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Values, Ethics, and
Advocacy
CHAPTER^6
PRACTICING FOR NCLEX
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
Circle the letter that corresponds to the best
answer for each question.
1.When a nurse is able to recognize that an ethi-
cal moment has occurred with a patient, he/
she is experiencing which of the following
ethical abilities?
a.Ethical responsiveness
b.Ethical reasoning
c.Ethical sensibility
d.Ethical valuing
2.A nurse who is caring for a new mother realizes
that the woman is not prepared to go home
with her newborn after a hospital stay of only
24 hours, but hospital policy dictates that the
mother be discharged. This nurse may be faced
with which of the following moral problems?
a.Ethical uncertainty
b.Ethical distress
c.Ethical dilemma
d.Ethical dissatisfaction
3.Which of the following principles applies to
utilitarian action guiding theory?
a.The rightness or wrongness of an action
depends on the consequences the action
produces.
b.An action is right or wrong independent of
the consequences it produces.c.An action is right or wrong depending on
the process used to arrive at the action.
d.The rightness or wrongness of an action is
not dependent on the process used to arrive
at the action.
4.Which of the following guidelines was devel-
oped by the American Hospital Association to
enumerate the rights and responsibilities of
patients while receiving hospital care?
a.Code of Ethics
b.Patient Bill of Rights
c.Biomedical ethics
d.Hospital patient advocacy
5.Which of the following elements of ethical
agency could be described as the cultivated
dispositions that allow one to act as one
believes one ought to act?
a.Ethical sensibility
b.Ethical responsiveness
c.Ethical character
d.Ethical valuing
6.When a nurse provides the information and
support that patients and their families need
to make the decision that is right for them,
he/she is practicing which of the following
principles of bioethics?
a.Autonomy
b.Nonmaleficence
c.Justice
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