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Nursing Ethics

Question 1

The client on renal dialysis informs the nurse that he wants to stop the series of dialysis. The nurse
should appropriately do which action in response to the client’s decision?

A Inform the client that the doctor must decide what to do.

B Tell the client that he must finish his series of renal dialysis.

C Respect the client’s decision and provide comfort measures.

D Leave the client and attend other patients.

Question 2

To make autonomous decisions and actions, clients must be offered enough information and has the
following criteria:

A Free of internal and external influences

B A minor

C Unconscious

D Comatose patient

Question 3

Being answerable for one’s own action is assuming:

A Accountability

B Responsibility

C Nonmaleficence

D Veracity

Question 4

Free consent is a willingness to participate in situations related to informed consent. There are
constraints related to voluntariness, which are the internal and external. Internal constraints include
which of the following?
A Coercion

B Fraud

C Undue violence

D Significant trauma

Question 5

The nurse in a unit is caring for several clients. To distribute nursing care the nurse utilized the principle
of triage due to the limited availability of resources. The nurse is promoting which ethical principle?

A Fidelity

B Justice

C Veracity

D Confidentiality

Question 6

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:

A Client

B Other health professionals

C Community

D All of these

Question 7

Ethics in nursing profession is very important. The type of ethics that presents a factual narration of
moral behaviors is called:

A Mataethics

B Normative ethics

C Descriptive ethics

D All of these

Question 8

Informed consent is a method that promotes:

A Autonomy

B Nonmaleficence

C Beneficence

D Justice

Question 9

External constraints can influence voluntariness in situations related to informed consent. These
constraint least likely include:

A Coercion

B Fraud

C Undue violence

D Significant trauma

Question 10

A wrong dose of drug is administered by the nurse. The nurse is responsible to whom?

A Client

B Physician who ordered the drug

C Society

D All of these

Question 11

When does a moral issue become an ethical issue?

A When the choices are clearly denoting which is right and wrong.

B When values of a person develops and changes over time.

C When there is no acceptable reason for the wrong choice once it is done.

D When the choice is no longer clear between right and wrong

Question 12

The personal conviction that something is absolutely right or wrong in all situations is called:

A values
B morals

C ethics

D standards of practice

Question 13

The duty to respect privileged information is called:

A Fidelity

B Justice

C Veracity

D Confidentiality

Question 14

A client is advised by the doctor to undergo chemotherapy. An informed consent is not yet signed. This
client requests information related to chemotherapy and the drugs that will be given to him. The nurse
explained the side effects of the medications, including the length of treatment and the prognosis of the
disease. The nurse answered all the questions of the client honestly even though the client may choose
not to undergo chemotherapy. The nurse in this situation is promoting:

A Fidelity

B Justice

C Veracity

D Confidentiality

Question 15

The portion of ethics that centers on the extent to which judgments are reasonable or otherwise
justifiable is:

A Mataethics

B Normative ethics

C Descriptive ethics

D All of these

Question 16
Nurse’s code of ethics is a set of ethical principles generally accepted by members of the profession. The
standard or principles that a nurse must observe in the practice should promote which duty?

A Uses judgment in relation to individual competence when accepting and delegating

responsibilities.

B Plays a major role in determining and implementation of desirable standards of nursing practice.

C Active in developing a core of professional knowledge.

D Acts through professional organization and participates in establishing and maintaining

equitable social and economic working conditions in nursing.

Question 17

Nurse Janine avoids deliberate harm, risk of harm and harm that occurs during her performance of
nursing actions. The nurse is promoting which ethical principle?

A Autonomy

B Nonmaleficence

C Beneficence

D Justice

Question 18

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:

A Accountability

B Autonomy

C Responsibility

D Veracity

Question 19

The execution of duties associated with nurse’s particular role is called:

A Accountability

B Responsibility

C Nonmaleficence
D Veracity

Question 20

The principles or standards that influence behavior and decision making which are based on experience,
religion, education and culture is called:

A values

B morals

C ethics

D standards of practice

Question 21

Deciding whether prolonging life in a terminally ill client or doing euthanasia (mercy killing) is an
example of what type of ethics?

A Mataethics

B Normative ethics

C Descriptive ethics

D All of these

Question 22

The fundamental responsibility of a nurse according to the International Council of Nurse Code for
Nurses are the following apart from:

A Prevention of illness

B Promotion of health

C Restoration of health

D Aggravation of suffering

Question 23

Professional accountability serves for the following purpose except for:

A To provide basis for ethical decision

B To respect the decision of the client.

C To maintain standards of health

D To evaluate new professional practices and reassess existing ones

Question 24

The one that promotes the philosophical and theological study of morality, moral judgments and moral
problems is called:

A values

B morals

C ethics

D standards of practice

Question 25

The nurse’s obligations to the client least like include:

A Considers the dignity of clients

B Retains a commitment of welfare to the client

C Work toward securing and maintaining conditions of employment that satisfy the goals of
nursing.

D Hold confidential all information about a client learned in a health care setting.