1. While Nurse Marc was administering medications, he realizes that he has given the wrong dose
to the client. He acts by completing an incident report
... [Show More] and notifying the client’s physician. The
nurse is exercising:
a. Authority
b. Decision making
c. Responsibility
d. Accountability
2. Nurse Leah is assessing the client for pain and then offers a plan to manage the pain, the
principle that encourages her to monitor client’s response to the plan is:
a. Respect for autonomy
b. Nonmaleficence
c. Beneficence
d. Fidelity
3. Nurses agree to be advocates for their clients. The practice for advocacy calls for the nurse to:
a. Assess the client’s point of view and prepare to articulate this point of view
b. Work to understand the law as it applies to the client’s clinical condition
c. Document all clinical changes in the medical record in a timely manner
d. Seek out the nursing supervisor in conflicting situation
4. Ethical dilemmas often arise over a conflict of opinion. Once the nurse has determined that the
dilemma is ethical, a critical first step in negotiating the difference of opinion would be to:
a. List the ethical principles that is involve in the dilemma so that negotiations can agree on
the language of discussion
b. Ensure that the attending physician or health care provided has written an order for an
ethics consultation to support the ethics process
c. Gather all relevant information regarding the clinical, social, and spiritual aspects of the
dilemma
d. Consult a professional ethicist to ensure that the steps of the process occur in full
5. Patient Marwin told the nurse that he has a paper that says that his wife is supposed to make
decisions about this health if he becomes incapacitated. Marwin is describing what document?
a. Written advance directive
b. Durable power of attorney
c. Oral advance directive
d. Living will
6. A nurse stopped at an accident scene and began to provide emergency care for the victims. Her
actions are best labeled ethically as:
a. Autonomy
b. Beneficence
c. Nonmaleficence
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