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:
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
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:
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
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?
d. Living will
a. Autonomy
b. Beneficence
c. Nonmaleficence
d. Justice
8. A 97-year-old client with renal failure has been hospitalized frequently during
the past year. The client expresses “not wanting to go on like this” and fears
being put on a “breathing machine” as her condition worsen. Which of these
documents could the nurse suggest that the client sign to ensure his/her
wishes are carried out?
a. Durable Power of Attorney in Health Care
d. Living will
b. Patient preferences
10.A nurse who supports a patient and family’s need to make decisions that is
right for them practicing which of the following ethical principles?
a. Autonomy
b. Confidentiality
c. Veracity
d. Fidelity
11.Gwen rides the elevator to the fifth floor where her husband is a patient.
While on the elevator, Gwen hears two staff nurses talking Erwin, her
husband. They were discussing the potential prognosis and whether he
should be told of it. The staff nurses are violating which of the following
ethical principles?
a. Autonomy
b. Confidentiality
c. Beneficence
d. Nonmaleficence
12.When an ethical dilemma arise, the primary role of the ethics committee is
to:
c. Provide guidance for the health care team and family of the patient
d. Prevent ethical dilemmas from occurring
a. Beneficence
b. Nonmaleficence
c. Veracity
d. Justice
14.Ethical dilemmas are part of nursing practice. When the nurse performs an
act applying the laws of the Supreme Being, he/she is following what ethical
principle or approach?
a. Virtue ethics
c. Deontological ethics
d. Teleological ethics
16.The nurse is duty-bound to assist her clients and significant others towards
their recovery. In the advocacy role, the nurse:
d. It states that one should act only if the action is based on a principle
that is universal
a. Code of ethics
b. Accountability
c. Graduate education
d. Professional organization
20.Ms. Vina Briz knows that all patients have the right to nursing interventions
regardless of their race, religion, or gender. The ethical principle that best
describes this concept is:
a. Nonmaleficence
b. Justice
c. Autonomy
d. Beneficence
21.Nurse Paul, who works in a nursing home, loves photography and brings his
camera to work. He takes a picture of one of his co-workers while walking a
patient. Nurse Paul has just:
22.Which moral principle is the nurse applying by deciding what is best for a
client and acting without consulting the individual?
a. Beneficence
b. Paternalism
c. Fidelity
d. Autonomy
23.If the staff nurse allows the publication of a picture in a newspaper of national
circulation of a malformed baby without the consent of the parents, his/her
action constitutes:
a. Defamation
b. Invasion of privacy
c. False imprisonment
d. Battery
24.The right of the patient to make his/her own decision is related to which
principle?
b. Autonomy
c. Justice
d. Misdemeanor
25.It refers to tan ethical basis of nursing practice that view the rightness or
wrongness of a nursing act depends on the nature of the nursing act, rather
than its consequences is:
a. Deontological theory
b. Teleological theory
c. Virtue ethics
d. Paternalism
26.The client has not finished any formal education. The nurse provides
complete and accurate information to the client despite his ignorance. The
nurse supports the decision of the patient regarding his care. The principle
that is exemplified is termed:
a. Responsibility
b. Advocacy
c. Accountability
d. Competence
27.The public health nurse witnessed the selling of free medications by the
municipal health officer in the rural health unit. Which of the following should
the nurse do?
30.We ought to avoid inflicting evil, injury or harm to our patient is based on
what ethical principle?
a. Beneficence
b. Duty of self-improvement
c. Justice
d. Nonmaleficence
b. Ethical dilemmas
d. They provide guidance that assists with decisions related to ethics and
nursing practice
34.The duty to do good to others and maintain a balance between those items
that may cause harm and those that may cause good is called:
a. Fidelity
b. Nonmaleficence
c. Beneficence
d. Veracity
c. The patient has the right to review the records of themselves and their
family members
36.Good Samaritan laws were enacted to protect health care professionals from
legal liability. An example of care rendered that does not fall into this
category is:
c. A nurse who stops her car to care for a hit and run victim
37.The nurse taking care of a 75-year old male patient diagnosed of a terminal
cancer explained all the procedures done to him. He patient cannot seem to
understand the explanation of the nurse. The nurse left the patient without
saying anything. What ethical principle was violated?
a. Veracity
b. Beneficence
c. Advocacy
d. Confidentiality
a. It is used to punish nurses who will not follow the ethical principles
promulgated in the code
b. It is used to improve the practice of nursing in the country
39.The nurse prevents the patient from being harmed by removing sharps and
deadly objects away from the patient. What ethical principle is this?
a. Veracity
b. Beneficence
c. Nonmaleficence
d. Justice
40.It obligates nurses to carry out their promises to care for patients with faithful
attention. Sometimes unfamiliar ethical terminology and perceived legal
threats put strain on nurses as they try to carry out their duty of promise.
What ethical principle is this?
a. Autonomy
b. Surrogacy
c. Justice
d. Fidelity