Author Question: A nurse has used the steps of the ethical decision-making process when making a decision. Which of ... (Read 560 times)

kwoodring · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

A nurse has used the steps of the ethical decision-making process when making a decision. Which of the following is most similar to this process?

a. Healthy People 2010
b. Deontology
c. The nursing process
d. Advocacy

Question 2

The growing multiculturalism of American society can contribute to ethnicity conflicts when:

a. providing care to different cultural groups.
b. individual values align with the cultural norms.
c. ethnic groups overburden the health care system.
d. the greater community's values are jeop-ardized by specific ethnic values.

vboyd24 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: C
The steps of the ethical decision-making framework are to first identify the ethical issues and di-lemmas, then place them within a meaningful context, obtain all relevant facts, reformulate ethi-cal issues and dilemmas if needed, consider appropriate approaches to actions or options, make decisions and take action, and evaluate decisions and action. The nursing process involves the same basic steps: assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Healthy Peo-ple 2010, deontology, and advocacy do not involve these multiple steps described by the ethical decision-making framework and the nursing process.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
Callahan offered perspectives on judging diversity and suggests a thoughtful tolerance and some degree of moral persuasion (not coercion) for ethnic groups to alter values so that they are more in keeping with what is normative in American culture. Providing care to different cultural groups should not produce an ethnicity conflict. Individual alignment with cultural norms would make it less likely that an ethnicity conflict would occur. Ethnic groups using the health care sys-tem will not cause it to be overburdened or result in an ethnicity conflict.