Legal and Ethical Considerations Practice Quiz 1
Is your knowledge about the foundation of nursing well and sound? This quiz will question your ability to handle different nursing procedures, and other concepts covered by Fundamentals of Nursing.
Topics
Topics or concepts included in this exam are:
- Nursing Jurisprudence
- Ethical Considerations
- Legal Considerations
Guidelines
To make the most out of this exam, follow the guidelines below:
- Read each question carefully and choose the best answer.
- You are given one minute per question. Spend your time wisely!
- Answers and rationales (if any) are given below. Be sure to read them.
- If you need more clarifications, please direct them to the comments section.
Q.1 The best explanation of what Title VI of the Civil Rights Act mandates is the freedom to:
A. Pick any physician and insurance company despite one’s income
B. Receive free medical benefits as needed within the county of residence
C. Have equal access to all health care regardless of race and religion
D. Have basic care with a sliding scale payment plan from all health care facilities
View AnswerQ.2 Which statement would best explain the role of the nurse when planning care for a culturally diverse population? The nurse will plan care to:
A. Include care that is culturally congruent with the staff from predetermined criteria
B. Focus only on the needs of the client, ignoring the nurse’s beliefs and practices
C. Blend the values of the nurse that are for the good of the client and minimize the client’s individual values and beliefs during care
D. Provide care while aware of one’s own bias, focusing on the client’s individual needs rather than the staff’s practices
View AnswerQ.3 Which factor is least significant during assessment when gathering information about cultural practices?
A. Language, timing
B. Touch, eye contact
C. Biocultural needs
D. Pain perception, management expectations
View AnswerQ.4 Transcultural nursing implies:
A. Using a comparative study of cultures to understand similarities and differences across human groups to provide specific individualized care that is culturally appropriate
B. Working in another culture to practice nursing within their limitations
C. Combining all cultural beliefs into a practice that is a nonthreatening approach to minimize cultural barriers for all clients’ equality of care
D. Ignoring all cultural differences to provide the best generalized care to all clients.
View AnswerQ.5 What should the nurse do when planning nursing care for a client with a different cultural background? The nurse should:
A. Allow the family to provide care during the hospital stay so no rituals or customs are broken
B. Identify how these cultural variables affect the health problem
C. Speak slowly and show pictures to make sure the client always understands
D. Explain how the client must adapt to hospital routines to be effectively cared for while in the hospital
View AnswerQ.6 Which activity would not be expected by the nurse to meet the cultural needs of the client?
A. Promote and support attitudes, behaviors, knowledge, and skills to respectfully meet client’s cultural needs despite the nurse’s own beliefs and practices
B. Ensure that the interpreter understands not only the language of the client but feelings and attitudes behind cultural practices to make sure an ethical balance can be achieved
C. Develop structure and process for meeting cultural needs on a regular basis and means to avoid overlooking these needs with clients
D. Expect the family to keep an interpreter present at all times to assist in meeting the communication needs all day and night while hospitalized
View AnswerQ.7 Ethical principles for professional nursing practice in a clinical setting are guided by the principles of conduct that are written as the:
A. American Nurses Association’s (ANA’s) Code of Ethics
B. Nurse Practice Act (NPA) written by state legislation
C. Standards of care from experts in the practice field
D. Good Samaritan laws for civil guidelines
View AnswerQ.8 A bioethical issue should be described as:
A. The physician’s making all decisions of client management without getting input from the client
B. A research project that included treating all the white men and not treating all the black men to compare the outcomes of a specific drug therapy.
C. The withholding of food and treatment at the request of the client in a written advance directive given before a client acquired permanent brain damage from an accident.
D. After the client gives permission, the physician’s disclosing all information to the family for their support in the management of the client.
View AnswerQ.9 When the nurse described the client as “that nasty old man in 354,” the nurse is exhibiting which ethical dilemma?
A. Gender bias and ageism
B. HIPPA violation
C. Beneficence
D. Code of ethics violation
View AnswerQ.10 The distribution of nurses to areas of “most need” in the time of a nursing shortage is an example of:
A. Utilitarianism theory
B. Deontological theory
C. Justice
D. Beneficence
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