Chapter 10 Practice Issues Related to Technology

Chapter 10  Practice Issues Related to Technology

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Sample Questions

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. Which of the following can be both a benefit and challenge of technological advances in health care?
a.
Supports healthy living
c.
Can prolong living
b.
Availability and cost
d.
Alleviates suffering

ANS: C PTS: 1

2. In assessing a patient’s quality of life (QOL), the nurse needs to understand that QOL:
a.
is an objective measure of comfort and factors that make life worth living.
b.
is only considered good if the patient feels fulfilled and can be independent.
c.
generally means the same thing to most patients, families, and nurses.
d.
includes subjective ideas about conditions of life and functional ability.

ANS: D PTS: 1

3. Since a prime nursing focus is to relieve suffering, nurses must understand that health care technologies:
a.
are good because they always support a patient’s health and well-being.
b.
may cause conflict between doing good and avoiding harm to patients.
c.
are necessary interventions even if they cause patients to suffer.
d.
may cause nurses to do harmful things to patients against their wishes.

ANS: B PTS: 1

4. Appropriate utilization of health care technology requires that health care providers, patients, and families understand its:
a.
purpose, benefits, limitations.
c.
outcomes, benefits, cost.
b.
cost, availability, usefulness.
d.
risks, availability, purpose.

ANS: A PTS: 1

5. Ethical dilemmas that arise from use of life-sustaining technologies may be associated with all of the following except:
a.
attitudes and beliefs about when life begins.
b.
attitudes about what constitutes death.
c.
unreasonable expectations of medical interventions.
d.
similar opinions regarding use of technology.

ANS: D PTS: 1