Professional Nursing Concepts & Challenges, 8th Edition By Beth Black
Professional Nursing Concepts & Challenges, 8th Edition By Beth Black
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Chapter 07: Ethics: Basic Concepts for Professional Nursing Practice
Complete Chapter Questions With Answers
Sample Questions Are Posted Below
MULTIPLE CHOICE
| a. | You hear nurses in the lounge making off-color jokes about a patient. You are afraid to speak up for fear of retaliation. |
| b. | You have been late for work a couple of times in the last 2 weeks, and your co-workers are covering for you. |
| c. | You become romantically involved with a co-worker, which is against the unit policy, so you resign your position. |
| d. | You purposefully use vague language when explaining a patient’s condition to the family. Staff expects that the patient may be brain-dead, but test results are not yet conclusive. |
ANS: A
| Feedback | |
| A | The definition of “moral distress” is distress that results from participating in a perceived moral wrongdoing due to situational constraints despite attempting to make a moral choice. |
| B | There is no breach of ethics in being late and having co-workers cover for you. |
| C | The person acts appropriately to the moral issue by resigning the position. |
| D | The person is acting appropriately under current circumstances. |
DIF: Cognitive Level: Analysis REF: Page 127
| a. | Preconventional |
| b. | Conventional |
| c. | Postconventional |
| d. | Developmental |
ANS: A
| Feedback | |
| A | In Kohlberg’s preconventional level of moral development, the individual is inattentive to the norms of society and is self-centered. |
| B | In the conventional level, moral decisions conform to the norms of society. |
| C | In the postconventional level, the individual has a highly developed moral value system independent of group norms. |
| D | “Developmental” is not a level of moral development identified by Kohlberg. |
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: Pages 129-130
| a. | Preconventional |
| b. | Conventional |
| c. | Postconventional |
| d. | Developmental |
ANS: B
| Feedback | |
| A | In Kohlberg’s preconventional level of moral development, the individual is inattentive to the norms of society and is self-centered. |
| B | In the conventional level, moral decisions conform to the norms of society. |
| C | In the postconventional level, the individual has a highly developed moral value system independent of group norms. |
| D | “Developmental” is not a level of moral development identified by Kohlberg. |
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: Page 130
| a. | Preconventional |
| b. | Conventional |
| c. | Postconventional |
| d. | Conventional phase 4 |
ANS: C
| Feedback | |
| A | In the preconventional level, the person’s self-interest takes precedence over group norms. |
| B | In the conventional level, the person conforms to group norms. |
| C | People in the postconventional level of moral development may ignore self-interest and group norms when making decisions and may sacrifice themselves for the group. |
| D | Phase 4 of the conventional level follows group and cultural norms. |
DIF: Cognitive Level: Analysis REF: Page 130
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