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NUR 103 final Exam with complete solutions 2024_2025
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NUR 103 final Exam with completesolutions 2024/2025
How should a situation be handled in cases where a nurse's personal beliefs
differ from the care or education being provided?
Examples: vaccines, surgical procedures, blood transfusion, etc. -
ANSWER✓✓-Nurses should practice healthcare with respect for
human rights, cultural rights, the right to life and choice, and
dignity, and to treat patients and others with respect
Healthcare is a right to all individuals, including the right to choose or decline
care, the right to accept or refuse treatment or nourishment, and the right to die
with dignity
What are the four ethical principles used in nursing and healthcare
delivery? - ANSWER✓✓-- Autonomy
- Beneficence
- Justice
- Veracity
Autonomy - ANSWER✓✓-- Focuses on the patient's right to make
decisions about matters that affect the patient
- The patient makes the final decisions about treatment
- Nurse's role is to provide information to better ensure that others (ex. the
physican) inform the patient and then support the patient's decision
,Beneficence - ANSWER✓✓-- Relates to doing something good and
caring for the patient
- Surpasses just physical care but also involves the patient's awareness of their
situation and needs
- Includes doing no harm and safeguarding the patient like a nurse
Justice - ANSWER✓✓-- Focuses on treating people fairly
- Deciding which patients to treat and which patients to not
- Lack of justice can lead to disparities in health care
- Can also have an impact on quality care
Veracity - ANSWER✓✓-- Focuses on the truth
- Which information is given to the patient during the informed consent process?
- Trust is one of the requirements for informed consent and patient privacy and
confidentiality
- Can be challenged if a family member were to ask that the patient not be fully
informed. This is a direct conflict with ethical practices and patient-centered care
Moral Disengagement - ANSWER✓✓-The process that involves
justifying one's unethical actions by altering one's moral perception
of those actions
What is the correlation between ethical and legal issues and quality
of care? - ANSWER✓✓-- If the work environment is not healthy staff
members may withdraw from responsibility
- Staff could feel as if there are barriers in the organization such as rules, time
issues, etc, keeping them from pursuing an ethical action
- It is important for nurses and healthcare organizations to support a healthy work
environment to prevent and or reduce problems such as a hostile work
, environment, staff and management passive-aggressive behavior, increased
problems with errors, working around the system, and retention of staff
What are the reporting requirements for nurses in cases of
incompetent, unethical, or illegal practices? - ANSWER✓✓-- State
boards of nursing have specific processes and procedures that must
be followed
- Every nurse has a responsibility to report incompetent, unethical, or illegal
practices to the nurse's state board of nursing
- The source of a complaint remains private
- Any nurse who faces a complaint should retain the services of a personal
attorney
- A complaint of a nurse does not mean that the nurse is guilty
What are some of the most common causes of ethical violations in
nursing? - ANSWER✓✓-- Using illicit drugs or alcohol while practicing
- Stealing drugs from a healthcare organization
- Committing a serious error that might demonstrate incompetence
- Falsifying records
How should a situation be handled in cases where a nurse's
personal beliefs differ from the care or education being provided? -
ANSWER✓✓-- Practice healthcare with respect for human rights,
cultural rights, the right to life and choice, and dignity, and to treat
patients and others with respect
- Healthcare is a right to all individuals, including the right to choose or decline
care, the right to accept or refuse treatment or nourishment, and the right to die
with dignity.
How does patient advocacy correlate with the Code of Ethics for
Nurses? - ANSWER✓✓-Nurses must be fully aware of patients' rights
for all settings, ages, and developmental abilities and they must be
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