Paper: Nursing Ethics Semester # 4th

1. policy of minimum governmental interference in the economic affairs of individuals and society Is________
type of Mode of Value transmission:
A) Modeling B) Moralizing C) Laissez-Faire D) Responsible choice

2. Encouragement is given to explore different behaviors and to weight their consequences (Balance of
freedom and restriction) e.g. pocket money; doing chores; homework is:
A) Responsible choice B) Moralizing C) Laissez-Faire D) Modeling

3. Choosing, prizing and acting are steps of:

A) Value clarification B) Value System C) value rating D) Value set

4. Verbally drumming into a child’s head a value system; done by parents, schools and religious institutions,
etc is ________ Mode of Value transmission:
A) Modeling B) Moralizing C) Laissez-Faire D) responsible choice

5. Parents, family members, peers (significant people in one’s life) are role models for children. What type of
Mode of Value transmission is this:
A) Modeling B) Moralizing C) Laissez-Faire D) Responsible choice

6. happiness, success, inner harmony, successful career, to become famous, or to become rich are the
examples of:
A) Terminal Value B) economic Value C) Social value D) Personal value

7. Organizing or rating values according to its importance

A) Value clarification B) Value System C) value rating D) value set

8. nondisclosure of truth means:

A) lying B) Deception C) Nonmaleficience D) beneficence

9. When the principle of beneficence overrides the client’s autonomy, the result is:
A) Paternalism B) Beneficence C) Nonmaleficience D) Deception

10. ________ means act of mercy, kindness and charity. It refers to an action done to benefit others”.
A) Autonomy B) Beneficence C) Nonmaleficience D) Paternalism

11. The right to make one’s own decisions is Called:

A) Autonomy B) Beneficence C) Nonmaleficience D) Paternalism
12. ______ is a situation involving choice between alternatives that are equally unsatisfactory.
A) Morals B) Values C) Dilemma D) Belief

13. ________ Are special class of attitudes in which the cognitive component is based more on faith than on
fact.

A) Morals B) Values C) Believes D) Attitude

14. ________ Are dispositions or feelings towards a person, object, or idea.

A) Morals B) Values C) Attitude D) Belief

15. ________ shape decisions in everyday life, from the clothes we wear to the movies we prefer to the food we
eat and the car we buy.
A) Morals B) Values C) Believes D) Attitude

16. _______ are standards of conduct that represent the ideal in human behavior, to which society expects its
members to adhere.
A) Morals B) Values C) Believes D) Attitude

17. The application of general ethical principles to health care is referred to as:
A) Bioethics B) Nursing ethics C) principal of ethics D) None of these

18. ______ Refers to ethical issues pertaining to nursing practice.

A) Bio ethics B) Nursing ethics C) principal of ethics D) None of these

19. “a branch of philosophy that attempts to determine what constitutes good, bad, right and wrong in human
behavior is called:

A) Ethics B) dilemma c) value D) None of these

20. Are forms of communication in which persons can give direction on how they would like to be treated when
they cannot speak or decide for themselves is called:
A) Advance directive B) informed consent C) Privacy D) None of these

21. “Legitimate expectations of person in a given society at a given time.” Is called:

A) Right B) value C) position D) Social norms

22. Human rights emphasize that all people, including members of minority, ethnic and religious groups, have
the same basic rights and should be able to enjoy them without discrimination. This better explain:
 A) Political Rights B) Legislative Rights C) Individual Rights D) Rights of Special Groups/ Minorities:

23. …………….. Is a set of ethical principles generally accepted by members of the profession”
A) Code B) Norms C) Believes D) None of these

24. The International Council of Nurses (ICN) was established in ……….. .

A) 1988 B) 1899 C) 1888 D) 1988
25. ICN is a federation of more than ………… national nurses' associations representing millions of nurses
worldwide. 
A) 124 B) 120 C) 100 D) 200
26. An international code of ethics for nurses was first adopted by the International Council of Nurses (ICN)
in………….
A) 1901 B) 1953 C) 1950 D) 1990
27. Which of the following is not Nurses fundamental responsibilities according to ICN:
A) To promote health B) To prevent illness C) treatment D) To restore health
28. In…………., nurses in Pakistan adopted the ICN Code of Ethics for their professional practice.
A) 1954 B) 1990 C) 1999 D) 1980
29. In ………. , PNC adopted its own code entitled “PNC Code of Ethics for the Registered Nurse, Midwife,
Lady Health Visitor, and Nursing Auxiliary”
A) 1980 B) 1999 C) 1992 D) 1990
30. ……… is a body of rules of action or conduct prescribed by a “controlling authority.”
A) Politics B) Law C) Morals D) None these
31. ……….. is regulates disputes among individuals and between individual & groups
A) Administrative law B) civil law C) Criminal law D) Common law
32. ……….. is based upon previous court decisions
A) Administrative law B) civil law C) Criminal law D) Common law
33. ……………… Is a civil wrong committed by one person against another person or that person’s property.
A) Crime B) tort C) violation D) lawless

34. Which of the following is not intentional tort:

A) Assault B) Murder C) fraud D) negligence

35. The first step of the value clarification process is?

a. Acting
b. Prizing
c. Choosing
d. None of the above
36. The head nurse or nursing manager allocates staff nurses on equal basis & treat all of them in non-
discriminatory manners are?
a. Equality
b. Veracity
c. Altruism
d. Beneficence
37. The nurse gives her extra time to a sicker client is an example of?
a. Altruism
b. Accountability
c. Human dignity
d. Justice

38. The oldest professional nursing organization founded in 1899 is?

a. WHO (World health organization)
b. ANA (American nursing association)
c. ICN (International council of nurses)
d. PNC (Pakistan nursing council)
39. “Being answerable to someone for something one has done” is known as?
a. Responsibility
b. Autonomy
c. Accountability
d. Confidentiality
40. Set of ethical principles generally accepted by the profession members, guidance for decision making and
hallmark of the profession is?
a. Morality
b. Value system
c. Ethical codes
d. Beliefs
41. To keep private information secret or undisclosed is?
a. Privacy
b. Dignity
c. Confidentiality
d. Respect
42. If there are greater risks of a procedure, which type of consent should prefer?
a. Implied consent
b. Oral consent
c. Written consent
d. Advance directives
43. Informed consent may contain:
a. Nature of treatment
b. Risks
c. Benefits
d. Alternatives
e. All of the above
44. The requirement of consent reflects which ethical principle?
a. Autonomy
b. Justice
c. Altruism
d. Fidelity

45. Taking informed consent from the client is responsibility of the?

a. Physician / Surgeon
b. Nurse
c. Nursing assistant
d. Pharmacist
46. The fundamental elements of ICN code of conducts are all except:
a. Nurses and people
b. Nurses and practice
c. Nurses and profession
d. Nurses and doctors
47. PNC (Pakistan nursing council) adopted its own code entitled “PNC Code of Ethics for the Registered
Nurse, Midwife, Lady Health Visitor, and Nursing Auxiliary” in the year?
a. 1948
b. 1953
c. 1954
d. 1999
48. Patient bill of rights contains all except?
a. Right to informed choices
b. Right to privacy and confidentiality
c. Right to refreshment and recreation
d. Right of respect and consideration
49. The underlying moral principle involve in accountability is?
a. Fidelity
b. Nonmaleficence
c. Beneficence
d. Dignity
50. The right of self determination is?
a. Human dignity
b. Beneficence
c. Nonmaleficence
d. Autonomy
51. Faithfulness to fact & reality is called?
a. Truth
b. Justice
c. Ethical dilemma
d. Autonomy
52. Ethical dilemma of “mercy killing or good death” is known as?
a. Cloning
b. Abortion
c. Euthanasia
d. Whistle blowing
53. Competing duties, ethical principles when follow one may violate other and decision making becomes
difficult is?
a. Ethical dilemma
b. Value clarification
c. Beliefs
 d. Morality
54. To set curricula for education of nurses, midwives, and nursing auxiliaries is?
a. Code of ICN (International council of nurses)
b. Code of PNC (Pakistan nursing council)
c. Function of PNC (Pakistan nursing council)
d. Function of PNF (Pakistan nurses federation)
55. The nurse acts as a health care advocate for a client wishing to die in peace is?
a. Beneficence
b. Altruism
c. Veracity
d. Human dignity
56. The process of differences among groups culture is?
a. Culture assimilation
b. Cultural differences
c. Cultural relativity
d. Cultural values
57. Current issues or issues to be consider ethical dilemmas are?
a. Assisted suicide (Euthanasia)
b. Abortions
c. Designer babies
d. All of the above
e. None of the above

58. Environmental beauty, harmony & pleasant environment are of which type of value?
a. Aesthetic value
b. Religious value
c. Political value
d. Social value
59. Ethics applied to life is called?
a. Business ethics
b. Philosophical ethics
c. Bioethics
d. Metaethics

60.Medical doctor who both promoted and assisted with suicides for nine years in the United States prior to

being convicted of second-degree murder for issuing a lethal injection

a) "Jack Kevorkian
b) "Auguste Comte
c) "fidelity
d) critical social theory

61.Changing an organism by changing its genes

 a) diagnostic testing
b) genetic screening
c) beneficence
d) genetic engineering

62.According to Anthony Flew, currently means "easy death as an escape from some condition, usually

terminal, and felt by the patient to be intolerable

a) active euthanasia
b) euthanasia
c) ethics
d) autonomy

63.In a genetic context, genetic screening for inherited diseases

a) Anne Boykin
b) therapeutic cloning
c) diagnostic testing
d) genetic engineering

64.Occurs when people do not interfere with the normal process of dying

a) Anne Boykin
b) passive euthanasia
c) utilitarianism
d) euthanasia

65.Research using stem cells usually harvested from human embryos

a) beneficence
b) stem cell research
c) Jeremy Bentham

66.Framework used for planning and implementing nursing care with a primary focus on identifying actual
or potential problems related to the patient's health status; may also be used as an ethical decision-making

process

a) nursing process
b) eugenics
c) caring ethics
d) surrogacy
67.Wrote about humanistic transpersonal caring in Nursing: Human Science and Human Care; A Theory of

Nursing (1985) and describes nursing as the science of caring

a) Roe v Wade
b) altruism
c) abortion
d) Jean Watson

68.In this context, someone who speaks up on behalf of a patient

a) veracity
b) abortion
c) surrogacy
d) advocate

69.Study of human genetics and methods to improve physical and mental characteristics

a) eugenics
b) autonomy
c) justice
d) ethics

70. The nurse honors the right of cancer client to refuse chemotherapy is?

a) Equality

b) Justice

c) Truth

d) Human dignity
 KEY: 36. A
1. C 37. A
2. A 38. C
3. A 39. C
4. B 40. C
5. A 41. C
6. A 42. C
7. B 43. E
8. B 44. A
9. A 45. A
10. B 46. D
11. A 47. D
12. C 48. C
13. C 49. A
14. C 50. D
15. B 51. A
16. A 52. C
17. A 53. A
18. B 54. C
19. A 55. D
20. A 56. B
21. A 57. D
22. D 58. A
23. A 59. C
24. B 60. A
25. A 61. D
26. B 62. B
27. C 63. C
28. A 64. B
29. B 65. B
30. B 66. A
31. B 67. D
32. D 68. D
33. B 69. A
34. D 70. D
35. C