Essay:

How important is the Professional accountability in relation to nursing practice?

(write your answer for at least 75-100 words)

Instruction: You are required to circle the correct answer and explain your answer with corresponding
number of words for better understanding

1. 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? (Explain your answer for at
least 50-75 words)

A Inform the client that the doctor must decide what to do.

B Tell the client that he must finish his series of renal dialysis.

C Respect the client’s decision and provide comfort measures.

D Leave the client and attend other patients.

2. The execution of duties associated with nurse’s particular role is called: (Explain your answer for at
least 25 words)

A Accountability

B Responsibility

C Nonmaleficence

D Veracity

3. The personal conviction that something is absolutely right or wrong in all situations is called: (Explain
your answer for at least 25 words)

A values

B morals

C ethics

D standards of practice

4. The principles or standards that influence behavior and decision making which are based on
experience, religion, education and culture is called: (Explain your answer for at least 25 words)

A values

B morals

C ethics
D standards of practice

5. The nurse in a unit is caring for several clients. To distribute nursing care the nurse utilized the principle
of triage due to the limited availability of resources. The nurse is promoting which ethical principle?
(Explain your answer for at least 25 words)

A Fidelity

B Justice

C Veracity

D Confidentiality

6. In simple terms, planning involves deciding in advance the following, except? (Explain your answer for
at least 25 words)

a) what and how to do it

b) when to do it

c) where to report

d) who is to do it

7. The one that promotes the philosophical and theological study of morality, moral judgments and
moral problems is called: (Explain your answer for at least 25 words)

A values

B morals

C ethics

D standards of practice

8. Professional accountability serves for the following purpose except for: (Explain your answer for at
least 25 words)

A To provide basis for ethical decision

B To respect the decision of the client.

C To maintain standards of health

D To evaluate new professional practices and reassess existing ones

8. 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? (Explain your answer for at
least 25 words)

A Inform the client that the doctor must decide what to do.

B Tell the client that he must finish his series of renal dialysis.
C Respect the client’s decision and provide comfort measures.

D Leave the client and attend other patients.

9. The execution of duties associated with nurse’s particular role is called: (Explain your answer for at
least 25 words)

A Accountability

B Responsibility

C Nonmaleficence

D Veracity

10. The personal conviction that something is absolutely right or wrong in all situations is called: (Explain
your answer for at least 25 words)

A values

B morals

C ethics

D standards of practice

11. The principles or standards that influence behavior and decision making which are based on
experience, religion, education and culture is called: (Explain your answer for at least 25-50 words)

A values

B morals

C ethics

D standards of practice

12. The nurse’s obligations to the client least like include: (Explain your answer for at least 25-50 words)

A Considers the dignity of clients

B Retains a commitment of welfare to the client

C Work toward securing and maintaining conditions of employment that satisfy the goals of
nursing.

D Hold confidential all information about a client learned in a health care setting.

13. The fundamental responsibility of a nurse according to the International Council of Nurse Code for
Nurses are the following apart from: (Explain your answer for at least 25 words)

A Prevention of illness

B Promotion of health
C Restoration of health

D Aggravation of suffering

12. When does a moral issue become an ethical issue? (Explain your answer for at least 25 words)

A When the choices are clearly denoting which is right and wrong.

B When values of a person develops and changes over time.

C When there is no acceptable reason for the wrong choice once it is done.

D When the choice is no longer clear between right and wrong.

14. The nurse in a unit is caring for several clients. To distribute nursing care the nurse utilized the
principle of triage due to the limited availability of resources. The nurse is promoting which ethical
principle? (Explain your answer for at least 25 words)

A Fidelity

B Justice

C Veracity

D Confidentiality

15. Informed consent is a method that promotes: (Explain your answer for at least 25 words)

A Autonomy

B Nonmaleficence

C Beneficence

D Justice

16. Nurse’s code of ethics is a set of ethical principles generally accepted by members of the profession.
The standard or principles that a nurse must observe in the practice should promote which duty? (Explain
your answer for at least 25 words)

A Uses judgment in relation to individual competence when accepting and delegating

responsibilities.

B Plays a major role in determining and implementation of desirable standards of nursing practice.

C Active in developing a core of professional knowledge.

D Acts through professional organization and participates in establishing and maintaining equitable
social and economic working conditions in nursing.
17. Clients in health care have both ethical and legal rights. When a patient wants to know the prognosis
of his illness, the best action to take is: (Explain your answer for at least 25 words)

a) refer to your senior nurse

b) advise a patient to ask his doctor

c) give a direct answer

d) discuss it with family

18. Your patient resented you telling her to take home her expensive belongings for housekeeping:

What is the best action to take? (Explain your answer for at least 25 words)

a) suggest that these be keep in her locked table drawer

b) bring the matter to the attention of the head nurse

c) keep in the unit cabinet under lock and key

d) discuss with her the hospital policy

19. The physician has an order to limit visitors for your patient. One morning a relative insisted to visit
him. Your best response is to: (Explain your answer for at least 25 words)

a) call the security guard

b) show hi the “No Visitors” sign

c) explain the need of the patient to rest

d) allow a brief visit

20. It is a policy in every hospital to follow what is the doctors ordered. One morning, a patient with
dyspenea (difficulty of breathing) was for admission. The best action is to? (Explain your answer for at
least 25 words)

a) attend to patient immediately

b) inform the patient that there is a patient for admission

c) make the patient wait for a while

d) ask the student nurse to admit the patient