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WorksheetsEthical Considerations in Nursing
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
Your coworker and friend who is a nurse reports to their shift exhibiting odd behavior and smells of alcohol. What do you do?
Notify a supervisor immediately and ensure the colleague is removed from patient care according to policy.
Ignore the situation to protect the friendship and avoid conflict.
Confront the colleague privately but allow them to continue working.
Document nothing and wait to see if performance worsens.
According to the Safety Intelligence description, which events must be reported and within what timeframe?
All events involving patients, visitors, or environmental issues, including near misses to sentinel events, must be reported as soon as possible or within 24 hours
Only events that cause patient injury must be reported within 72 hours
Only environmental incidents must be reported immediately; patient events are optional
Only sentinel events must be reported within 24 hours; near misses are not reported
In the Safety Intelligence text, how is a near miss defined?
An event that does not reach the patient or cause harm
An event that causes minor injury to a patient
An event reported only by managers
An environmental incident that causes property damage
Self-Regulation/Breathing instructions state a minimum duration to be effective in controlling anxiety/fear arousal. What is that minimum?
1 minute
30 seconds
3 minutes
10 minutes
With whom can you practice analyzing situations using ethical frameworks to develop nursing and medical ethics?
On your own, with a teacher, or with a fellow nurse who can share perspectives and ideas
Only with hospital administrators during policy reviews
Only during mandatory compliance training modules
Only in anonymous online forums without professional guidance
What is cited as the effect of a lack of moral compass?
Acting per your own convenience without considering what’s better for others or society
Experiencing increased empathy for others
Making consistently better decisions for the community
Developing stronger ties with society
According to Wilson, which of the following can influence your moral compass? Select all that apply.
Education
Family values
Media
Social media
A simpler way to phrase consequentialism is ?
The ends justify the means.
Duty for duty’s sake.
Act only according to maxims you can will as universal law.
Character determines morality.
Example: A patient with a terminal illness is unlikely to survive surgery. Just before anesthesia she asks, "Doctor, will I be okay?" According to the consequentialist view described, which response is morally acceptable?
Tell her the full truth about her prognosis to uphold honesty.
Refuse to answer because predicting outcomes is uncertain.
Offer a reassuring lie to reduce distress before surgery.
Delay the procedure until she has more information.
which pillar corresponds to giving the patient the freedom to choose freely where they are able?
Beneficence
Non-maleficence
Autonomy
Justice
which pillar is described as ensuring fairness?
Beneficence
Justice
Autonomy
Non-maleficence
Which set best represents the Four Principles of Ethics?
Beneficence, Non-maleficence, Autonomy, Justice
Honesty, Compassion, Prudence, Courage
Confidentiality, Informed consent, Fidelity, Veracity
Utility, Duty, Virtue, Care
How is capacity defined in medicine?
The ability to give consent based on understanding and using information to make a decision
The legal status of a hospital to conduct procedures
The number of beds available in a ward
The presence of a surrogate decision-maker
Which abilities are required for a person to have capacity? Select all that apply
Understand the information they are given
Remember the information
Use the information to make a decision (weighing benefits and risks)
Communicate their decision
If a patient later loses capacity, how is a decision they made when able to consent treated.
It is automatically invalidated
It is respected and continues to stand
It must be re-signed by a guardian
It is replaced by the clinician’s preference
Does making a decision others find irrational mean a person lacks capacity, and under what condition.
Yes, irrational choices prove incapacity
No, not if they fully understand their situation and the consequences
Yes, if the choice conflicts with medical advice
No, as long as family members agree
in which scenario (s) may treatment proceed without a patient’s consent.
Emergency life-saving treatment when the patient is incapacitated
Additional emergency procedures during an operation
Routine outpatient follow-up visit
If untreated illness poses a wider risk to public health
What is the definition of moral dilemma?
a situation in which an easy choice has to be made between two courses of action
a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two courses of action, either of which entails going beyond the bounds of a moral principle
a person's standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to do
a difficult situation or problem.
