Exam 8: Upholding Legal and Ethical Principles

The nurse threatens to place a verbally abusive patient in restraints. The patient could press charges against the nurse for which of the following?

A nurse is working the night shift on a respiratory floor. She is walking toward a patient's room when she sees a nursing assistant performing patient care with the curtain and door open. The nurse knows that the nursing assistant is violating which legal principle?

The nurse working in family practice is assessing an elderly female patient and notices bruises on the patient's arm and back. Which action is the most appropriate for the nurse to take?

An RN administers an ordered dose of medication over the patient's refusal. On review, the manager interprets this action to be:

The student understands the bioethical decision-making theory of utilitarianism when she makes which statement?

A nurse is working in the surgical recovery unit and is caring for a patient who is still under anesthesia. She notes that the patient's oxygen level is 82% on room air. What would the nurse be guilty of if she were to withhold oxygen from this patient?

The nurse who fails to remove a patient from an unsafe situation has violated which bioethical principle?

For the RN to practice ethical decision-making, it is most important for him or her to:

Which of the following is not considered a major law that governs our society?

A new nurse has just been hired to work at a local hospital. Which actions by the nurse show her understanding of the Patient's Bill of Rights? (Select all that apply.)

The nurse accidentally administers the wrong dose of a medication. Her first action would be to:

The nursing student knows that ethics is a part of which branch?

A nurse manager is preparing a presentation on negligence to present at the next staff meeting. She would not consider which as a form of negligence?

Steps the RN can take to reduce the risk of malpractice include all of the following except:

The four elements that must be present for a person to recover damages as the result of alleged malpractice are duty, breach of duty, actual injury, and:

Which statement made by the nursing student indicates an accurate understanding of culturally competent care?

The nurse has an adequate understanding of a tort when she makes which statement?

Which statement is correct about the bioethical decision-making theory of deontology?

A nurse is working with a patient who is well known to the public. Shortly before lunch, a news reporter walks into the nursing unit and begins questioning the nurse. The nurse knows that if she gives out patient information without the patient's consent, she would be failing to comply with which law?

Which statements by the nursing student describe how ethics help nurses solve dilemmas in health care? (Select all that apply.)