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Fundamentals of Nursing

Review Questions

Fundamentals of NursingReview Questions

Review Questions

1 .
Where do most people encounter their first education on values?
  1. elementary school
  2. friends
  3. church
  4. parents
2 .
Respecting an individual’s decision not to participate in a research study is an example of what value?
  1. autonomy
  2. altruism
  3. social Justice
  4. integrity
3 .
A nurse enters a patient’s room and discovers their college nemesis, a person who made their life miserable while in school. Why might this be considered?
  1. an opportunity to show integrity
  2. a time to use a conscientious objection
  3. a conflict of interest
  4. an opportunity to be altruistic
4 .
A nurse is determining a patient’s needs regarding end-of-life care. At which stage of the nursing process is this most likely to happen?
  1. assessment
  2. diagnosis
  3. implementation
  4. evaluation
5 .
The treatment team is discussing desirous outcomes and plans for a patient upon discharge. The team feels there is only one way to proceed with the plan. The nurse states the patient must be involved in their final decision. What value is the nurse representing?
  1. altruism
  2. autonomy
  3. human dignity
  4. integrity
6 .
A nursing student is learning the nursing Standards of Professional Practice and is trying to understand the standard and competencies about advocacy. What set of nursing standards is the student focusing on?
  1. Standards of Professional Practice
  2. Standards of Professional Performance
  3. Standards of Ethical Practice
  4. Standards of Professional Ethics
7 .
The provision two of the Code of Ethics for Nurses states “the nurse’s primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, group, community, or population.” What interpretive statement best reflects this provision?
  1. Respect human dignity and all human rights no matter the nature of the illness.
  2. Protect the privacy and confidentiality of patients.
  3. Nurses are responsible for caring for themselves as they care for patients.
  4. Address conflicts of interest to preserve patient safety first, then professional integrity.
8 .
What is the ethical theoretical approach that carries an underlying assumption that human beings are mutually dependent on each other and need respect, protection, and concern?
  1. care-based approach
  2. principlism
  3. virtue ethics
  4. feminist ethics
9 .
Lucy is working on a busy medical-surgical unit. One evening she cares for a very sick patient who needs to be transferred to the ICU; however, there are no beds available in the ICU. While the transfer center attempts to arrange for transfer to another facility with available ICU beds, Lucy must do her best to give the patient the care they need without having the resources available to do so. What condition might this situation cause Lucy?
  1. moral injury
  2. moral distress
  3. conscientious objection
  4. ethical dilemma
10 .
What type of law is a nursing practice act?
  1. constitutional
  2. statutory
  3. administrative
  4. common
11 .
A nurse witnesses a car wreck and knows that people are probably injured. As the only healthcare provider currently on the scene, the nurse attempts to give aid to the victims of the wreck. A hysterical parent is screaming for help with their child, and the nurse attempts to render aid. The child’s body is very damaged, but the nurse tries to stabilize the child pending arrival of first responders. The nurse is confident that doing so is protected by which legal concept?
  1. Good Samaritan laws
  2. their state’s NPA
  3. their nursing license
  4. OSHA
12 .
What situation constitutes battery?
  1. threatening to withhold a patient’s pain medication
  2. using restraints to protect a patient from harming themselves or others
  3. discussing a patient’s name and diagnosis on an elevator with individuals who have no need to know
  4. forcibly administering medication outside of an emergency situation
13 .
What does the newly graduated nurse accurately identify as a way nurses provide advocacy for patients?
  1. protecting and educating
  2. medicating and championing
  3. caring and talking
  4. mediating and arguing
14 .
A group of nurses from several different units in a hospital have been meeting together to discuss the problems they have providing the level of patient care and advocacy they feel their patients deserve. What strategy might be most effective to advocate for change in their hospital?
  1. One nurse decides she needs to speak to the Director of Nursing and ask for longer working hours.
  2. Individual nurses speak separately with their nurse managers about staffing issues on their respective units.
  3. The group of nurses decides to speak to the Director of Nursing about short staffing issues and the impact it has on patient care and advocacy throughout the facility.
  4. Two of the nurses decide to go to the Director of Nursing and say they will quit if more staff are not hired.
15 .
In what kinds of environments are nurses most likely to be able to advocate for themselves and their patients?
  1. organizations that lack a culture of shared decision-making
  2. environments in which nurses frequently have to use work-arounds to provide effective patient care
  3. organizations with a strong culture of shared decision-making
  4. environments with a strong focus on task completion
16 .
A nurse is working with a patient, attempting to determine whether there are any needs beyond immediate healthcare needs with which the patient needs assistance. What question might illicit this information?
  1. How many children are currently living with you?
  2. In the last twelve months, how often did you worry that your food would run out before you had money to buy more?
  3. How often in the last twelve months have you and your family been able to engage in recreational activities?
  4. When you are going grocery shopping or coming to doctor appointments, what kind of transportation do you use?
17 .
What two laws protect whistleblowers?
  1. Whistleblower Protection Act; Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
  2. NPA; No FEAR Act
  3. Occupational Safety and Health Act; Americans with Disabilities Act
  4. No FEAR Act; Affordable Care Act
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