NURS 129 - Legal and Ethical Aspects of Gerontological
Nursing – PrepU Questions With Complete Solutions
A client provides a document identifying an adult child as being
the guardian of person for the client. What type of decision
should the guardian be expected to make?
preference for home care agency to use
permission to transfer to a rehabilitation facility
payment of the hospital bill
consent for a lumbar puncture Correct Answer consent for a
lumbar puncture
A client refuses a prescribed medication but asks the nurse to
document that it was given because of not wanting to anger the
health care provider. What action should the nurse take?
Document that the medication was given
Encourage the client to take the medication
Explain that the client's request cannot be honored
Recommend the client find a different health care provider
Correct Answer Explain that the client's request cannot be
honored
A client wants to stop all hemodialysis treatments and
understands that this decision will hasten death. The nurse
discusses the client's wishes with the healthcare provider and all
treatments are cancelled. Which ethical principle did the nurse
support for this client?
,Justice
autonomy
beneficence
confidentiality Correct Answer autonomy
A client with a terminal illness confides to the nurse about a plan
to commit suicide. The nurse most likely perceives the greatest
ethical conflict between which two areas?
Advocacy and protection
Safety and client rights
Health and terminal illness
The client and the nurse Correct Answer Safety and client
rights
A female client becomes upset when a psychiatrist enters the
client's room and begins asking questions about mental health.
What should the nurse do?
Stay in the room while the psychiatrist is interviewing the client
Ask the psychiatrist to leave the room so that the client can talk
freely
Find out who prescribed a psychiatric referral
Encourage the client to talk with the psychiatrist Correct
Answer Ask the psychiatrist to leave the room so that the client
can talk freely
, A gerontological nurse is conducting a program for a group of
nurses new to gerontological nursing practice. The nurse
emphasizes the need for the nurses to do which action to
minimize the risk for conflict with the facility and client
population they will be serving?
Adhere to nursing scope of practice.
Stick to your own set of values.
Maintain beneficence at all times,
Adopt a personal standard of care. Correct Answer Adhere to
nursing scope of practice.
A gerontological nurse is reviewing a journal article describing
the factors that have contributed to the increasing number and
complexity of ethical dilemmas that nurses face. Which situation
would the nurse identify as an important social change factor?
Expansion of the hospice movement
Outdated medical technologies
Greater numbers of older adults
Diminished fiscal constraints Correct Answer Greater numbers
of older adults
A gerontological nurse is reviewing the legal aspects associated
with gerontological nursing. The nurse identifies which situation
as being likely classified under private law?
The criminal consequences for instances of elder abuse
The legal criteria for declaring an individual mentally
incompetent
The regulation of who may call himself or herself a "nurse"
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