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Ethical, Cultural, and Legal Issues FNP Board Review- Qs & As
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Ethical, Cultural, and Legal Issues FNP Board Review- Qs& As
What is the most cost effective form of healthcare? CORRECT ANS-Primary prevention
services, aimed at
avoiding health problems, can help
with healthcare cost savings and help
actualize the principle of
utilitarianism.
Veracity CORRECT ANS-Defined as the principle stating that
the provider should be honest and
give full disclosure to the patient,
abstain from misrepresentation or
deception, and report known lapses
of the standards of care to the proper
agencies.
1. Which of the following describes the
ethical principle of beneficence?
A. The right of the competent person to choose a personal plan of life and action.
B. The obligation of the healthcare provider to help people in need.
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C. The duty of healthcare provider to do no harm.
D. The responsibility of the healthcare provider to treat all in the same fair manner.
CORRECT ANS-B
2. Which of the following describes the ethical principle of utilitarianism?
A. Healthcare resources are allocated
so that the best is done for the
greatest number of people.
B. The healthcare provider must be
truthful and avoid deception.
C. The healthcare provider has an
obligation to be faithful to
commitments made to self and
others.
D. The responsibility of the healthcare
provider is to treat all people in the
same fair manner. CORRECT ANS-A
American Nurses Association
Code of Ethics CORRECT ANS-"...developed as a guide for
carrying out nursing responsibilities
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in a manner consistent with quality
in nursing care and the ethical
obligations of the profession."
Beneficence CORRECT ANS-- Defined as the
healthcare
provider's
obligation to
help people in
need
Nonmaleficence CORRECT ANS-Defined as the requirement that the
healthcare provider do no harm,
whether with or without intention. If
harm is unavoidable, the provider is
obligated to minimize harm.
Nonmaleficence is usually viewed as
the corollary to beneficence.
Autonomy CORRECT ANS-Defined as the right of the competent
person to choose a personal plan of
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life and action by exercising the rights
of self-determination, independence
and freedom.
To ensure patient autonomy CORRECT ANS-Healthcare provider must put aside
his or her personal or professional
opinion of what the patient should
do, and provide him or her with
unbiased information about the risks
and benefits of treatment.
One Goal of Autonomy:
Avoiding Paternalism CORRECT ANS-In a situation where the healthcare provider believes
the patient would benefit from therapy but the informed patient declines intervention, the
patient's wishes must be followed.
Autonomy is not an absolute right CORRECT ANS-- Limitations are placed when person's
autonomy could interfere with the rights, health or well-being of another.
- Common example - Mycobacterium tuberculosis (or for other contagious condition) therapy
can be provided under court order to a competent person
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