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Nurs 2900 EXAM 3: End of Life/Ethics/Elimination/Metabolism questions with correct answers

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Nurs 2900 EXAM 3: End of
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when personal views and ethical beliefs are challenged by a situation;
can alter objectivity about situations with ethical dilemmas Correct
Answer ✓✓ What is moral distress and how does it effect ethical
decision making?


the willingness to stand up for and act according to ones' own ethical
beliefs when moral principles are threatened regardless of actual or
perceived risks Correct Answer ✓✓ What is moral courage?


the nurse-patient relationship is ALWAYS for the benefit of the patient;
when professional boundaries are ignored, this dynamic can change
leading to possible professional misconduct Correct Answer ✓✓ What
can occur if the nurse ignores professional boundaries?


refusal to perform a legal or professionally mandated duty on the basis
of personal moral beliefs; nurses can exercise this but may be fired
because the first duty of the nurse is to the patient Correct Answer ✓✓
What is conscientious refusal?


B. all information must be kept confidential unless the nurse is legally
obligated to report child/elder abuse, gunshot wounds, crimes, certain
infectious diseases, or intent to harm self or others. Correct Answer ✓✓
While the nurse is interviewing a teenage patient the patient says, "I
suppose you have to tell my parents everything." What would be the best
response by the nurse?

, a. "What are you going to tell me that is so secret I can't tell your
parents?"
b. "If you tell me you are going to hurt yourself, I will have to tell your
parents, but I will tell you first before I tell them."
c. "Everything you tell me is confidential, I will not tell your parents
anything."
d. "Everything you tell me I will have to tell your parents, they have a
right to know."


c. veracity because the procedure has not been explained properly,
which means the patient would be misled if medication was given
Correct Answer ✓✓ The nurse receives a telephone order from the
primary physician to begin an experimental medication for a patient with
AIDS. The nurse knows that the patient has not had the treatment
explained and hesitates to give it. The nurse supervisor tells the nurse to
go ahead, even though it is against hospital policy. Which of the
following ethical principle is primarily involved in this conflict?
a. beneficence
b. justice
c. veracity
d. fidelity


a. ; healthcare proxy can sign when they cannot speak for themselves
Correct Answer ✓✓ A patient who is scheduled for gallbladder surgery
is mentally impaired and is unable to communicate. With regard to

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