Chapter 02: Ethical and Legal Issues

Chapter 02: Ethical and Legal Issues

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MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. The difference between ethics and morals is that ethics

ANS:  A

Ethics are concerned with the basis of the action rather than whether the action is right or wrong, good or bad.

2. A client’s wife has been informed by the physician that her spouse has a permanent C2–C3 spinal injury, which has resulted in permanent quadriplegia. The wife states that she does not want the physician or nursing staff to tell the client about his injury. The client is awake, alert, and oriented when he asks his nurse to tell him what has happened. The nurse has conflicting emotions about how to handle the situation and is experiencing

ANS:  B

The nurse has been placed in a situation initially causing moral distress and is struggling with determining the ethically appropriate action to take. Moral courage is the freedom to advocate for oneself, patients, and peers. Autonomy is an ethical principle. Moral doubt is not part of the AACN framework The 4A’s to Rise Above Moral Distress.

3. Critical care nurses can best enhance the principle of autonomy by

ANS:  C

Clients and families must have all the information about a certain situation to make an autonomous decision that is best for them.

4. Which of the following ethical principles is most important when soliciting informed consent from a client?

ANS:  D

Veracity is important when soliciting informed consent because the client needs to be aware of all potential risks of and benefits to be derived from specific treatments or their alternatives.

5. Fidelity includes faithfulness and promise-keeping to clients, and it incorporates the added concepts of

ANS:  A

Confidentiality is a right involving the sharing of client information with only those involved in the client’s care. Privacy includes confidentiality but goes further to include the right to privacy of person and personal space, such as ensuring that a client is adequately covered during a procedure.