Assignment : An Ethical Perspective

Assignment : An Ethical Perspective

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Week 2 discussion

An Ethical Perspective

Topic 1

Select an ethical theory or principle that is most congruent with your ethical views. Identify an ethical dilemma presented in your readings. Describe how you could utilize the selected theory to resolve the ethical dilemma. Explain if the selected ethical theory could continue to be upheld under the circumstances of the dilemma.

Topic 2

Examine one of the two models of socialization discussed in your readings and place yourself in one of the stages. Give your rationale for that placement. If none of the models or stages fits your experience, create your own model (or stage) and share it with the class.

Week 10 quiz

Question 1

A 15-year-old female presents with flank pain, irritability, malaise, and fever. Tests reveal glomerulonephritis. When the parents ask what could have caused this, how should the nurse respond?

Question 2

A 60-year-old male is diagnosed with renal failure. While the nurse is reviewing lab results, which of the following lab values would be most consistent with this diagnosis?

Question 3

A 7-year-old male presents to his primary care provider for incontinence. His mother indicates that he has never been continent. Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis the nurse will observe on the chart?

Question 4

If a nurse wants to obtain the best estimate of renal function, which test should the nurse monitor?

Question 5

When a patient’s renal system secretes rennin, what effect will that cause in the body? It causes the direct activation of:

Question 6

A 29-year-old female presents with cloudy urine, flank pain, hematuria, and fever. Which of the following does the nurse suspect the patient is most likely experiencing?

Question 7

A urologist is discussing the phagocytic cells that lie between the layers of the renal corpuscle. What is the urologist describing?

Question 8

While turning a patient with chronic renal failure, which principle should the nurse recall? Bone fractures are a risk factor in chronic renal failure because:

Question 9

A 42-year-old male is involved in a motor vehicle accident during which he loses a lot of blood. The nurse realizes he is in acute renal failure caused by:

Question 10

A nurse is describing the trigone. Which information should be included? The trigone is defined as:

Question 11

A 6-year-old male is experiencing urine reflux from the urinary bladder into a grossly dilated ureter and calyces. He was diagnosed with vesicoureteral reflux. This condition would be graded:

Question 12

When the nurse discusses the glomerulus and Bowman capsule together, it is referred to as the renal:

Question 13

On average the kidneys receive approximately _____ of the cardiac output.

Question 14

A 55-year-old male presents reporting urinary retention. Tests reveal that he has a lower urinary tract obstruction. Which of the following is of most concern to the nurse?

Question 15

A urologist is discussing a structure that supplies blood to the medulla. What is the urologist describing?

Question 16

When a child is admitted with acute renal failure, a clinician realizes the most common cause of acute renal failure is:

Question 17

Which of the following clusters of symptoms would make a clinician suspect a child has developed glomerulonephritis?

Question 18

A 30-year-old male is demonstrating hematuria with red blood cell casts and proteinuria exceeding 3 to 5 g/day, with albumin being the major protein. The most probable diagnosis the nurse will see documented on the chart is:

Question 19

A 45-year-old female presents with hypertension, anorexia, nausea and vomiting, and anemia. She is diagnosed with chronic renal failure. When the patient asks what caused this anemia, how should the nurse respond? Your anemia is caused by:

Question 20

A 27-year-old male has a severe kidney obstruction leading to removal of the affected kidney. Which of the following would the nurse expect to occur?

Question 21

When a nurse is checking the urinalysis, plasma proteins should be absent from the urine because: