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Fundamental Finals
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Question | Answer |
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When a nurse is able to recognize that an ethical moment has occurred.He/she is experiencing | Ethical sensibility |
Hospital policy dictates a new mother must be discharged home within 24 hrs, although the nurse knows the woman is not prepared. What moral problem does the nurse face | Ethical distress |
What principles apply to the utilitarian action guidline | The rightness or wrongness of an action depends on the consequences the action produces |
Guideline developed by the American Hospital Association to enumerate the rights and responsibilities of patients receiving care | Patients Bill of rights |
The ethical agency that cultivates dispositions that allow one to act as one believes one ought to act | Ethical character |
When a nurse provides the patient/family members information and support needed to make their own decision that's right for them, which bioethics are being practiced | Autonomy |
The concerns of the drafters of the bill of rights | Drafted to empower nurses and to improve conditions within the workplace |
Janie wants to call an ethics consult to clarify treatment goals for a dying patient that no longer speaks. She feels his dying is painfully prolonged. She is troubled when the doctor says she will be fired, she is facing | Ethical distress |
When a nurse advocate is conflicted with patients rights and self-determination, follow the general guidelines | When in conflict, weigh in the benefits and risk of following each option and then choose wisely |
5 yr old with dietary modifications r/t diabetes is deprived of T.V. by his parents when he gets mad of being denied foods that aren't on his diet. Example of | Reward and punishing |
Professional response to a PT that says" White nurses are smarter than nurses of color" | "I don't beleive being smart is related to race or ethnicity." (Commitment to human dignity) |
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing identifies 5 values that epitomize caring professional nurse. Which is acting accordance with appropriate code of ethics/standards of practice | Integrity |
A professional nurse with a commitment to social justice is most apt to | Promote universal access to healthcare |
When a older nurse complains that nurses aren't ethical anymore, what reply reflects moral development best | The ability to behave ethically must be carefully cultivated; maybe we don't have this sufficiently to pay it the attention it deserves |
A home heath nurse that performs a careful safety assessment of a frail elderly patient to prevent harm, is acting in accord with which bioethics principles | Nonmaleficence |
A professional nurse committed to the principle of autonomy would be careful to | Provide information and support the patients needs to make a decision to advance their own interests |
Nurses who value patients advocacy follow which guidelines | They give priority to the good of the individual patient rather than to the good of society in general |