TEST BANK FOR FOUNDATIONS OF MATERNAL-NEWBORN AND WOMEN’S HEALTH NURSING 7TH EDITION BY MURRAY

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Chapter 02: Social, Ethical, and Legal Issues Foundations of Maternal-Newborn & Women’s Health Nursing, 7th Edition 1.A medical-surgical nurse is asked to float to a women’s health unit to care fo... r patients who are scheduled for therapeutic abortions. The nurse refuses to accept this assignment and expresses her personal beliefs as being incongruent with this medical practice. The nursing supervisor states that the unit is short-staffed and the nurse is familiar with caring for postoperative patients. In consideration of legal and ethical practices, can the nursing supervisor enforce this assignment? a. The staff nurse has the responsibility of accepting any assignment that is made while working for a health care unit, so the nursing supervisor is within his or her rights to enforce this assignment. b. Because the unit is short-staffed, the staff nurse should accept the assignment to provide care by benefit of her or his experience to patients who need care. c. The staff nurse has expressed a legitimate concern based on his or her feelings; the nursing supervisor does not have the authority to enforce this assignment. d. The nursing supervisor should emphasize that this assignment requires care of a surgical patient for which the staff nurse is adequately trained and should therefore enforce the assignment. 2.A nurse working in a labor and birth unit is asked to take care of two high-risk patients in the labor and birth suite: a 34 weeks’ gestation 28-year-old gravida 3, para 2 in preterm labor and a 40-year-old gravida 1, para 0 who is severely preeclamptic. The nurse refuses this assignment telling the charge nurse that based on individual patient acuity, each patient should have one-on-one care. Which ethical principle is the nurse advocating? a. Accountability b. Beneficence c. Justice d. Fidelity 3.7. Which patient will most likely seek prenatal care? a. A 15-year-old patient who tells her friends, “I just don’t believe that I am pregnant” b. A 28-year-old who is in her second pregnancy and abuses drugs and alcohol c. A 20-year-old who is in her first pregnancy and has access to a free prenatal clinic d. [Show More]

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