What can generally be excluded from the common causes for noncompliance among culturally diverse clients?
a. Use of treatments that are similar to tradi-tional treatments
b. Lack of external symptoms of disease
c. Inconvenient or painful treatments
d. Lack of external support from family members or close friends
Upon what ethical principle do supporters of assisted suicide base their support for the practice?
a. Beneficence includes acts that will help to permanently end a client's suffering.
b. The health-care provider is permitted to use paternalism when the client is unsure about the best course of treatment.
c. Only by allowing the client to decide among all possible options will the prin-ciple of informed consent be fulfilled.
d. The right to self-determination includes the decision to end one's life.
Select the key element(s) that the Pew Commission Final Report identified as key to constructive interpersonal encounters. Select all that apply.
a. Relationship centered
b. Education based
c. Culturally sensitive
d. Caring
e. Evaluated
f. Collaborative
Identify the outcome that best demonstrates a critical care nurse's successful application of the ethical principle of nonmaleficence to the care of a client who has experienced a cerebrovascular accident (CVA).
a. The client is aware of his or her diagnosis despite attempts of the family to withhold that information.
b. The client is beginning to be able to use simple words to express his or her needs.
c. The family has been taught the necessary skills to care for the client at home with the supervision of a home health-care nurse.
d. There is no evidence of skin breakdown on bony pressure points, and the client's shoulder and hip on the affected side re-main intact.
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