Nursing Ethics and Law Test Bank - 191 Verified Questions
Nursing Ethics and Law Test Bank
Course Introduction
Nursing Ethics and Law explores the fundamental ethical principles and legal frameworks that guide the nursing profession. This course examines topics such as patient rights, informed consent, confidentiality, professional accountability, and advocacy within the context of healthcare delivery. Students will learn to analyze moral dilemmas and legal cases faced in clinical practice, fostering critical thinking and ethical decision-making skills essential for providing safe, compassionate, and legally sound patient care.
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Quality and Safety for Transformational Nursing Core Competencies 1st Edition by Kim Amer
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Chapter 1: Risk and Threats to Safe Quality Care in Hospital Settings
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Q1) The nurse manager is identifying methods to improve the quality of care for a patient care area. Which actions would help the nurse manager achieve this outcome?
Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Awareness of safety issues
B) Study the processes of care
C) Focus on patient-centered care
D) Create a learning environment
E) Improve communication between patient and provider Correct
Answer: A,B,C,E
Q2) The health care organization is investigating ways to reduce the number of medication errors. Which action has been identified as a strategy to dramatically reduce medication errors?
A) Bar coding medication delivery
B) Locking medication carts when not in use
C) Restricting access to controlled substances
D) Sharing medication carts when preparing doses Correct
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Quality and Safety Models
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Q1) The nurse desires to improve caring and relationship skills when providing patient care. On what will this nurse focus? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Patient advocacy
B) Decision making
C) Cultural respect
D) Morality
E) Ethics Correct
Answer: A,C,D,E
Q2) A healthcare organization is striving to improve the quality of patient care; however, the medical director is opposed to making changes. What action could a nurse manager take to help improve quality on one patient care area?
A) Implement multidisciplinary meetings.
B) Encourage nursing staff to follow policies.
C) Remind care givers to thoroughly document.
D) Identify physician issues that are problematic. Correct
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Transition to Practice: an Essential Element of
Quality and Safety
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Q1) The nurse manager is evaluating the competency of new graduate nurses when providing patient care. On which area do most graduate nurses need more assistance and focus?
A) Delegation
B) Conflict resolution
C) Tracking multiple responsibilities
D) Understanding quality improvement Correct
Answer: A
Q2) A new graduate has been providing patient care for several months and the preceptor has decided to change the relationship to one of benevolent surveillance. What action will the preceptor perform when practicing this type of surveillance?
A) Being approachable
B) Encouraging question asking
C) Providing constructive feedback
D) Keeping an eye on the new graduate Correct
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Power, Empowerment, and Change in Nursing and Health Care
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Q1) The nursing staff was asked through a survey to describe what activities would improve their feelings of empowerment. What choices would the nurses select to increase feelings of being empowered? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Increased tenure
B) Approachable leader
C) Available opportunities
D) Work is valued by others
E) Accepting duties as assigned Correct
Q2) The graduate nurse, researching the concept of emancipatory nursing practice, is searching for a theory to support current nursing behavior of taking orders and following the medical model for care. Whose theory would support what the graduate nurse is seeking?
A) Foucault
B) Freire
C) Rogers
D) Hooks Correct
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Chapter 5: Quality and Safety Education Strategies
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Q1) The nurse is utilizing the 6.0.-second situation assessment tool to determine which patient to see first after morning report. Which patient would be considered the most critical?
A) Patient respiratory rate 8 and lethargic
B) Patient without intravenous lines wearing oxygen
C) Patient lying on right side in bed responds to verbal stimuli
D) Patient in bed with both side rails down talking on the telephone Correct
Q2) A staff nurse identifies the need to use critical language to address a dangerous patient event. Which statements would be included in this language? Standard Text:
Select all that apply.
A) I don't like the way the patient is breathing.
B) I don't want to leave the patient's bedside.
C) I think the patient's status is deteriorating.
D) I want to document patient care.
E) I need to take a break. Correct
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Chapter 6: Evaluating a Program: Metrics and Stakeholders
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Q1) The nurse manager is concerned that the staff is not exposed to many skills that have been instructed by the staff development department. Which can be done to ensure the staff is able to perform the skill should the situation arise in patient care?
A) Schedule monthly review sessions.
B) Assign two staff nurses to complete each technical skill.
C) Assign staff to review the procedure manual each shift.
D) Design an annual competency evaluation with the staff development department. Correct
Q2) The Quality Improvement committee is planning to measure the number of incorrectly documented medication doses on a patient care area. Which method would be used to collect this data?
A) Focus group
B) Questionnaire
C) Computer system
D) Satisfaction survey Correct
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Chapter 7: Interprofessional Team Building
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Q1) The nurse is using electronic communication to notify a physician who is attending an off-site meeting about the status of a patient. Which actions would the nurse include when communicating electronically?
A) Be clear and concise.
B) Use exclamation points.
C) Type in all capital letters.
D) Type in shorthand. Correct
Q2) The nurse manager is observing a daily patient care conference attended by physicians, nurses, and pharmacy staff. Which observation indicates the conference is not being effective to improve patient care?
A) Physician listens to the nurse explain the patient's response to treatment
B) Nurse asks pharmacist to described expected side effects of a medication
C) Physician asks pharmacist to recommend a medication with quick results
D) Physician telling nurse to gather the patients' medical records for the conference Correct
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Chapter 8: Transforming Care at the Bedside Tcab
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Q1) The nurse manager, implementing Transforming Care at the Bedside, wants to improve value-added processes. Why would the manager ask nurses to participate in this process?
A) Nurses have the most time.
B) Nurses spend the most time in non-care related activities.
C) Nurses know which staff wastes the most time.
D) Nurses know what the physicians want. Correct
Q2) The staff on a Transforming Care at the Bedside unit is implementing a morning huddle. Which outcomes indicate an improvement in patient-centered care? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Improved communication
B) Less waste of patient care supplies
C) Less time spent questioning orders
D) Less time spent locating physicians
E) Early identification of patient safety issues Correct
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Chapter 9: Informatics and Nursing: Using Technology to Improve Quality
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Q1) The nurse is making a visit to a patient after computerized monitoring equipment was delivered to the home. On which area is the most important for the nurse to focus when reviewing the equipment with the patient?
A) Tasks
B) Equipment
C) User's ability
D) Environment Correct
Q2) An administrator is researching a variety of electronic medical record systems for possible use in the healthcare organization. Which information does the administrator need about the systems prior to making a final decision? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Healthcare provider assisted with system design
B) System congruency with the users
C) Ease of use
D) Accessible
E) Cost Correct
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Chapter 10: Patient-Centered Care
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Q1) The nurse is planning to implement steps within Leiningers' Wheel of Culture. Which factors will the nurse identify as influencing care expressions, patterns, and practices?
Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Technology
B) Economics
C) Kinship
D) Politics
E) Diet Correct
Q2) The nurse is caring for an older patient with end stage renal disease. On what will the nurse focus to ensure that the patient's values, preferences, and needs are respected?
Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Dignity
B) Education
C) Quality of life
D) Needs and autonomy
E) Involvement in decision making Correct
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Chapter 11: Quality Health Care, Policy and Law
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Q1) The family of a resident in a skilled nursing facility is requesting to transfer the patient because of unsafe nursing care. What unsafe nursing practices did the family observe?
Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Nurses sitting in the nurses' station and patient call lights on
B) Breakfast trays being passed by staff wearing clean gloves
C) Inability to find a nurse to help with a patient problem
D) Dirty floors and overflowing trash bins and containers
E) Dressing supplies on the window seals Correct
Q2) After providing morning medications the nurse realizes that a medication error was made. What should the nurse do?
A) Evaluate the patient for effects of the medication error.
B) Document that medications were switched between patients.
C) Encourage the patient to ingest more water throughout the day.
D) Tell the truth and report the medication error according to policy. Correct
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Chapter 12: Future-Focused Quality Nursing
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Q1) A healthcare organization is planning to implement the Triple Aim goals. Which actions would this organization plan during the implementation of these goals?
Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) An open house for community members to tour the hospital and facilities
B) Schedule wellness clinics for community members to have blood pressure checks
C) Promote smoking cessation classes for community members most days of the week
D) Plan a health insurance provider day for community members to change insurance coverage
E) Send flyers to community members announcing new surgical procedures done in the facility Correct
Q2) A nurse is selected to serve on a task force whose purpose is to plan responses to terroristic threats in a major city. The media is planning a session with the task force to discuss progress on the plan thus far. What would the nurse do to prepare for the media session?
A) Plan to smile into the camera and stay quiet.
B) Stand in the back of the room to reduce exposure.
C) Prepare thoughtful responses to potential questions.
D) Direct all questions to the chairperson of the committee. Correct
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