Intro to Nursing Concepts, PrepUs Ch 6

Which statement by the nurse is an example of deception?

"This injection of procaine will feel like a little pinch."

A client tells the nurse that the client does not want to have a painful procedure. By respecting and supporting the client's right to make decisions, the nurse is demonstrating: __________.

Advocacy

Using the nursing process to make ethical decisions involves following several steps. Which step is the nurse implementing when reflecting on the decision-making process and the role it will play in making future decisions?

Evaluating

A nurse practices the ethical principle of autonomy when providing nursing care for clients. Which nursing actions best describe the use of this value? Select all that apply.

A nurse reads The Patient Care Partnership to a visually impaired client. A nurse asks the surgeon to further explain details of a surgery to a client before obtaining informed consent.

A school nurse interviewing parents of a child who is doing poorly in school determines that the parents practice a laissez-faire method of discipline. What are examples of this form of value transmission? Select all that apply.

A teenage girl tries alcohol at a party with her friends. A teenage boy explores religions of friends in hopes of developing his own faith.

An illegal immigrant with no health insurance sustained life-threatening injuries in an automobile accident. Which action in this case demonstrates the ethical principle of justice?

Airlifting the client to a local trauma center for emergency surgery

Which example best describes feminist ethics?

An approach critiquing existing patterns of oppression and domination in society.

A nurse volunteers to serve on the hospital ethics committee. Which action should the nurse expect to take as a member of the ethics committee?

Assist in decision making based on the client's best interests.

When examining values, a nurse notes that one country allows physician-assisted suicide and another outlaws it, making it punishable by imprisonment. Which factors best explain the differences in values between these two countries?

Cultural

Which example most accurately depicts the ethical principle of autonomy?

Describing a surgery to a client before the consent is signed.

A female client is brought to the emergency room with matted hair, bruising, and malnutrition. The nurse suspects physical abuse and neglect. The nurse states, "This happens to many women." Which type of ethical approach is the nurse exhibiting?

Feminist

The nurse beginning practice would like to access the standards for ethical practice. Which organization should the nurse research for these standards?

International Council of Nurses

A parent of a 17-year-old high school student is allowing the child to decide which college the child will attend. When the child requests direction from the parent in making this decision, the parent responds by stating, "You will need to make this decision on your own." What type of value transmission is the parent displaying?

Laissez-faire

The nurse is managing the care for a postoperative client. How does the nurse demonstrate advocacy?

Limiting visitors due to the client reporting pain

A nurse obtains an order for a bed alarm for a confused client. This is an example of which ethical principle?

Paternalism

The nurse has an ethical conflict regarding the client's use of marijuana to control symptoms of advanced cancer. Which argument(s) regarding this conflict reflect a utilitarian approach? Select all that apply.

The client experiences significant reduction of cancer symptoms when using marijuana. The client is homebound and will not be driving. There is little opportunity for any other persons to divert or use the marijuana the client

Ethics

The formal, systematic study of moral beliefs

A client is brought to the emergency department by an adult child, who states, "I am unable to care for my parent anymore. Although I would like to, financially and physically I can't do it anymore." What ethical problem is the adult child experiencing?

Distress

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.