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Nursing Ethics explores the moral principles and standards that guide nursing practice, equipping students with the analytical tools necessary to navigate complex ethical dilemmas in healthcare settings. The course examines core concepts such as patient autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, confidentiality, and justice, and analyzes their application through case studies and real-world scenarios. Emphasis is placed on professional codes of ethics, legal implications, cultural considerations, and strategies for ethical decision-making, preparing students to advocate for patients and uphold integrity within the nursing profession.
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Ethics and Issues in Contemporary Nursing 2nd Canadian Edition by Margaret A. Burkhardt
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Chapter 1: Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces
Influencing the Development of Nursing
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Q1) For which of the following is empathy a motive?
A) meeting the needs of others
B) moral reasoning and action
C) becoming a nurse
D) determining right from wrong
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following had the greatest influence on nursing traditions in Canada?
A) Britain
B) Aboriginal persons
C) France
D) Germany
Answer: C
Q3) What is the most critical factor that influences nursing practice?
A) the traditional role of healers
B) the role of women in society
C) the religious and spiritual aspects of health care
D) the introduction of male nurses into the profession
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Ethical Theory
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Q1) A client is refusing a blood transfusion, despite the possible consequences. The nurse caring for this client knows that the client will die without the blood transfusion. What is this an example of?
A) personal philosophy
B) virtue ethics
C) ethical dilemma
D) practical imperative
Answer: C
Q2) What is the term for the Kantian maxim requiring that no action be judged as right which cannot reasonably become a law by which every person should always abide?
A) the categorical imperative
B) the practical imperative
C) deontology
D) utilitarianism
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Ethical Principles
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Q1) A nurse respects a patient's decision not to undergo any further dialysis. Which principle is this situation an example of?
A) respect for persons
B) justice
C) beneficence
D) autonomy
Answer: D
Q2) Which ethical principle requires nurses to uphold the profession's code of ethics, to practise within the established scope of practice, and to remain competent?
A) beneficence
B) autonomy
C) fidelity
D) non-maleficence
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Values Clarification
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Q1) A female patient is hospitalized with traumatic injuries caused by a vehicular collision. Her daughter, who was killed in the accident, was taken to the same hospital. The patient, who had been driving the vehicle, constantly asks the nurse about her daughter. The orthopedic surgeon has told the nurse not to tell the patient about the death of her daughter. The orthopedic surgeon does not give the nurse any reason for these instructions. The nurse expresses concern to the nurse manager, who says that the orthopedic surgeon will decide when the patient should be told. However, the nurse is not comfortable with this and wonders what should be done. Which of the following terms best describes this situation?
A) incongruent values
B) values conflict
C) overt values
D) societal values
Q2) What is the correct terminology for values that are implicit in expectations of an institution, but not in set out writing?
A) formal values
B) covert values
C) integral values
D) overt values
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Chapter 5: Values Development
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Q1) What does Phase 2 of Gilligan's study of the psychological development of women include?
A) a sense of goodness as self-sacrifice, in which the needs of others are often put ahead of self
B) a concern about the reaction of others as a basis for decisions and behaviour
C) reflecting a movement into a world beyond the family and a deep appreciation of connectedness
D) a deep appreciation of connectedness, including responsibility to self and others as moral equals, and a clear imperative to harm no one
Q2) According to Kohlberg and Gilligan, which of the following is the final stage in an adult's values development?
A) universal consideration
B) renewed perspective
C) perceived authority
D) general consensus
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Chapter 6: Ethical Decision Making
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Q1) The nurse manager asks Martha, a staff nurse, if she will work an additional four hours at the end of her shift. Martha's patient is unstable, and there are not enough nurses on the next shift to care for him adequately. If she works overtime, Martha will have to break a promise she made to watch her children's soccer game. What is this situation an example of?
A) moral distress
B) a moral dilemma
C) moral reckoning
D) a practical dilemma
Q2) When do moral dilemmas occur?
A) when the nurse is unsure of the morally correct action
B) when there are conflicting moral claims
C) when moral claims conflict with practical claims
D) when participants disagree on the appropriate course of action
Q3) During which step of the moral decision-making process is it appropriate to determine the key participants?
A) data gathering
B) problem articulation
C) strategy exploration
D) strategy implementation
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Chapter 7: Legal Issues
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Q1) In Canada, what federal privacy law imposes obligations on how federal government departments collect, manage, use, and share personal information?
A) the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
B) the Health Information Act
C) the Privacy Act
D) the Health Information Protection Act
Q2) Which of the following is characteristic when making nursing notes?
A) being nonjudgmental
B) having significant gaps
C) falsifying facts and events
D) maintaining confidentiality
Q3) What type of law would apply to nurses caught falsifying medical records to conceal their thefts of narcotics?
A) administrative law
B) common law
C) criminal law
D) constitutional law
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Chapter 8: Professional Issues
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Q1) What is one of the benefits of nurses contributing to the growing body of unique nursing knowledge and research?
A) It empowers nurses.
B) It ensures that members conduct ongoing competency reviews.
C) It permits autonomy in nursing affairs.
D) It aids in validating nursing as a true profession.
Q2) What term best describes knowledge necessary to provide a service that is either essential or desired by society?
A) professional education
B) professional recognition
C) professional autonomy
D) professional responsibility
Q3) What is the foremost law that governs the regulation of nursing?
A) Coordination and Patient Choice Act
B) Controlled Acts Model
C) Scope of Practice Statute
D) Professions of Medicine Law
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Chapter 9: Professional Relationship Issues
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Q1) Which of the following statements best defines harassment?
A) behaviour that demeans, humiliates, or embarrasses a person
B) multiple episodes of distressing behaviour with intermittent and continual threats
C) situations or thoughts that make an individual feel frustrated, angry, nervous, or anxious.
D) unwelcome, abusive behaviour, including oral and written communication of an aggressive nature
Q2) Which of the following individuals is the nurse's primary obligation to?
A) the patient
B) the employer
C) the physician
D) the profession
Q3) Which of the following would be described as "showing sympathy, care, and reciprocity to those with whom the nurse appropriately identifies, as well as working closely with others toward shared goals"??
A) self-sacrifice
B) loyalty
C) beneficence
D) leadership
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Chapter 10: Practice Issues Related to End-Of-Life Care
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Q1) To appropriately utilize health care technology, what must health care providers, patients, and families understand?
A) its purpose, benefits, and limitations
B) its cost, availability, and usefulness
C) its outcomes, benefits, and cost
D) its risks, availability, and purpose
Q2) What is the term for instructions designating someone to act as a surrogate in a very specific context if one loses decision-making capacity?
A) guardian ad litem
B) advance directives
C) self-determination
D) do not resuscitate
Q3) In which circumstance does Curtin suggest that artificial sources of nutrition may be terminated?
A) when utilizing other technologies at the end of life
B) when there is a reliable prediction of permanent unconsciousness
C) when other interventions will relieve a patient's suffering
D) when changes in the patient's condition will eventually lead to starvation
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Chapter 11: Practice Issues Related to Patient
Self-Determination
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Q1) What is the purpose of a patient completing a living will?
A) prolonging life or improving quality of life
B) identifying a proxy or substitute decision-maker
C) a medical determination relating only to the issue at hand
D) evaluating health care decisions and reducing choices
Q2) A nurse is caring for a patient with cancer who describes using ozone therapy and mega intravenous doses of vitamin C as part of her treatment. Which of the following nursing actions would take into consideration the patient's ability to self-determination?
A) Honour the patient's right to use therapies other than conventional medicine to address their health care needs.
B) Tell the patient that they should stop these therapies because the research does not support them.
C) Inform the patient that they have a right to do what they want, but that it is unwise to mix different modalities of therapy
D) Encourage the patient to share the alternative therapies with other patients to see if they might help them as well.
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Chapter 12: Scholarship Issues
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Q1) Which of the following issues affect academic integrity?
A) plagiarism and cheating
B) cheating and editing
C) editing and fidelity
D) forgery and consulting
Q2) What are two core values basic to academic honesty and to ethical treatment of research data?
A) plagiarism and cheating
B) cheating and fidelity
C) beneficence and integrity
D) veracity and fidelity
Q3) Which of the following statements best exemplifies the principle of plagiarism?
A) paraphrasing of the work of another and providing credit to that person
B) submitting your original work without citations
C) citing the work of another and using referencing
D) "cutting and pasting" sections from a previous paper into a current paper
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Chapter 13: The Future of Canadian Health Care: Challenges and Priorities
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of the federal responsibility for health care?
A) evaluating physician and hospital care
B) delivering direct health care services to native Canadians
C) delivering and managing insured health services
D) managing some public health and prescription care
Q2) What health care changes evolved in the latter part of nineteenth century in Canada ?
A) public health
B) interprofessional care
C) immigrant health
D) curative programs
Q3) Which of the following contribute to the challenge of providing health care for populations across the globe?
A) infant mortality and globalization
B) ecology and traditional healing systems
C) war and national crises
D) relationships and curative measures
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Chapter 14: Health Policy Issues
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Q1) Which of the following describes the most effective type of letter sent to a policy maker in a lobbying campaign?
A) a long emotional plea that is very thorough and explanatory and includes many examples
B) a form letter with a handwritten salutation and signature
C) a concise handwritten letter written in your own words, using your own thoughts and logic
D) a letter that includes a list of all topics of interest to nurses in your area
Q2) Which of the following is a health policy issue of concern to the profession of nursing?
A) setting up quarantine stations
B) changing the age of consent
C) trusting and sustainable relationships
D) monitoring entry to practice
Q3) Which of the following is an example of a federal regulatory act in Canada?
A) Assisted Human Reproductive Act
B) Future of Health Care Act
C) Canadian Policy Research Act
D) Canada Health Act
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Chapter 15: Economic Issues
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Q1) How does the Canada Health Act describe Canadian health care?
A) as a constitutional right
B) as facilitating reasonable access to health services
C) as the protection of basic needs, including a right to the protection of health
D) as treating health care as a commodity, not a right
Q2) Which ethical theories of justice are based on the concept that it is good to maximize the greatest good for the greatest number of people?
A) libertarian theories
B) utilitarian theories
C) deontological theories
D) communitarian theories
Q3) What is one of the ethical problems associated with the traditional fee-for-service system that medicine is predominantly driven by?
A) overutilization
B) privatization
C) privileges
D) opportunities
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Chapter 16: Social Issues
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Q1) Which of the following go beyond delivering health care that is grounded in the sexism, classism, and racism that often dominate health care delivery?
A) empathy; exploration
B) autonomy; perception
C) vigilance; justice
D) advocacy; caring
Q2) Which of the following challenges is an important structural issue in health care?
A) abortion
B) research
C) pandemics
D) poverty
Q3) Which ethical principle would lead to refusing to discharge an abused child to her home when there is a possibility of further injury?
A) non-maleficence
B) justice
C) beneficence
D) autonomy
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Chapter 17: Issues of Gender and Culture
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Q1) Which forms of discrimination are clearly prohibited by Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms ?
A) any form of practised inequality
B) unwelcome conduct that detrimentally affects the work environment
C) nurses' functioning subordinate to multiple layers of authority
D) disparity in earnings existing between men and women
Q2) A female nurse manager is overly friendly toward a young male colleague. She makes sexually explicit remarks and often corners him in the medication room, standing uncomfortably close. Which of the following is this behaviour consistent with?
A) sexual assault
B) sexual deviance
C) sexual harassment
D) hostile work environment
Q3) Which of the following is a major limiting factor for men still entering into the profession of nursing?
A) collective bargaining
B) pay gap
C) societal stereotyping
D) caring behaviours
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Chapter 18: Rural and Aboriginal Nursing in Canada
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Q1) What is the percent of Canadians defined as living in a rural environment?
A) between 10 and 20 percent
B) between 20 and 30 percent
C) between 30 and 40 percent
D) between 40 and 50 percent
Q2) Which of the following is an objective of the Canadian Association for Rural and Remote Nursing?
A) to reduce inequities between groups and populations
B) to facilitate communication and networking
C) to regulate remote health care teamwork and interdisciplinary approaches
D) to highlight the professional and practice challenges of rural nursing
Q3) Which of the following does the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) identify as one of the eight attributes of nursing professional practice?
A) collegiality
B) consistency
C) accessibility
D) predictability
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Chapter 19: Empowerment for Nurses
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Q1) Which of the following is a potential barrier to patient empowerment?
A) comfort with change
B) sufficient knowledge
C) social labelling
D) available resources
Q2) To enable patient empowerment, what do nurses need to recognize?
A) Health professionals know what is best for patients.
B) Patients need help in making health care decisions.
C) Patients are responsible for their own health.
D) Health professionals give power to patients.
Q3) What nursing focus does patient empowerment evolve from?
A) advocacy
B) patient care
C) paternalism
D) locus of control
Q4) Which of the following factors influences professional empowerment in nursing?
A) professional disobedience
B) support of professional colleagues
C) faith that the right thing is done
D) abdicating responsibility for decision making
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