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A material safety data sheet (MSDS) is provided by the manufacturer at purchase of hazardous materials. Which items are included in those data sheets? Select all that apply.
 
  a. Ingredients
  b. Efficacy of product
  c. First aid measures
  d. Exposure controls
  e. Cost comparison of product

Question 2

A nurse looking for a good interfacing approach with an Internet-positive patient would choose which of the following approaches?
 
  a. Read Internet information promptly c. React in a positive manner
  b. Refuse Internet material d. React in a derogatory manner

Question 3

You are passing medications on a mental health unit. One of the patients refuses to take her morning medications stating, That medicine makes me feel weird..
 
  You see the patient's breakfast tray and question the charge nurse on whether it would be wrong for you to crush the medication and mix it into the patient's applesauce without the patient's knowledge. Which ethical principle would you be violating? a. Autonomy c. Fidelity
  b. Beneficence d. Veracity

Question 4

In a health care setting, the issue of informed consent for patients participating in a study post-surgery is considered to be a matter of __________.
 
  a. organizational ethics
  b. clinical ethics
  c. bioethics
  d. research ethics

Question 5

Nurses must understand that during an emergency, such as a tornado, sometimes the presiding decision maker may have to make decisions based on the principle of the most good for the most people.
 
  What would be an appropriate action based on that principle? (Select all that all apply. a. Moving only the ambulatory patients to safety
  b. Potentially sacrificing staff to remain with the ventilated patients
  c. Allowing staff members with families to leave
  d. Asking visitors to move into the stairways
  e. Refusing to allow any staff members to leave

Question 6

A patient approaches you as you are about to leave to attend a mandatory. The patient asks if you would be able to answer some questions about his medication.
 
  You politely tell the patient that you have to attend a mandatory meeting and promise to talk with him when you return in an hour. Once you return from the meeting, you complete your assigned nursing care, chart on the patients, and leave for home. While watching your favorite TV program that evening, you remember that you never returned to discuss the medications with the patient who had approached you that morning. Which ethical principle have you violated? a. Autonomy c. Veracity
  b. Fidelity d. Justice
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Answer to #1

A, C, D

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Correct These are included in the data sheet information provided by the manu-facturer of the product.
These are included in the data sheet information provided by the manu-facturer of the product.
These are included in the data sheet information provided by the manu-facturer of the product.
Incorrect These are not included in the data sheet information provided by the manufacturer of the product.
These are not included in the data sheet information provided by the manufacturer of the product.

Answer to #2

C
Approach Internet-positive patients in the following manner: react positively, inform patients that time
constraints will not permit you to read the information on the spot, never refuse Internet material, and
never be derogatory.

Answer to #3

A
Patients have the right to refuse to take their medications. By mixing the medication with the patient's
applesauce, you would be violating the patient's right to autonomy. Autonomy involves respect for an
individual's right to self-determination and respect for individual liberty.

Answer to #4

d

a. Incorrect: Organizational ethics generally refers to administrative and management ethical issues.
b. Incorrect: Clinical ethics focuses on issues that arise for patients and health care providers in the provision of health care.
c. Incorrect: Bioethics refers to the ethics of biological and medical research and practice.
d. Correct: Research ethics refers to the policies on ethical review and monitoring of health care studies that are conducted within a health care organization. Some system of review of research proposals is established by organizations to ensure that such issues as consent, considerations of benefits and burdens, and scientific merit are addressed before approval to proceed with research is provided by an organization.

Answer to #5

A, D

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Correct Removing the most mobile patients/family members to an area of safety will secure the majority.
Removing the most mobile patients/family members to an area of safety will secure the majority.
Incorrect They are sacrificing a majority for the good of a few.
They are sacrificing a majority for the good of a few.
They are sacrificing a majority for the good of a few.

Answer to #6

B
Fidelity is the principle of promise keeping, or the duty to keep one's promise or word. While you
were not lying to the patient and had all intentions of talking with him, you failed to keep your
promise.
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6 years ago
I just wanted to write to say thanks a bunch for the answer!
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