Nursing Ethics, Jurisprudence, and Professional Standards

Nursing Ethics, Law, and Professional Practice

1. Professional Nursing Bodies and Morality

• Professional nursing bodies.
• Morality and care are at the heart of nursing.
• Nurses justify and defend their positions.
• All correct. All correct.

2. Philosophical Study of Morality

• Philosophical study of morality.
• The question of what is right or wrong.
• Applied ethics.
• Ethical dilemma.
• Moral distress.
• Ethical theory.
• A value.
• Professional value.
• Utilitarianism.
• Theory patterns and behaviors.
• Ethical principles.
• Suggested standards of moral behavior and independent end.
• Autonomy.
• Feminine ethics.
• Relational ethics.
• Moral Indigenous people.

3. Virtue, Morality, and Decision-Making

• Virtue and morality in nurses.
• Framework and guide.
• Provide safe care.
• Promote and respect decision-making.
• Seven primary values.
• Canadians are more diverse with different healthcare needs.
• More than one intervention may be ethical.
• Ethical decision-making model.
• Various views and lenses on issues.
• Accountability.
• All correct.
• Chaplain.

4. Legal Systems and Statute Law

• Statute and law regulation.
• Developing common law.
• Set of rules passed by a legislative body.
• Subordinate legislation.
• Quebec civil system.
• Due process.
• Examination of discovery.
• Most serious criminal offense.
• Associate review board.
• No new witnesses called.
• Case and statute law.
• Judicial, executive, and legislative branches.

5. Professional Regulation and Standards

• Setting standards of entry into the profession.
• Provincial regulatory body.
• Two-tier system: regulatory branch under a higher-level body.
• Regulation of nursing education.
• Professional misconduct.
• Complaint, investigation, interim investigation, and discipline committee.
• Delegation.
• Avoid threats to the safety of vulnerable patients.
• LPNs (Licensed Practical Nurses) care for less complex populations.
• Makes repeat medication errors.

6. Consent, Liability, and Patient Autonomy

• All correct.
• Battery.
• Autonomy.
• All correct.
• The nurse is liable because she did not obtain consent.
• Liable for battery if the patient withdraws consent.
• Spouse.
• A child must be capable of understanding treatment.
• No, the nurse is protected against liability.
• Statute law.

7. Standards of Care and Negligence

• Implement improvements for nurses who do not meet standards.
• A nurse assaults a patient.
• Duty of care owed, breached, and damage is a direct result.
• Criminal negligence.
• Interpret healthcare records.
• The standard of care is used as an objective measure.
• Investigate unexplained or suspicious deaths.
• Express concerns and page the on-call Doctor/Nurse Practitioner (NP).

11. Workplace Safety, Bullying, and Labor Relations

• A nurse refuses to assist with an abortion.
• Acceptable when appropriate safety precautions are not in place.
• All of the above.
• Identify and recommend solutions for potential workplace hazards.
• All of the above.
• Bullying.
• Provide mentoring programs.
• Immediate disciplinary action when a nurse is accused of bullying behavior.
• Revisit the request with the manager and negotiate an arrangement.
• Collective bargaining and management grievances.

12. Cultural Competence and Resource Management

• All of the above.
• Send the employee home immediately.
• Aging population growing demand on health resources.
• International job fair.
• Identify the patient's unique culture during assessment.
• There may not be a shared understanding of what is meaningful to patients and families.
• Recognizing that other disciplines have contributions.
• Translation by family during decisions about cancer care.
• All of the above.
• Let her sleep, deal with it in the morning.