All Free Nursing Management and Ethics MCQs with Answers

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  • A. External validity
  • B. Internal consistency
  • C. Inter-rater reliability
  • D. Researcher reflexivity

Explanation: External validity concerns how well findings can be generalised to other people, settings, or situations.

Correct answer: External validity
Moderate
  • A. Type I error
  • B. Type II error
  • C. Sampling error
  • D. Measurement error

Explanation: A Type I error occurs when a true null hypothesis is rejected, producing a false claim of an effect.

Correct answer: Type I error
  • A. Thematic analysis
  • B. Randomisation
  • C. Meta-analysis
  • D. Regression analysis

Explanation: Thematic analysis identifies, organises, and interprets recurring patterns or themes in qualitative data.

Correct answer: Thematic analysis
  • A. It prevents all data collection
  • B. It may create unequal groups
  • C. It guarantees selection bias is absent
  • D. It makes the study purely qualitative

Explanation: Assignment by clinic day is not random and may place people with different characteristics into the two groups.

Correct answer: It may create unequal groups
  • A. Selecting participants fairly from the eligible population
  • B. Giving the intervention only to senior staff
  • C. Withholding study information from participants
  • D. Allowing the researcher to change consent later

Explanation: Justice requires fair selection and fair distribution of the burdens and benefits of research.

Correct answer: Selecting participants fairly from the eligible population
Moderate
  • A. Replace every missing value with zero
  • B. Review the records and document missing data
  • C. Delete all questionnaires from the study
  • D. Enter the missing values as positive results

Explanation: The researcher should review the records, determine the extent and pattern of missing data, and document the handling plan before…

Correct answer: Review the records and document missing data
  • A. Apply it to every patient immediately
  • B. Compare it with patient needs and local resources
  • C. Ignore it because research cannot guide care
  • D. Use it only if the study had no limitations

Explanation: Evidence-based practice combines research evidence with clinical expertise, patient preferences, safety, and local resources.

Correct answer: Compare it with patient needs and local resources
  • A. Dorothea Orem
  • B. Florence Nightingale
  • C. Sister Callista Roy
  • D. Jean Watson

Explanation: Florence Nightingale developed the environmental theory, which links health with factors such as ventilation, cleanliness, light and…

Correct answer: Florence Nightingale
Very hard
  • A. Wholly compensatory system
  • B. Partly compensatory system
  • C. Supportive-educative system
  • D. Mutual adaptation system

Explanation: A wholly compensatory system is used when the patient cannot perform self-care and the nurse provides the needed care.

Correct answer: Wholly compensatory system
  • A. A distant financial concern
  • B. The immediate postoperative pain
  • C. A learned coping pattern
  • D. The patient's oxygen saturation

Explanation: The focal stimulus is the stimulus most immediately confronting the person, such as postoperative pain.

Correct answer: The immediate postoperative pain
Very hard
  • A. Intrapersonal stressor
  • B. Interpersonal stressor
  • C. Extrapersonal stressor
  • D. Normal line of defense

Explanation: An interpersonal stressor arises from interaction between people, such as family conflict.

Correct answer: Interpersonal stressor
  • A. Orientation, identification, exploitation, resolution
  • B. Assessment, diagnosis, planning, evaluation
  • C. Preparation, encounter, termination, follow-up
  • D. Dependence, independence, teaching, discharge

Explanation: Peplau described orientation, identification, exploitation and resolution as phases of the therapeutic relationship.

Correct answer: Orientation, identification, exploitation, resolution
  • A. Watson's theory of human caring
  • B. Orem's self-care deficit theory
  • C. Roy's adaptation model
  • D. Neuman's systems model

Explanation: Watson's theory emphasizes caring relationships, human dignity, presence and attention to the patient's subjective experience.

Correct answer: Watson's theory of human caring
Hard
  • A. A model gives a broad framework, while a theory gives related concepts and propositions
  • B. A model is used only in research, while a theory is used only in clinical care
  • C. A model contains no concepts, while a theory contains only measurable variables
  • D. A model describes one disease, while a theory describes every nursing procedure

Explanation: A conceptual model provides a broad, organized framework for viewing nursing phenomena.

Correct answer: A model gives a broad framework, while a theory gives related concepts and propositions
Very hard
  • A. Orientation phase
  • B. Identification phase
  • C. Exploitation phase
  • D. Resolution phase

Explanation: During orientation, the nurse and patient meet, identify the problem and clarify the purpose of the relationship.

Correct answer: Orientation phase
  • A. Maintaining fresh air and reducing unnecessary noise
  • B. Encouraging complete dependence on the nurse
  • C. Interpreting the illness as a role transition
  • D. Focusing mainly on the patient's unconscious conflict

Explanation: Nightingale emphasized ventilation, cleanliness, light, nutrition, warmth and a quiet environment to support healing.

Correct answer: Maintaining fresh air and reducing unnecessary noise
Hard
  • A. Wholly compensatory system
  • B. Partly compensatory system
  • C. Supportive-educative system
  • D. Environmental compensation system

Explanation: The supportive-educative system is appropriate when the patient can carry out self-care but needs teaching, guidance or support.

Correct answer: Supportive-educative system
  • A. The patient's ability to perform needed self-care
  • B. The nurse's skill in providing direct care
  • C. The health service's ability to prevent illness
  • D. The family's willingness to supervise treatment

Explanation: Self-care agency is the person's learned ability to meet self-care needs.

Correct answer: The patient's ability to perform needed self-care
Very hard
  • A. Physiological-physical mode
  • B. Self-concept mode
  • C. Role-function mode
  • D. Interdependence mode

Explanation: The physiological-physical mode concerns bodily processes and physical functioning, including movement and activity.

Correct answer: Physiological-physical mode
Hard
  • A. A flexible boundary that prevents all stressors
  • B. Internal defenses that support system stability
  • C. A fixed role pattern learned during childhood
  • D. A treatment plan selected by the nurse

Explanation: Lines of resistance are internal defenses that become active after a stressor passes the normal line of defense.

Correct answer: Internal defenses that support system stability