NURS 142 Midterm Latest Update 2025-2026 Exam 140 Questions with 100% Verified Correct Answers Guaranteed A+
1.5 Relationships with colleagues and others - CORRECT ANSWER: The nurse creates an ethical environment, a culture of civility and kindness, treating colleagues, coworkers, employees, students, and others with dignity and respect.
Cultivate civility, collaboration, and collegiality to ensure:
Safe, quality patient care and outcomes Compassionate, transparent, effective health services A hospitable work environment
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) - CORRECT ANSWER: completed an
accelerated graduate-level education program preparing them for the 4 recognized APRN roles.
Advocacy - CORRECT ANSWER: the act or process of pleading for, supporting,
recommending a cause or course of action. It occurs at the individual, interpersonal, organization and community, and policy levels.
American Nurses Credentialing Center developed the Pathway to Excellence Program:
- CORRECT ANSWER: 1) Nurses control the practice of nursing
2) The work environment is safe and healthy 3) Systems are in place to address patient care and practice concerns 4) Orientation prepares nurses for the work environment 5) The CNO is qualified and participates in all levels of organization 6) Professional development is provided and used 7) Equitable compensation is provided 8) Nurses are recognized for achievements 1 / 3
9) A balanced lifestyle is encouraged 10) Collaborative relationships are valued and supported 11) Nurse managers are competent and accountable 12) A quality program and evidence-based practice is used
An ethical code is an identifying feature of a profession to - CORRECT ANSWER:
Facilitate professional self-regulation and accountability Describe obligations of client-professional and colleague-to-colleague relationships Serve as a guide for analysis, decision and action
ANA's Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements ("the Code") - CORRECT ANSWER: •Conveys shared ethical values, obligations, duties and ideals of nurses individually and collectively •Provides an implied contract with the public •Informs society of the moral values and ideals by which it functions •Informs new professionals of the expected moral behaviors •Guides the profession in self-regulation •Provides a framework for ethical decision-making Is unapologetic, aspirational and nonnegotiable
Applied ethics - CORRECT ANSWER: wrestles with questions or right, wrong, good,
and evil in a specific realm of human action, such as nursing, business, or law.
Aristotle held that there are five essential social virtues - CORRECT ANSWER: courage, compassion, self-love, friendship, and forgiveness
Art of Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER: based on caring and respect for human dignity. It embraces spirituality, healing, empathy, manual respect, and compassion.
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ASKED - CORRECT ANSWER: Awareness
Skill Knowledge Encounters Desire
Caring is - CORRECT ANSWER: Grounded in ethics, beginning with respect for the
autonomy of the care recipient Grounded, as a science, in nursing, but is not limited to nursing An attribute that may be taught, modeled, learned, and mastered Capable of being measured and analyzed scientifically The subject of study within caring science institutes/academics worldwide Central to relationships that lead to effective healing, cure, and/or actualization of human potential.
Contextual features (principles of justice and fairness) - CORRECT ANSWER: identify the familial, social, institutional, financial, and legal settings within which the particular case takes place, insofar as they influence medical decisions (risks of professional or institutional conflicts of interest, vested interests, financial factors, institutional/social scarcity of resources, potential legal issues, public safety issues)
Culturally congruent practice - CORRECT ANSWER: he application of evidence-based nursing that is in agreement with the preferred cultural values, beliefs, worldview, and practices of the healthcare consumer and other stakeholders.
Doctrine of Double Effect - CORRECT ANSWER: Nurse may administer medications
with the intent of reducing symptoms of dying, even though the secondary impact may decrease respirations and perhaps hasten death The nurse's actions do not cause the death, the terminal illness causes the death
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