Ch. 6 Prep U
Nurses practice the professional value of autonomy when providing nursing care for clients. Which nursing actions best describe the use of this value?
-A nurse reads The Patient Care Partnership to a visually impaired client. • A nurse collaborates with other health care team members to ensure the best possible treatment for a client.
Nurses practicing in a critical care unit must acquire specialized skills and knowledge to provide care to the critically ill client. These nurses can validate this specialty competence through what process?
Certification
A nurse provides client care within a philosophy of ethical decision making and professional expectations. What is the nurse using as a framework for practice?
Code of Ethics A professional code of ethics provides a framework for making ethical decisions and sets forth professional expectations. Codes of ethics inform both nurses and society of the primary goals and values of the profession.
What is the legal source of rules of conduct for nurses
Nurse Practice Acts
Professional regulations and laws that govern nursing practice are primarily in place for which reason
to protect the safety of the public
Which word is best described by the following: the protection and support of another's rights?
Advocacy
An HIV-positive client discovers that his name is published in a research report on HIV care prepared by his nurse. He is hurt and files a lawsuit against her. Which offense has the nurse committed?
Invasion of privacy
A registered nurse has had her license suspended after being convicted of being impaired at work. What governing body has the authority to revoke or suspend a nurse's license
The State Board of Nurse Examiners
What is included in the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses?
The nurse advances the profession by actions such as meeting continuing education requirements. • The nurse advocates for clients and encourages clients to advocate for themselves. • The nurse delivers care in a nonjudgmental manner that is sensitive to client diversity. • The nurse takes action to promote safe and appropriate care environments.
Nurses who value client advocacy follow what guideline?
They give priority to the good of the individual client rather than to the good of society in general.
Institutional policies
are guidelines developed by healthcare institutions to direct professional practice.
Personal values
are ideas or beliefs a person considers highly important and are learned through interactions with social systems as described previously.
Professional ethics
are values held by a group deemed as having generalizable application and standards of conduct to be upheld in all situations.
standards of care
can also refer to informal or formal guidelines that are generally accepted in the medical community for treatment of a disease or condition. It may be developed by a specialist society or organization and the title of standard of care awarded at their own discretion. It can be a clinical practice guideline, a formal diagnostic and treatment process a doctor will follow for a patient with a certain set of symptoms or a specific illness
Code Of Ethics
delineates the conduct and responsibilities expected of all nurses in their nursing practices
A nursing student is studying the principle of autonomy. Which example most accurately depicts this principle
describing surgery to a client before the consent is signed
Personal morality
is the set of beliefs about the standards of right and wrong that help a person determine the correct or permissible action in a given situation.
Which action most clearly demonstrates a nurse's commitment to social justice?
lobbying for an expansion of Medicare eligibility and benefits
