Exam 6: Ethics and Professional Nursing

Professions have many distinguishing attributes that have been proposed over the years, including (select all that apply):

Because society allows professionals a monopoly over the services they provide, ethics demands that those services must be provided with expertise.

Flexner listed some of the following traits utilized to identify professions:

____ refers to a person who has an obligation to accept responsibility and to account for actions.

A complex, organized occupation preceded by a long training program is a(n):

The roles of the state boards of nursing can include:

The minimum expectations for safe nursing care can be defined as:

Who authored the first ethics textbook, Nursing Ethics for Hospital and Private Use?

Who was the first nursing theorist to write about caring?

Which of the following is a function of nurse practice acts? Select all that apply.

"Self-governing" is another word or definition for:

____ relates to the characteristic of having a high level of specialized skill and knowledge.

Standards of nursing practice are developed within the profession to describe practice and establish the minimum level of safe practice. The purpose of standards of nursing practice can include:

The foremost legal statute regulating nursing is:

An explicit declaration of primary goals and values of the profession that indicates the "profession's acceptance of the responsibility and trust with which it has been invested by society" is: