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Legal & Ethical Issues MCQs for Nursing Exams

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Legal & Ethical Issues questions for NORCET, RRB, ESIC, CHO and state nursing officer exams, split into 8 topics. Open a topic to read sample questions with answers, or start free practice. Every question comes with a simple-English explanation.

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Legal & Ethical Issues topics

General 245Informed Consent 43Confidentiality 36Negligence 24Legal And Ethical Issues In Nursing 7Advance Directive 6End-Of-Life Issues 6Legal Charges 6

Sample Legal & Ethical Issues questions

Q1. Holistic nursing care involves addressing patients' physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs. Which nursing intervention assists patients and their families in meeting their spiritual needs?

  1. Resolving conflicts between treatment and beliefs
  2. Notifying the doctor of the family's presence
  3. Resolving conflicts between family members
  4. Ensuring the confidentiality of the patient
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Answer: A. Resolving conflicts between treatment and beliefs

Nursing interventions to assist patients and their families to meet their spiritual needs include offering support, facilitating the patient's practice of religion, praying with a patient and family, contacting a spiritual counselor, and resolving conflicts between treatment and spiritual beliefs.

Q2. Self-governance, the ability to choose or carry out a decision without undue pressure or coercion from anyone:

  1. Autonomy
  2. Veracity
  3. Fidelity
  4. Beneficence
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Answer: A. Autonomy

Autonomy is self-determination, the freedom to make and carry out one's own decisions without coercion.

Q3. The nurse teaches a patient about an upcoming endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) procedure. The nurse determines that the patient has a need for further teaching if the patient makes which statement?

  1. "It is important to lie still during the procedure."
  2. "Medication will be given orally for sedation."
  3. "An anesthetic throat spray will be used."
  4. "A signed informed consent is necessary."
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Answer: B. "Medication will be given orally for sedation."

Intravenous sedation (not oral) is given to relax the patient, and an anesthetic throat spray is used to help keep the patient from gagging as the endoscope is passed. The patient has to sign an informed consent form. The patient also needs to lie still for ERCP, which takes about an hour to perform. Priority Nursing Tip: After ERCP, assess the patient for the return of the gag reflex before offering the patient anything to drink or eat.

Q4. The nurse manager introduces to the staff the new organizational policy and procedural changes for administering blood products. According to Lewin's model for implementing change, which steps of the change process is the nurse manager addressing?

  1. Unfreeze
  2. Refreeze
  3. Move
  4. Evaluate
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Answer: A. Unfreeze

The first step for implementing change, or unfreezing, is to assist others to understand the need for change and the steps necessary to implement the change. Communication and information sharing are essential in this step. Actual implementation of the change and accepting the change as the standard of care are activities that occur with moving and refreezing. Evaluating is necessary for overall quality management, but is not a part of the change process as described by Lewin's change theory.

Q5. Which intervention should the nurse implement to provide culturally sensitive health care to the European-American Caucasian elderly patient who is terminal?

  1. Encourage the patient's autonomy and answer questions truthfully
  2. Do not talk about death and dying in front of the patient
  3. Discuss health-care issues with the oldest male child
  4. Determine if the patient will be cremated or have an earth burial
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Answer: A. Encourage the patient's autonomy and answer questions truthfully

A. Many Middle Eastern cultures practice this, but the Caucasian culture does not. B. Caucasians as a culture do not necessarily have a preference, but this does not affect culturally sensitive health care. C. Frequently Caucasians do not like to talk about death and dying, but this is an individual preference of the patient and the nurse should allow the discussion. D. The western Caucasian society values autonomy and truth telling in individual decision making.

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Is Legal & Ethical Issues asked in NORCET and other nursing officer exams?

Nursing exams test the core nursing subjects, so this subject is useful for NORCET, RRB, ESIC, CHO and state exams. Check your exam's official syllabus for exact weightage.

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