NMC ETHICS AND WARD MANAGEMENT PAST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS-1
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NMC ETHICS AND WARD MANAGEMENT PAST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS-1
1. After administering medication to client, when is the appropriate time the nurse record it.
a. Before the end of shift
b. Before the next dose of medication is due
c. Immediately
d. Within an hour
2. Which of the following reasons is most important, as well as the most widely accepted for the nursing process?
a. Communicate with other members of the team
b. Help clients meet their actual and potential health problems
c. Increase the unique body of knowledge known as nursing
d. Standardize the care of clients with the same diagnosis
3. Which of the following is most likely to occur as nurses advance in their education?
a. Become less interested in bedside nursing
b. Have increased enjoyment when doing paper work
c. Learn to develop personal theory of nursing
d. Lose their ability to think critically in clinical areas
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- Alberta complained to the nurse that she had been given an injection without her consent. Which offence would the nurse be charged with?
a. Criminal assault
b. Maleficence
c. Technical assault
d. Tort
5. The lowest level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs iS …………………
a. Love and belonging needs
b. Physiologic needs
c. Safety and security needs
d. Self-esteem needs
6. The fundamental responsibility of the nurse according to the international council of Nurses code for Ethics are the following except..
a. Prevention of illness
b. Promotion of illness
c. Renewal of health
d. Restoration of health
7. Informed consent is a method that promotes ……………
a. Autonomy
b. Beneficence
c. Justice
d. Non maleficence
8. The most important nursing intervention to correct skin dryness is:
a. Avoid bathing the patient until the condition is remedied, and notify the physician
b. Consult the dietitian about increasing the patient’s fat intake, and take necessary measures to prevent infection
c. Ask the physician to refer the patient to a dermatologist, and suggest that the patient wear home-laundered sleepwear
d. Encourage the patient to increase his fluid intake, use non-irritating soap when bathing the patient, and apply lotion to the involved areas
9. When bathing a patient’s extremities, the nurse should use long, firm strokes from the distal to the proximal areas. This technique:
a. Avoids undue strain on the nurse
b. Causes vasoconstriction and increases circulation
c. Increases venous blood return
d. Provides an opportunity for skin assessment
10. Vivid dreaming occurs in which stage of sleep?
a. Stage I non-REM
b. Rapid eye movement (REM) stage
c. Stage II non-REM
d. Delta stage
11. The natural sedative in meat and milk products (especially warm milk) that can help induce sleepis:
a. Tryptophan
b. Flurazepam
c. Temazepam
d. Methotrimeprazine
12. Nursing interventions that can help the patient to relax and sleep restfully include all of the following except:
a. Provide quiet music and interesting reading material
b. Turn on the television in the patient’s room
c. Have the patient take a 30- to 60-minute nap in the afternoon
d. Massage the patient’s back with long strokes
13. Restraints can be used for all of the following purposes except to:
a. Prevent a patient from falling out of bed or a chair
b. Prevent a confused patient from removing tubes, such as feeding tubes, I.V. lines, and urinary catheters
d. Prevent a patient from becoming confused or disoriented
c. Discourage a patient from attempting to ambulate alone when he requires assistance for his safety
14. Which of the following is the nurse’s legal responsibility when applying restraints?
a. Document the patient’s behavior
b. Obtain a written order from the physician except in an emergency, when the patient must be protected from injury to himself or others
c. Document the type of restraint used
d. All of the above
15. Kubler-Ross’s five successive stages of death and dying are:
a. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression acceptanc
b. Anger, bargaining, denial, depression, acceptance
c. Bargaining, denial, anger, depression, acceptanc
d. Denial, anger, depression, bargaining, acceptance
16. A terminally ill patient usually experiences all of the following feelings during the anger stage except:
a. Resentment
b. Rage
c. Numbness
b. Envy
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17. Nurses and other health care provides often have difficulty helping a terminally ill patient through the necessary stages leading to acceptance of death. Which of the following strategies is most helpful to the nurse in achieving this goal?
a. Reviewing varying cultural beliefs and practices related to death
b. Taking psychology courses related to gerontology
c. Reading books and other literature on the subject of thanatology
d. Reflecting on the significance of death
18. The duty to respect privileged information is called ………….
a. Confidentiality
b. Fidelity
c. Justice
d. Veracity
19. Nursing ethics provides the standard for professional behavior and is the study of principles of right and wrong for nurse. This set of standard’s states the duties and obligations of nurses. …………..
i. Client
ii. Community
iii. Other health professionals
a. i and ii
b. i and iii only
c. ii and iii only
d. i, ii and iii
20. The execution of duties associated with the nurse’s particular role is called……….
a. Accountability
b. Non maleficence
c. Responsibility
d. veracity
21. Professional accountability serves for the following purpose except to…………
a. Evaluate new professional practices and reassess existing ones
b. Maintain standards for health
c. Promote basis for the ethical decision
d. Respect the decision of the client
22. The client on renal dialysis informs the nurse that he wants to stop the series of dialysis. The nurse should appropriately do which action in response to client’s decision?
a. Inform the client that the doctor must decide what to do
b. Leave the client and attend to other patient’s
c. Respect the client’s decision and provide comfort measures
d. Tell the client that he must finish the series of dialysis
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23. Nurse Mensah failed to fix back the bed side rails after giving bed bath to Kojo, and epileptic patient. The patient fell and sustained a fracture. Which of the following offences will the nurse be charged with
a. Assault
b. Battery
c. Malpractice
d. misdemeanor
24. Hajia Mohammed is 30 weeks pregnant and believes that someone wants to take her body from her womb. Which of the following individuals would you involve when counseling her?
i. Hospital chaplain
ii. Husband of client
iii. Imam
iv. Ward in-charge
a. i and iv
b. i and iv
c. i, ii and iii
d. ii, iii and iv
25. A way of communicating our feelings, thoughts and beliefs in an open honest manner without violating the rights of others is known as …..
a. Aggressive assertive behavior
b. Assertive behavior
c. Non-verbal communication
d. Verbal communication
26. Nurse Ansah forgets to serve prescribed medicine to patient who had returned from surgery 24 hours ago. This act of the nurse is considered as:
a. Felony
b. Malpractice
c. Misdemeanor
d. Negligence
27. Which of the following should a nurse possess, when providing holistic care?
i. Data of client
ii. Knowledge in the area of practice
iii. Positive attitude
iv. Requisite skills
a. i, ii and iv
b. ii, iii and iv
c. i, iii and iv
d. i, ii and iv
28. Which of the following are the rights of a patient/client?
i. Consent or decline to a treatment
ii. Comply with prescribed treatment
iii. Personal safety and security
iv. Seek second medical opinion
a. i, ii and iv
b. i, ii and iii
c. i, iii and iv
d. ii, iii and iv
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29. You are on night duty and a patient who has been on the ward for 3 days suddenly becomes aggressive, breaks a louver blade and stabs himself with it. The patient bleeds to death. What kind of report would you write on this patient?
a. Daily
b. Incident
c. Twenty-four hour
d. Nurses’
30. A palliative nurse fails to inform a patient the risk involved in radiotherapy. Bases on the information given, the patient gives her written consent to the treatment and thereafter sustained painful burns and scarring of her skin. The patient sues the nurse for..
a. Damages
b. Lack of informed consent
c. Malpractice
d. All the above
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