Your client is concerned about the side effects of an experimental drug the client is taking. You tell your client that you will contact the doctor about this concern. If you follow through on your commitment, you are supporting which ethical principle?
1. autonomy
2. beneficence
3. fidelity
4. nonmaleficence
ANS: 3
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ANS:
A public health nurse wishes to improve his ability to integrate genetics and genomics into his practice. To strengthen his foundation knowledge he should choose which college course?
1. Cellular biology 2. Organic chemistry 3. Introduction to sociology 4. Trigonometry
The family of a client who has been burned asks when the client will no longer be at greater risk for infection. What is the nurse's best response?
a. "As soon as the antibiotics have been fi-nished." b. "As soon as albumin levels returns to normal." c. "When fluid remobilization has started." d. "When the burn wounds are closed."
If a client is placed in seclusion and held there for 24 hours without a written order or examination by a physician, the client would have the right to bring suit against the hospital for
A. battery. B. defamation of character. C. false imprisonment. D. assault.