Nursing Ethics Knowledge Quiz

Ethical principles for professional nursing practice in a clinical setting are guided by the principles of conduct that are written as the:

The distribution of nurses to areas of “most need” in the time of a nursing shortage is an example of:

When a client is confused, left alone with the side rails down, and the bed in a high position, the client falls and breaks a hip. What law has been broken?

When signing a form as a witness, your signature shows that the client:

A document that lists the medical treatment a person chooses to refuse if unable to make decisions is the:

The code of ethics for nurses is composed and published by:

Even though the nurse may obtain the clients signature on a form, obtaining informed consent is the responsibility of the:

The nurse is obligated to follow a physician’s order unless:

It is also called moral philosophy, the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong. The term is also applied to any system or theory of moral values or principles

It is a theory that suggests actions are good or bad according to a clear set of rules. Its name comes from the Greek word deon, meaning duty. Actions that obey these rules are ethical, while actions that do not, are not. This ethical theory is most closely associated with German philosopher, Immanuel Kant.

It is the world's oldest religion, according to many scholars, with roots and customs dating back more than 4,000 years. Today, with about 900 million followers, it is the third-largest religion behind Christianity and Islam.

One of the world's most widely printed and quoted statements of business ethics used by Rotarians world-wide as a moral code for personal and business relationships. The test can be applied to almost any aspect of life.

It is the practice or advocacy of improving the human species by selectively mating people with specific desirable hereditary traits. It aims to reduce human suffering by “breeding out” disease, disabilities and so-called undesirable characteristics from the human population.

It is the process by which human conditions and problems come to be defined and treated as medical conditions, and thus become the subject of medical study, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment.

It is the practice of intentionally ending life to relieve pain and suffering.

It governs the standards of conduct for scientific researchers. It is important to adhere to ethical principles in order to protect the dignity, rights and welfare of research participants.

It was a series of medical experiments on large numbers of prisoners, including children, by Nazi Germany in its concentration camps in the early to mid 1940s, during World War II and the Holocaust. The experiments were conducted without anesthesia and resulted in death, trauma, disfigurement, or permanent disability, and as such are considered examples of medical torture.

The trial that was most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany, who planned, carried out, or otherwise participated in the Holocaust and other war crimes. The trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany, and their decisions marked a turning point between classical and contemporary international law.

It is a set of research ethics principles for human experimentation created by the USA v Brandt court as one result of the Nuremberg trials at the end of the Second World War.

An American medical research project that earned notoriety for its unethical experimentation on African American patients in the rural South. Participants’ informed consent was not collected. The subjects were not told that they had syphilis or that the disease could be transmitted through sexual intercourse. Instead, they were told that they suffered from “bad blood,” a local term used to refer to a range of ills.

It was written by the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, which identifies basic ethical principles and guidelines that address ethical issues arising from the conduct of research with human subjects.

It is a set of ethical principles regarding human experimentation developed for the medical community by the World Medical Association (WMA). It is widely regarded as the cornerstone document on human research ethics.