Nursing Communication and Ethics Quiz
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What primary factor influences how individuals perceive information?

  • Sensory information (correct)
  • Recent education
  • Personal experiences
  • Cultural background (correct)

Which communication technique poses a challenge in nursing?

  • Interpersonal communication
  • Small-group communication
  • Communicating about specific diagnoses (correct)
  • Public communication

Which type of communication is most commonly used in nursing?

  • Written communication
  • Small-group communication
  • Interpersonal communication (correct)
  • Public communication

What is a characteristic of small-group communication in nursing?

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What does public communication in nursing often involve?

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What motivates one person to communicate with another in a healthcare setting?

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What aspect of communication is described as ongoing, dynamic, and multidimensional?

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Which of the following is NOT a basic element of the communication process?

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Which aspect is NOT a standard of ethics in health care?

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What does the term 'futile' refer to in health care interventions?

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In the context of genetic screening, what ethical dilemma can arise?

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Which of the following does NOT enhance the decision-making process related to ethical dilemmas?

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What is the primary focus of quality-of-life measures in health care?

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What unique perspective do nurses bring to resolving ethical dilemmas?

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Which ethical principle emphasizes the importance of doing no harm?

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What is the first step in resolving an ethical dilemma?

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What is the primary role of the sender in the communication process?

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How can two nurses convey the same information but deliver different messages?

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Which channel is NOT considered a means of conveying messages?

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What does feedback in the communication process indicate?

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Why is the environment important for effective communication?

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What aspect of verbal communication can lead to misunderstandings with patients?

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Which factor can contribute to communication difficulties between two individuals?

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What should communication efforts aim to do regarding the relationship between sender and receiver?

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What does eye contact during a conversation typically signify?

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Which of the following is an appropriate action when entering a patient's room?

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What does SBAR stand for in the context of communication among healthcare providers?

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How should a nurse address a patient who is unconscious?

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What is considered an example of lateral violence in a healthcare setting?

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Which of the following conveys respect for a person's dignity when communicating?

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In which circumstance is it best to avoid entering someone's personal space?

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What is a consequence of discourteous behavior by a nurse?

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What is a primary role of advocacy in nursing according to the code of ethics?

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What should a nursing student do if they find themselves unsure about administering medication?

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How should a nursing student handle a mistakenly recorded patient observation?

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What does confidentiality in nursing practice entail?

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Why is values clarification important in nursing practice?

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What is an ethical dilemma characterized by?

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How does nursing typically differ from other disciplines in terms of patient interaction?

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What foundational principle of the nursing code of ethics emphasizes the importance of making choices on behalf of patients?

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What is an indicator that an ethical dilemma may exist?

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Which step is focused on gathering diverse perspectives on an ethical issue?

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In the context of ethical dilemmas, why is verbalizing the problem important?

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Which aspect is crucial during the negotiation of a plan in an ethical dilemma?

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Why is effective communication essential in patient-centered nursing care?

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What is one major consequence of a breakdown in communication among healthcare team members?

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During ethical dilemma simulations, why do students present their solutions to the class?

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What is a key activity in the step of evaluating a plan over time?

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Flashcards

Professional Nursing Ethics

Acting in accordance with moral principles and professional standards.

Confidentiality in Nursing

A core principle of professional nursing ethics where nurses have a duty to protect the patient's information.

Accountability (Nursing Ethics)

A nursing core principle where nurses take responsibility for their actions and the care they provide.

Advocacy in Nursing

A nursing core principle where nurses advocate for patients' needs, interests, and rights.

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Responsibility (Nursing Ethics)

A nursing core principle where nurses are responsible for their actions and the care they provide.

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Values Clarification

A process that involves examining and understanding one's own values in relation to others.

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Nursing Point of View

The unique perspective nurses hold, often gaining detailed insights into patients lives.

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Ethical Dilemma

Difficult situations where there are conflicting moral principles or values, creating a dilemma for decision-making.

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What is an ethical dilemma?

A situation where there are conflicting moral principles or values, creating a difficult decision-making scenario.

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What is futile care?

Interventions that are unlikely to produce any benefit for a patient. They are often considered pointless or useless.

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What is values clarification?

A process that helps individuals understand their own values, beliefs, and feelings to make informed decisions.

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What is accountability in nursing?

A nursing core principle where nurses are responsible for their actions and the care they provide.

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What is advocacy in nursing?

A nursing core principle where nurses advocate for patients' needs, interests, and rights.

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What is a nurse's point of view?

The unique perspective nurses hold, often gaining detailed insights into patients' lives.

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What is healthcare ethics?

A branch of ethics focusing on moral principles and values in the field of healthcare.

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What is autonomy in healthcare?

A core ethical principle in healthcare, where patients have the right to make autonomous decisions about their own health.

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Ethical Dilemma Information Gathering

The process of gathering information from the patient, family, healthcare team, and community to understand the context of an ethical dilemma.

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Verbalizing the Ethical Dilemma

Expressing an ethical dilemma in a clear, concise, and simple way that helps everyone involved understand the problem.

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Identifying Possible Courses of Action

Coming up with different approaches to solving the ethical dilemma, considering all ethical principles and values.

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Negotiating a Plan

The process of reaching a decision on how to address the ethical dilemma, balancing the needs of the patient, family, team, and community.

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Evaluating the Plan

Regularly evaluating the effectiveness of the chosen plan to address the ethical dilemma, making adjustments as needed.

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Nursing Perspective

The unique perspective a nurse brings to patient care, which involves understanding the patient's experience, needs, and values.

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Referent

The thing or event that starts a conversation or communication, like a pain, a question, or a message.

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Perception

The use of sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell to understand information and form an opinion. It's influenced by our culture and education.

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Interpersonal Communication

Communication between a nurse and one other person, usually face-to-face, like talking with a patient.

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Small-Group Communication

Communication between a small group of people working towards a shared goal, like a nursing team discussing a patient's plan.

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Public Communication

Communication with a larger audience, like a nurse teaching a group about health topics or presenting research.

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Applying Communication Skills

Learning communication skills is easy, but applying them in real nursing situations can be challenging.

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Sensitive Communication

Effective communication involves being sensitive to patient's unique situations and challenges, such as when discussing sensitive topics like cancer or end-of-life care.

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Dynamic Communication

Communication is not just a one-way process, but an ongoing interaction with many parts, like a dynamic dance.

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Communication Channel

How a message is sent, like speaking, writing, or using gestures.

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Sender (Communication)

The person who creates and delivers the message.

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Receiver (Communication)

The person who receives and interprets the message.

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Message (Communication)

The content of the communication, including words, expressions, and behaviors.

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Feedback (Communication)

The receiver's response to the sender's message, showing understanding and engagement.

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Communication Environment

The environment where communication takes place, influencing clarity and comfort.

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Verbal Communication

Words, both spoken and written, used to convey the message.

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Medical Jargon

Technical terminology used by healthcare professionals.

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Eye Contact

Eye contact, a powerful nonverbal cue, demonstrates respect and attentiveness in communication. Cultural differences must be taken into account when interpreting its meaning.

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Personal Space

Individual personal space is an invisible boundary that surrounds each person. Nurses often enter patients' personal space for caregiving purposes.

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Nurse-Health Care Team Relationships

Clear and effective communication with healthcare team members is essential for patient safety and a positive work environment.

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SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation)

SBAR, a standardized communication tool, helps ensure clear and concise information exchange between healthcare providers.

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Lateral Violence

Lateral violence among colleagues, such as withholding information, backbiting, or nonverbal disapproval, is unacceptable and detrimental to the work environment.

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Courtesy/Kindness

Courtesy and kindness are essential components of professional communication, fostering positive interactions with patients and colleagues.

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Use of Names

Addressing individuals by name shows respect for their uniqueness and dignity. Using first names may be appropriate for specific situations such as infants, confused patients, and close team members.

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Nonverbal Communication (Facial Expressions)

Nonverbal cues such as subtle changes in eye, lip, or facial movements can provide valuable insights into a patient's condition.

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Study Notes

Ethics in Communication and Nurse-Patient Relationships

  • Ethics in healthcare involves determining what's good for individuals and society.
  • The American Nurses Association (ANA) code provides a framework for professional nursing, including accountability, responsibility, advocacy, and confidentiality.
  • Key ethical principles in healthcare include autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice, and fidelity.
  • Values clarification is essential for resolving ethical dilemmas and considering differing opinions and values.
  • Ethical dilemmas frequently involve conflicting values and may require careful consideration of all parties' views.
  • Resolving ethical dilemmas is similar to the nursing process, which involves multiple steps to formulate effective solutions.

Basic Terms in Health Ethics

  • Autonomy: Patients are involved in all aspects of their care, including surgical procedures (risks & benefits). Informed consent documents this respect.
  • Beneficence: Taking positive actions to help others. Fundamental to nursing and medicine.
  • Non-maleficence: Doing no harm, the equal commitment to doing good in healthcare. Health professionals balance risks and benefits while minimizing harm.
  • Justice: Access to healthcare resources. Discussions related to health insurance, locations, services, and organ transplants often center on issues of justice.
  • Fidelity: Keeping promises. Nurses follow through on their actions and interventions as part of fidelity to patients.

Professional Nursing Code of Ethics

  • A code of ethics outlines guiding principles for all professionals in a given field, providing guidance during ethical dilemmas.
  • Codes guide professional groups when addressing questions about correct practices and behaviors.
  • The ANA developed the first code of ethics for nursing professionals decades ago.
  • Codes are reviewed and revised regularly to reflect changing practices.

Nursing Point of View

  • Nurses typically interact with patients over extended periods, potentially revealing details about their family lives, coping styles, preferences, fears, and insecurities.
  • Informing the instructor if the patient needs more pain medication is an example of an advocacy role.
  • Being responsible for administering the correct medication at the right time and dose, also in the proper manner is also a part of the responsibility of a nurse.

Processing Ethical Dilemmas

  • Ethical dilemmas cause distress and controversy for both patients and caregivers.
  • A sound approach to resolving ethical dilemmas involves considering different perspectives and facts, not just opinions and feelings.
  • Resolving ethical dilemmas is analogous to the nursing process, a structured approach.
  • Steps are involved: ask questions, gather information, clarify values, define the problem, identify solutions, reach agreement, then actively evaluate outcomes.

Issues in Health Care Ethics:

  • Quality of Life: Measures quantify the worth and benefits of healthcare treatments. Discussions related to futile care, assisted suicide, DNR orders, and cancer therapy frequently involve quality-of-life considerations.
  • Genetic Screening: Tests aid in identifying potential future health conditions. Ethical dilemmas may arise if tests results reveal potential conditions before the legal abortion period.
  • Care at the End of Life: Utilizing interventions and treatments deemed ineffective (futile) due to limited potential for benefit to the patient can present ethical questions.
  • Access to Care: Nurses consistently encounter ethical issues related to healthcare availability and access

Communication and Nursing Practice

  • Communication is a core part of patient-centered care, for acquiring useful patient data, and for supporting patient health goals.
  • Effective communication in healthcare settings is crucial to ensuring patient safety.
  • Communication breakdowns in healthcare settings can cause serious errors and threaten professional credibility.

Developing Communication Skills

  • Perception is influenced by sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell, and also by individual culture and education.
  • Effective communication techniques are easy to learn but can be difficult to apply in certain situations; one needs to determine the appropriate techniques for each unique nursing context.
  • Certain diagnoses, such as cancer or end-of-life issues, demand special communication strategies.

Levels of Communication

  • Interpersonal: One-on-one interaction
  • Small group: Goal-directed interactions among a limited number of people
  • Public: Interaction with a broad audience

Basic Elements of the Communication Process

  • Referent: The motivational impetus for communication.
  • Sender & Receiver: The sender encodes/transmits a message and the receiver decodes/interprets it.
  • Channel: The means through which the message is conveyed (visible, auditory, tactile, etc.)
  • Communication is a continuing, dynamic, and many-faceted process.
  • Feedback: The receiver's response that indicates understanding of the sender's message.
  • Environment: The physical and emotional context of the communication that affects interactions and outcome.

Forms of Communication

  • Verbal Communication: Includes vocabulary (specific medical terminology/jargon), pacing/tempo, clarity & brevity, timing & relevance.
  • Nonverbal Communication: Includes personal appearance, facial expressions, eye contact, personal space.
  • Nurse-Health Care Team Relationships: Communicating with colleagues requires careful use of common terminology, tools like SBAR, and an acknowledgment and rejection of lateral violence.

Elements of Professional Nursing Communication

  • Courtesy & Kindness: Demonstrating these (e.g. greetings, purpose statements) fosters effective communication, respect between parties, and reduces friction.
  • Use of Names: Introduce yourself professionally. Employing patients' names respects their dignity. Avoid demeaning labels.

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Test your knowledge on the critical aspects of communication and ethics in nursing. This quiz covers individual perceptions of information, communication challenges, and ethical dilemmas faced by healthcare professionals. Assess your understanding of how effective communication influences patient care.

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