Ethics Quiz 2

True or False: The Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission of the State of Washington is responsible for putting the NPA Laws (RCW) and Rules (WAC) into place.

FALSE

Which of the following choices are included in the Six Standards of Nursing Practice? (select all that apply)

Accountability Continuing Competence Self-Regulation Professional Leadership

What is another way to describe or define the meaning of integrity?

Honesty - "talk the talk, walk the walk"

Which of the following can be a "patient"? (select all that apply)

Individual Family Group Community

The Washington State Nurse Practice Act (NPA) is part of ... (select all that apply)

RCW (Revised Code of Washington) WAC (Washington Administrative Code)

Florence Nightingale had responsibility for what part of the Nurse Practice Act?

She had no responsibility for the NPA

Disciplinary action of a licensed nurse (LPN or RN) is public information

TRUE

Professional codes of ethics function as a guide to the highest standards of thical practice for nurses. They are not legally binding.

TRUE

Which of the following would be a violation of HIPAA

Telling an unknown caller the patient's condition

Which governmental entity is responsible for the enforcement of HIPAA?

The US Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Civil Rights

The fourth, fifth, and sixth provisions of the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics address ...

The individual nurse's responsibility and accountability in nursing practice, as well as the promotion of safe, quality health care.

A nurse is often required to work within the "scope of employment" as well as the "scope of practice". When the two conflict, which scope should the nurse follow?

The scope of practice

If there is a local celebrity on your floor, when would it be appropriate to look at their electronic medical record?

When providing direct care

The first, second, and third provisions of American Nurses Association Code of Ethics address ...

direct patient care and describe the most fundamental values and commitments of the nurse.

The fifth provision of the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics covers ... (select all that apply)

duties to self and others promotion of personal health, safety, and well-being preservation of wholeness of character preservation of integrity maintenance of competence and continuation of professional growth continuation of personal growth

Which of the moral principles below best justifies this provision of American Nurses Association Code of Ethics: "The nurse's primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, group, community or population."

fidelity

The Revised Code of Washington (RCW) is a set of ...

laws

The first provision of the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics covers ... (select all that apply)

respect for human dignity relationships with patients the nature of health the right of patient's to self-determiniation relationships with colleagues and others.

The Washington Administrative Code (WAC) is a set of ...

rules

The fourth provision of the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics covers (select all that apply)

the authority, accountability, and responsibility of nurses accountability for nursing judgment, decisions, and actions responsibility for nursing judgment, decisions, and action assignment and delegation of nursing activities or tasks.

The sixth provision of the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics covers ... (select all that apply)

the environment and moral virtue the environment and ethical obligation responsibility for the healthcare environment

The second provision of the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics covers ... (select all that apply)

the primacy of the patient's interests conflict of interest for nurses collaboration professional boundaries

The third provision of the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics covers ...

the protection of the patient's right to privacy and confidentiality the protection of human participants in research performance standards and review mechanisms professional responsibilities in promoting a culture of safety protection of patient health and safety by acting on questionable practice patient protection and impaired practice

The Principle of autonomy requires us

to respect a person's ability to make his or her decisions.