Exam 7: Ethical Decision Making

The physician and nurse participate with a patient in making a particularly difficult moral decision. If the decision-making process is properly implemented, which of the following may occur?

Moral dilemmas occur when:

Moral integrity is defined as:

When a person is aware of a moral problem, acknowledges moral responsibility, and makes a moral judgment about the correct action, yet is constrained from the self-determined morally correct action, the person is experiencing:

A problem consists of:

Which of the following is an example of a moral dilemma?

Determining key participants is appropriate during which step of the moral decision-making process?

The first step in the ethical decision-making process is:

George, an ICU nurse, worked with the team as they followed the physician's order to discontinue life support on a patient diagnosed with persistent vegetative state. George believes that life is sacred and that he has a duty to do whatever it takes to preserve life. Nevertheless, he remained silent as the decision was made, and he assisted his coworkers when they unplugged the respirator. George is likely to experience which of the following?

The nurse manager asks Martha, a staff nurse, if she will work an additional 4 hours at the end of her shift. Martha's patient is unstable, and there is insufficient staff on the next shift to care for her adequately. If she works overtime, Martha will break a promise she made to take her children to the circus. This situation is an example of:

Which term is described as a personal consciousness of the moral importance that guides personal action in a particular situation?

Physicians sometimes make unilateral decisions in morally important situations because:

A registered nurse witnesses another nurse violating a patient's autonomy. Even though she did not participate in the action, the nurse who witnessed the act experiences powerlessness, frustration, and anger. This reaction describes which of the following?

Several types of moral problems exist and are discussed in chapter 7. Which of the following are examples of a moral problem? Select all that apply.

____________ occurs when we sense that there is a moral problem but are not sure of the morally correct action.