Ethics & Nursing in Canada
Nursing Theory
Nursing Practice
Care and Culture
Critical thinking /Problem solving
100

This organization sets the standards of nursing education

What is the provincial regulators and associations

100

She is the founder of modern nursing is

Who is Florence Nightingale

100

This is a legal guideline for nursing practice

What is standard(s) of care

100

This term describes the cumulative emotional and psychological wounding over the lifespan and across generations, resulting from massive group trauma experiences.

What is historical trauma?

100

This knowledge is based on research or clinical expertise 

What is evidence informed knowledge (P175 P&P)
200

This characteristics of nursing in Canada today is traced back to Nightingale

What is a highly regarded /respected profession

200

This nurse theorist developed the "Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory," which emphasizes the patient's role in their own care.


  • Who is Dorothea Orem
200

For consent to be legally valid, one of these must be verified by a nurse. 

1. What is the patient has capacity to make a decision

2. What is consent is voluntary and without coercion

3. What is risk and benefits are understood  

200

This approach involves a lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and self-critique to address power imbalances and develop respectful partnerships.

What is cultural humility?

200

This involves evaluating a solution over time to ensure effectiveness

What is problem solving (P179 P&P)
300

The mandate of regulatory nursing organizations is to do this

Protection the public

300

This theory, proposed by Sister Callista Roy, focuses on how individuals adapt to changes in their environment

What is the Roy Adaptation Model?

300

By nature,  a patient trusting and disclosing personal information to a registered psychiatric nurse who is providing services to them, demonstrates this relationship.

What is a fiduciary relationship (p.101 P&P)

300

This term refers to the ability of healthcare providers to understand and respond effectively to the cultural and linguistic needs of patients.

What is cultural competence?

300

This is done by nurses to purposefully remember a situation in order discover its purpose or meaning 

What is reflection (p182 P&P)

400

How a psychiatric nurse show respect or how they behave with other people is an example of which ethical theory. 

What is relational ethics (p.92 P&P)

400

This theory, developed by Imogene King, focuses on the nurse-patient relationship and the setting of mutual goals.

What is the Theory of Goal Attainment?

400

A psychiatric nurse should do this when they do not understand a medication order by the psychiatrist/doctor 

What is contact the psychiatrist and clarify the order

400

Providing this type of support is crucial in patient-centered care to help patients cope with their illness and treatment.

What is emotional support?

400

The three specific critical thinking competencies in clinical situations 

What is diagnostic reasoning

What is clinical inferences 

What is clinical decision making 

p.179 P&P)

500

This number of steps are essential when analyzing an ethical dilemma 

What is seven ((p93 P&P)

500

Nursing theories provide this type of framework, guiding clinical practice, enhancing communication, and supporting research and education.

What is a theoretical framework?

500

This outlines the scope , function, and roles of a nurse in practice

What is standards of care (for nursing practice (p.102 P&P)

500

This principle of patient-centered care involves respecting and responding to individual patient preferences, needs, and values.

What is respect for patient preferences?

500

These are elements of the decision making process

What is interpretation, analysis inferences, evaluation, explanation, and self regulation (p.176 P&P)