rape. What is the best description of this belief?

Accepted Answer

Personal morality is the set of beliefs about the standards of right and wrong that helps a person determine the correct or permissible action in a given situation.

Question 11

A nurse is of the Catholic faith and votes pro-life. The nurse is considered to have:

Accepted Answer

Personal values are ideas or beliefs a person considers important and feels strongly about.

Question 12

A hospital owned by a Catholic order of nuns will not allow tubal ligations to be performed. This is considered to be:

Accepted Answer

Institutional policies are guidelines developed by healthcare institutions to direct professional practice.

Question 13

To practice ethically, the nurse should:

Accepted Answer

Personal convictions apply only to situations and decisions pertaining to the individual. In ethical practice, nurses avoid allowing personal judgments to bias their treatment of clients.

Question 14

An emergency department nurse and healthcare team are caring for a semiconscious child age 2 years with numerous fractures and evidence of cigarette burns. They suspect child abuse. The nurse reports the family to the child abuse hotline. The nurse is following which ethical principle?

Accepted Answer

The principle of nonmaleficence means to avoid doing harm, to remove harm, and to prevent harm.

Question 15

A client is in a persistent vegetative state. The client has no immediate family and is a ward of the state. Under these circumstances, who will speak on this client's behalf?

Accepted Answer

Infants, young children, people who are severely mentally handicapped or incapacitated, and people in a persistent vegetative state or coma do not have the capacity to participate in decision-making about their healthcare. For such people, a surrogate decision-maker must be identified to act on their behalf.

Question 16

A legal document that states a client's health-related wishes-such as a preference for pain management if the client becomes terminally ill-and also allows the client's daughter to direct his or her care, is a(an):

Accepted Answer

Clients communicate their wishes to healthcare providers by verbally participating in healthcare decision-making and by employing written documents called advance directives.

Question 17

The client being admitted to the oncology unit conveys personal wishes regarding resuscitation in the event of cardiopulmonary arrest. The nurse advises the client that it would be in the client's best interest to obtain which document?

Accepted Answer

A living will is an advance directive that specifies the type of medical treatment clients do or do not want to receive should they be unable to speak for themselves in a terminal or permanently unconscious condition.

Question 18

The foundation for decisions about resource allocation throughout a society or group is based on the ethical principle of:

Accepted Answer

Justice is the foundation for decisions about resource allocation throughout a society or group.

Question 19

An oncology client in an outpatient chemotherapy clinic asks several questions regarding his care and treatment. The nurse explains the clinic's routine, typical side effects of the chemotherapy, and ways to decrease the number of side effects experienced. What characteristic is the nurse demonstrating?

Accepted Answer

Veracity means telling the truth, which is essential to the integrity of the client-provider relationship.

Question 20

When the nurse informs a client's employer of his autoimmune deficiency disease, the nurse is committing the tort of:

Accepted Answer

Nurses have access to information recorded in the medical record, information shared or observed through care or interactions with friends and family, and through access to the client's body. A loss of privacy occurs if others inappropriately use their access to a person.

Quiz 3: Values, Ethics, and Legal Issues