Staff nurses use individual justice to care for individual clients, but nursing leaders use what type of justice?
a. Formal justice
b. Distributive justice
c. Resourceful justice
d. Merit justice
Question 2For nurses to function in a multicultural environment, they must be aware of global ethics. Which of the following is an example of global ethics?
a. An African-American woman wants a midwife to deliver her baby.
b. The nurse treats the clients on the unit impartially.
c. Nurses and clients work interdependently to plan care.
d. Clients depend on the nurses for all of their needs.
Question 3The nurse manager put up a rotation schedule to ensure that the holidays would be covered. The manager scheduled a newly hired staff nurse for the same time slot as a nurse who had seniority. The nurse manager was demonstrating what ethical principle?
a. Autonomy
b. Fidelity
c. Justice
d. Utility
Question 4A staff nurse ridiculed another staff nurse's draft of the designs for new signs that were to be placed on the unit. The staff nurse who was ridiculing was demonstrating:
a. Objectivity
b. Ability to find problems
c. Negative attitude
d. Tolerance for complexity
Question 5A hospital planned to begin using a new computerized medication administration record. The hospital used an external consultant to act as a change agent and educate the staff. An advantage to using external consultants is that they:
a. Will devote more time to the problem
b. Are less costly
c. Have limited backgrounds
d. Bring new ideas and different perspectives to the situation