QUIZ # CU 13

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1. What is the distribution of nurses to areas of most need in the time of a nursing
shortage an example of?
a. Justice
b. Beneficence
c. Patients’ rights
d. Nonmaleficence
2. Professional accountability serves for the following purpose except for:
a. To provide basis for ethical decision
b. To respect decision of patient
c. Maintain standards of health
d. To evaluate new professional practices
3.  A client is advised by the doctor to undergo chemotherapy. An informed consent is
not yet signed. This client requests information related to chemotherapy and the drugs
that will be given to him. The nurse explained the side effects of the medications,
including the length of treatment and the prognosis of the disease. The nurse answered
all the questions of the client honestly even though the client may choose not to
undergo chemotherapy. The nurse in this situation is promoting:
a. Justice
b. Veracity
c. Confidentiality
d. Privacy
4. Before the nurse administered the client’s medication she assessed the client’s
needs for drugs, and followed the “rights” in drug preparation and administration. After
the nurse has given the dose, she evaluated the client’s response to the medication
given. The nurse is promoting:
a. Accountability
b. Veracity
c. Privacy
d. Justice
5. Nurse Janine avoids deliberate harm, risk of harm and harm that occurs during her
performance of nursing actions. The nurse is promoting which ethical principle?
a. Autonomy
b. Beneficence
c. Nonmaleficence
d. Justice
6. Being answerable to one’s action is?
a. Accountability
b. Responsibility
c. Nonmaleficence
d. Verasity
7. The client on renal dialysis informs the nurse that he wants to stop the series of
dialysis. The nurse should appropriately do which action in response to the client’s
decision?
a. Inform the client that the doctor must decide what to do
b. Tell the client to finish the series of dialysis
c. Respect the client decision and provide comfort measures
d. Leave the client and attend to other patient
8. The nurse who fails to remove a patient from an unsafe situation has violated which
bioethical principle?
a. Justice
b. Veracity
c. Fidelity
d. Beneficence
9. The nurse who respects the patient’s right to refuse treatment is following which
bioethical principle?
a. Autonomy
b. Fidelity
c. Beneficence
d. Justice
10. The RN student has been studying ethics in health care. Based on what she has
learned; how would she explain the bioethical principle of autonomy?
a. It states that the physician knows what is best for the patient.
b. It does not apply to informed consent.
c. It refers to patient self-determination.
d. It states that every patient has a right to health care.