BSN 206 SHERPATH Week 1
provision 1 of Code of Ethics - correct answer ✔The nurse practices with
compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and unique
attributions of every person.
provision 2 of Code of Ethics - correct answer ✔The nurse's primary
commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, group, community,
or population.
provision 3 of Code of Ethics - correct answer ✔The nurses promotes,
advocates for, and protects the rights, health, and safety of the patient.
provision 4 of Code of Ethics - correct answer ✔The nurse has authority,
accountability, and responsibility for nursing practice; makes decisions; and
takes action consistent with the obligation to promote health and to provide
optimal care.
provision 5 of Code of Ethics - correct answer ✔The nurse owes the same
duties to self as to others, including the responsibility to promote health and
safety, preserve wholeness of character and integrity, maintain competence,
and continue personal and professional growth.
provision 6 of Code of Ethics - correct answer ✔The nurse, through
individual and collective effort, establishes, maintains, and improves the
ethical environment of the work setting and conditions of employment that are
conducive to safe, quality health care.
provision 7 of Code of Ethics - correct answer ✔The nurse, in all roles and
settings, advances the profession through research and scholarly inquiry,
, professional standards development, and the generation of both nursing and
health policy.
provision 8 of Code of Ethics - correct answer ✔The nurse collaborates with
other health professionals and the public to protect human rights, promote
health diplomacy, and reduce health disparities.
provision 9 of Code of Ethics - correct answer ✔The profession of nursing,
collectively through its professional organizations, must articulate nursing
values, maintain the integrity of the profession, and integrate principles of
social justice into nursing and health policy.
Provision 1 has the following interpretive statements that provide specific
behaviors for practice: - correct answer ✔1.1 Respect for human dignity
1.2 Relationship for patients
1.3 The nature of health problems
1.4 The right to self-determination
1.5 Relationships with colleagues and others
LPNs, or LVNs as they are called in California and Texas, - correct answer
✔are a minimum entry into nursing licensure. Their education takes 12 to 18
months to complete, and then they are eligible to take the National Council
Licensure Examination for Practical Nurses (NCLEX-PN) to practice as an
LPN/LVN. Within their licensure, they practice under the supervision of an RN,
and many work in long-term care settings. The scope of practice for an
LPN/LVN is limited, and they function in a task-oriented role that does not
allow use of the nursing process. They may choose to complete an LPN/LVN-
to-RN bridge program to become an RN.
RN student nurses - correct answer ✔may attend a 2-, 3-, or 4-year nursing
degree program to be eligible to sit for the state licensing examination called
