Nursing Ethics Practice Test
Question 1
Professional accountability serves for the following purpose except for:
To provide basis for ethical decision
To respect the decision of the client.
To maintain standards of
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Nursing Ethics Practice Test
Question 1
Professional accountability serves for the following purpose except for:
To provide basis for ethical decision
To respect the decision of the client.
To maintain standards of health
To evaluate new professional practices and reassess existing ones
Question 1 Explanation:Autonomy not accountability respects the
decision made by the client. The purposes of professional
accountability are: • To provide basis for ethical decision • To maintain
standards of health • To evaluate new professional practices and
reassess existing ones
Question 2
The portion of ethics that centers on the extent to which judgments are reasonable or otherwise
justifiable is:
Mataethics
Normative ethics
Descriptive ethics
All of these
Question 2 Explanation:Metaethics is concerned with theoretical
issues of meaning and justification. It is the portion of ethics that
centers on the extent to which judgments are reasonable or otherwise
justifiable. Normative ethics raises a question about what is right or
what to be done in a situation that calls for an ethical decision.
Descriptive ethics presents a factual narration of moral behaviors.
Question 3
The fundamental responsibility of a nurse according to the International Council of Nurse Code for
Nurses are the following apart from:
Prevention of illness
Promotion of health
Restoration of health
Aggravation of suffering
Question 3 Explanation:The fundamental responsibility of the nurse
is to promote heath, prevent illness, restore health and alleviate (not
aggravate) suffering.
Question 4
Nursing ethics provides the standards for professional behavior and is the study of principles of right
and wrong for nurses. This set of standards states the duties and obligations of nurses to:
Client
Other health professionals
Community
All of these
Question 4 Explanation:Nursing ethics states the duties and
obligations of nurses to clients, other health professionals, profession
and community.
Question 5
Before the nurse administered the client’s medication she assessed the client’s needs for drugs, and
followed the “rights” in drug preparation and administration. After the nurse has given the dose, she
evaluated the client’s response to the medication given. The nurse is promoting:
Accountability
Autonomy
Responsibility
Veracity
Question 5 Explanation:Responsibility is the execution of duties
associated with nurse’s particular role. Accountability means being
answerable to one’s own actions. Veracity is truth telling.
Question 6
Deciding whether prolonging life in a terminally ill client or doing euthanasia (mercy killing) is an
example of what type of ethics?
Mataethics
Normative ethics
Descriptive ethic
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