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Nursing Ethics Practice Test Question 1 Professional accountability serves for the following purpose except for: To provide basis for ethical decision To respect the decision of the client. To ma... intain standards of health To evaluate new professional practices and reassess existing ones Question 1 Explanation:Autonomy not accountability respects the decision made by the client. The purposes of professional accountability are: • To provide basis for ethical decision • To maintain standards of health • To evaluate new professional practices and reassess existing ones Question 2 The portion of ethics that centers on the extent to which judgments are reasonable or otherwise justifiable is: Mataethics Normative ethics Descriptive ethics All of these Question 2 Explanation:Metaethics is concerned with theoretical issues of meaning and justification. It is the portion of ethics that centers on the extent to which judgments are reasonable or otherwise justifiable. Normative ethics raises a question about what is right or what to be done in a situation that calls for an ethical decision. Descriptive ethics presents a factual narration of moral behaviors. Question 3 The fundamental responsibility of a nurse according to the International Council of Nurse Code for Nurses are the following apart from: Prevention of illness Promotion of health Restoration of health Aggravation of suffering Question 3 Explanation:The fundamental responsibility of the nurse is to promote heath, prevent illness, restore health and alleviate (not aggravate) suffering. Question 4 Nursing ethics provides the standards for professional behavior and is the study of principles of right and wrong for nurses. This set of standards states the duties and obligations of nurses to: Client Other health professionals Community All of these Question 4 Explanation:Nursing ethics states the duties and obligations of nurses to clients, other health professionals, profession and community. Question 5 Before the nurse administered the client’s medication she assessed the client’s needs for drugs, and followed the “rights” in drug preparation and administration. After the nurse has given the dose, she evaluated the client’s response to the medication given. The nurse is promoting: Accountability Autonomy Responsibility Veracity Question 5 Explanation:Responsibility is the execution of duties associated with nurse’s particular role. Accountability means being answerable to one’s own actions. Veracity is truth telling. Question 6 Deciding whether prolonging life in a terminally ill client or doing euthanasia (mercy killing) is an example of what type of ethics? Mataethics Normative ethics Descriptive ethic [Show More]

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