Chapter 6 Ethics and Professional Nursing

Chapter 6  Ethics and Professional Nursing

Complete Chapter Questions And Answers
 

Sample Questions

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. Who authored the first ethics textbook, Nursing Ethics for Hospital and Private Use?
a.
Florence Nightingale
c.
Isabel Hampton Robb
b.
Lillian Wald
d.
Abraham Flexner

ANS: C PTS: 1

2. The roles of the state boards of nursing can include:
a.
overseeing schools of nursing within the states.
b.
enforcing the individual state’s nurse practice acts.
c.
disciplining nurses.
d.
all of the above.

ANS: D PTS: 1

3. The minimum expectations for safe nursing care can be defined as:
a.
accountability.
c.
expertise.
b.
standards of nursing practice.
d.
authority.

ANS: B PTS: 1

4. Who was the first nursing theorist to write about caring?
a.
Martha Rogers
c.
Madeleine Leninger
b.
Jean Watson
d.
Margaret Newman

ANS: C PTS: 1

5. Standards of nursing practice are developed within the profession to describe practice and establish the minimum level of safe practice. The purpose of standards of nursing practice can include:
a.
helping to ensure that nurses are competent and safe to practice.
b.
serving as a guide for nurses providing care.
c.
determining whether the actions of nurses accused of malpractice are consistent with reasonable expectations.
d.
all of the above.

ANS: D PTS: 1